When comparing smartphones and tablets in terms of work efficiency, it is not difficult to see that the tablet will be the dominant device. With a larger screen, longer battery life, plus the support of some accessories such as a removable keyboard or a pen; tablet will help users work much faster and more productive.
However, compared to smartphones, tablets have a clear disadvantage that users cannot put it in their pockets and carry it everywhere. This makes users crave a device as compact as a smartphone, but with the same functionality as a tablet.
This dream comes true, as Samsung pioneers in the development and production of foldable smartphones, starting with the Galaxy Fold in 2019 and now the latest generation of Galaxy Z Fold2. Galaxy Z Fold2 has a compact size like a traditional smartphone and can fit in a pocket, but when folded, it has a screen up to 7.6 inches, equivalent to a small tablet.
So, how will a folding screen smartphone like the Galaxy Z Fold2 perform when compared to a real tablet like the iPad? Let’s compare the experience between Galaxy Z Fold2 and iPad in some basic work tasks below.
Surfing the web
The huge 7.6-inch screen size alone is enough for Z Fold2 to provide a superior web surfing experience compared to all other smartphones on the market today. But not stopping there, Z Fold2 also has another extremely beneficial advantage, which is the square screen ratio, asymptotic to 4:3 standard like the iPad.
This is the “golden” ratio for web surfing, because it helps users to read more information without having to scroll continuously like the long ratio of traditional smartphones. In addition, its square ratio allows users to activate the desktop version of the website while the font size is still large enough to read comfortably, providing more value than the mobile version. often shortened.
Besides web content, Samsung’s web browser interface is also optimized to take advantage of the large screen of the Z Fold2. In particular, the most useful is a dedicated tab bar like on a computer, and users can easily switch between tabs with just one touch.
Read document files: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Reading office files is probably the most common task when it comes to the working aspect of a smartphone. However, over the years, no smartphone has been able to do this job well, no matter how large the screen. The reason also comes from their long screen ratio, when it not only causes users to scroll continuously, but also is too narrow to fully display some content like Excel spreadsheets.
With the iPad and Z Fold2, once again the square screen ratio of these two devices makes the user experience significantly enhanced. For Word documents, users can view the content in a very comfortable way with large font sizes and images. For Excel spreadsheets, users can view the entire spreadsheet without being confined like on smartphones. As for PowerPoint presentations, not only the slide content is clearly shown, but users also have a list of thumbnails on the side to quickly switch back and forth.
On today’s smartphones, checking mail is a series of repetitive actions. Users will open a mail-reading application, scroll through an inbox, touch a certain mail to read, then return to the inbox to find and read the next mail. For those who only receive a few emails a day, this process shouldn’t be too much of a problem. However, for those who consider email the “backbone” of their work and have to deal with a huge amount of mail daily, it’s clear that having to switch back and forth between inbox and message body can quickly become annoying.
On large screen devices such as iPad or Galaxy Z Fold2, developers have taken measures to optimize the mail application interface to provide a better experience. Specifically, the mail application will be divided into two columns, in which the left column is the mailing list, and the right column displays the mail content. Users will be able to check their inbox and read email content much faster and more efficiently than traditional methods.
“Check chart”
Currently, a lot of people are investing in some fields such as stocks or cryptocurrencies, leading to the need to monitor market movements anytime, anywhere to quickly make timely decisions.
If users only need to quickly check the price of the coins or stocks they are holding, the current smartphone can do a relatively good job of this task, especially when the major exchanges have applications for smartphones. However, for traders (exchangers), it is clear that they need a larger space to be able to look at the chart and identify the trend of that coin or stock. At this point, a large screen device will become very useful.
It is quite strange that Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world and also the most popular in Vietnam, does not have an iPad application. Users will be forced to use a magnified version of the iPhone app, which doesn’t offer any advantages over using the phone. Meanwhile on the Z Fold2, the Binance app, although still based on the phone version, can be stretched to provide a much better experience than the iPad.
Multitasking
Not only does it provide a better experience in single apps, but the Galaxy Z Fold2 also allows users to multitask with multiple apps at the same time. Similar to iPad, Galaxy Z Fold2 can display two applications at the same time in a split-screen format. This is an extremely convenient feature that greatly improves workability. For example, users can surf the web while taking notes, or texting and checking their work schedule at the same time.
Galaxy Z Fold2 – the perfect smartphone for people of work
In 2011, when the phrase “working” on a smartphone simply included sending and receiving email, the launch of the Galaxy Note with its large screen and S-Pen was considered a breakthrough. big break. Since then, Samsung smartphones have always been rated as the top choice for workaholics.
However, now with the Galaxy Z Fold2, the ability to work on mobile devices has once again been redefined by Samsung. Through the above examples, it can be seen that the Galaxy Z Fold2 offers a productive working experience like a tablet, while maintaining the mobility of a smartphone. The barriers that users once encountered on traditional smartphones have now been completely removed, thereby helping the Galaxy Z Fold2 become a true “mobile office”.