While both phones have a foldable design, the specific look and feel is different for each. The Z Flip 4 is a clamshell-style flip phone popularized by Motorola’s Razr. It’s compact, nostalgically cool, and targets online content creators, among other demographics. The Z Fold 4, on the other hand, is Samsung’s heaviest foldable book. It’s almost twice the height of the Z Flip 4 when both are folded “closed”. When unfolded, the Z Fold 4 expands to an internal tablet-sized display that Samsung says is a powerful multitasking tool, boosted by 12GB of RAM.

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With the Z Fold 4’s larger size (and higher price), comes a matching set of features. There are three rear cameras including a telephoto lens, compared to just two on the Z Flip 2. The Z Fold 4 also manages to squeeze in a bigger battery. Their front screens are also different. The Z Flip 4 has a tiny display on the bottom of the cover, which Samsung has made more useful with this iteration. The Z Fold 4’s screen is almost the size of a regular phone screen. Despite their physical differences, perhaps Samsung’s greatest flexibility has been software, and changes have affected both new models. Like the Z Fold 4, the Flip 4 features the bottom screen trackpad in Flex mode — that’s the feature that splits apps between the top and bottom of the screen when it’s folded in half. With the updates, you’ll be able to use the bottom half of the screen as a touchpad to navigate the top portion of the screen, supposedly making it easier to handle apps in Flex Mode. Each model also gets night photography improvements introduced with the Galaxy S22, including portrait night mode photos. These changes seem to underscore Samsung’s efforts to convince buyers to switch to a foldable phone — or at least generate some interest in one. For more on how the Z Flip 4 stacks up against the Z Fold 4, check out CNET’s specs sheet below for a side-by-side comparison.

Z Fold 4 vs Z Flip 4

                                                                        Galaxy Z Fold 4 5G Galaxy Z Flip 4 Screen Size, Resolution, Aspect Ratio Internal: 7.6-inch AMOLED (2176 x 1812 pixels) External: 6.2-inch HD Plus (2316 x 904) Main Screen: 6.7-inch FHD0 x 6 + (2, 1080 pixels; 22:9) Cover display: 1.9 inches (260×512 pixels) Pixel density TBC TBC Dimensions (Kilometers) Folded: 67.1×155.1×15.8 mm (Marche) ~14.2 mm (Climate).  Unfolded: 130.1×155.1×6.3mm Folded: 71.9×84.9×17.1mm (Hanging) ~15.9mm (Hanging).  Unfolded: 71.9×165.2×6.9mm Weight (Ounces, Grams) 9.27 oz;  263 gr…