There’s no other phone I’d rather be using right now than Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7—and that’s a problem.

I’ve been a foldable phone appreciator for a while now, and a couple of years ago, I caved and bought a Galaxy Z Fold5 for my own personal use. The phone was far from perfect, but I loved being able to conjure a small tablet from my pocket to watch videos, read e-books, and multitask.

Two years later, it is really hard going back to that phone—or to any non-foldable phone, for that matter. Using the Fold7 on loan from Samsung has emphasized just how compromised those earlier efforts were, and it makes those prior shortcomings a lot harder to overlook.

It’s a normal-size phone now

Unlike a lot of other reviewers, I never hated the narrow outer screen on Samsung’s previous foldables.

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