Samsung's latest take on the traditional flip phone is an all-around improvement. They've been wildly expensive - costing way more (sometimes double) than non-flipping flagship smartphones that typically top out at around $1,000 - while also sacrificing the flagship-quality things you want, like a good camera or brilliant display.īut not the Galaxy Z Flip3.
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Forget about the well-publicized issues from Samsung's and Microsoft's previous attempts (like cracked screens, creaking creases and failed durability tests) the biggest caveat with these new-age flip phones has been price. They are a part-gift-part-stimulus for the entire ecosystem of accessory makers that has evolved inside Apple’s walled garden it’s no accident AirTags don’t have a hole for a simple keyring.įlip phones have been trying to capture nostalgia and make a comeback for the last several years, but they've been plagued with problems. They’re a way to absorb the burgeoning markets of item-tracking pioneers like Tile without the trouble of an acquisition. They’re an impulse buy-sized way for iPhone owners to bury themselves a little more irrevocably in Apple’s ecosystem of devices and services. A way to make sure you never misplace your wallet, or remote, or backpack or whathaveyou ever again.īut maybe even more impressive is the purposes they serve for the trillion dollar tech company itself. There are the obvious applications for end users, of course: They help you find your most important belongings by relaying their precise location through Apple’s ever-growing “Find My” network. And it’s that sweet combination of features that makes it such a rockstar.įor a tiny, Mentos-sized gadget with no moving parts, buttons or screens to speak off, Apple’s AirTags are working towards an astonishing variety of ends. It’s larger 55-inch cousin isn’t that much harder to find on the other side of a grand. But in practice, it’s no struggle to find one for under 1K. The cheapest, smallest 48-inch model stops short of doing that limbo.
No, LG’s list prices don’t cross that Rubicon. Where 4K OLEDs have historically been just pricey enough to make the average buyer think twice, the LG A1 has encroached on no-brainer territory: the $1,000 price point. What makes it so notable is the price point. Likewise, OLED technology - with its individually-lit pixels that lend themselves to the crispest contrast owing to deep, inky blacks - is the standout standard for the ideal picture.
Years on from its initial rollout, 4K has reached its saturation point, and the LG A1 naturally boasts this now standard resolution.
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As far as group number two goes, the LG A1 Series is a lowkey luminary, ruling with an iron fist of pure practicality. Secondly, there are the ones you might actually buy. Bigger than your living room wall, they loop viciously vivid demo footage so sharp it could cut you - all five minutes of it that exists at such ridiculous resolution. First are the big flashy showpieces, designed first and foremost to melt eyes out of sockets at trade shows and on storefront displays. HDR Format: Dolby Vision, HDR 10, Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG)