Plastic isn't as slippery as glass, and along with the squishiness of plastic, plastic adds resistance to your finger as you swipe around on your phone.Remember resistive touchscreens? Flexible plastic displays feel like that. Flexible thin plastic displays will squish and distort under your finger, which feels cheap and delicate.Plastic doesn't protect against pressure and punctures from debris on the inside or outside of the phone, making the phone more delicate. Plastic is easily scratched, which makes designs like the Mate X (with its wraparound exterior screen) really impractical.The Galaxy Fold, Moto Razr, and Huawei Mate X all use completely plastic touchscreens over top of their flexible displays, which is a solution with several negatives: The Galaxy Z Flip is the first phone to use Samsung's "Ultra-Thin Glass." While it doesn't live up to the hype Samsung initially built for the feature, it is a lot better than what's on the Galaxy Fold. The main display-better than plastic, not as good as Gorilla Glass The Z Flip quickly gives you a lot to think about-most prominently Samsung's foldable display technology improvements and this weird new form factor straight out of 1999. The new flip phone form factor is a cheaper way to get this foldable display technology out to consumers, but it doesn't offer much of a sales pitch as to why you'd want to spend a premium for this device. Samsung continues to make some old mistakes, and some new mistakes, but the end result is that the technology is still very expensive and unproven. That's not to say the Z Flip is a good foldable yet, but it's better than the complete failure that was the Galaxy Fold. This is an actual, viable product that the industry is slowly working towards improving.
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The Z Flip shows the foldables category isn't forever doomed to failures, delays, and recalls. Samsung has made some big technology improvements with the Z Flip, with a flexible glass display cover and some work toward dust ingress. And you know what? It really feels like it. Further Reading Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The future is an ugly disappointmentThe Fold had a very rocky life, and while it only launched about five months ago, that was after a six-month delay. So really, with the Z Flip being nearly a year removed from the original Fold launch date, you could say this is Samsung's second-generation foldable smartphone.