Samsungβs Galaxy Z Flip 6 has arrived, and despite costing $100 more, it feels like an incredibly iterative update.
I have a 5. Now that the new Razr+ is out, and they seem to have addressed most of the previous issues, thatβs the one Iβll be looking at next.
Why? Samsung software. Itβs pervasive and hard to remove, or even often just to disable. And Samsung collects all of the data. Itβs crazy how much is shipped back to Samsung servers.
If you donβt care about that kind of thing, the hardware is nice. But Iβm looking elsewhere for my next flip phone.
Is Motorola any better? I kinda assume theyβre all doing that at this point. Because why wouldnβt they?
Motorolaβs software is a lot less intrusive. Off the top of my head there is not a single important feature I can think of which is locked behind a Motorola account (though I am yet to get the Android 14 and Hello UI update, so Iβm not sure if that changed things), whereas Samsung forces you to create and login to a Samsung account to access many of the features which make One UI so customisable. You can disable/uninstall/not create an account to minimise data leakage but then youβre missing out on some of the stuff which makes Samsung phones particularly good (like Good Lock).