Z fold 2 owner here and I’m about to go on a rant regarding this thread. I actually purchased the fold 3 with a trade in and after watching this thread and similar ones in the xda forum I decided to return it before having to send in my fold 2. Imo I shouldn’t have to make ANY compromises with regards to battery life (ie leaving the phone in power saver mode, turning off this setting or that setting, changing wifi and bluetooth scanning, etc) in order to get through a full day on a $2000 phone. This phone cost way too much to not last through a full day if not longer. It should have had at least a 5000mah battery. Period. I’m also disappointed in the amount of money that I was asked to pay in order to get a new fold after trading in my old one to Samsung. If I was an s21 ultra owner and I was trading up toward the s22 ultra the most I’m probably paying is $300 to $400. Same scenario if I was an iPhone 12 pro max owner and I was trading in to get an iPhone 13 pro max. So why am I being asked to pay almost $900 for the new fold after trading in my fold 2? I should be getting more back from Samsung for a trade in since I am a loyal customer of the previous fold device. And yes I get that the $900 trade in credit for my fold 2 is more than Samsung offers for any other phone. My point is that’s still not enough toward the fold 3 considering all of the compromises that still exist with the fold 3. The battery life is worse overall that the previous fold, the cameras are still inferior to Samsung’s own top tier non-foldable phones, and there are still a lot of unknowns with foldable tech in general that makes a long-term investment into a fold a risky and potentially expensive endeavor. Don’t get me wrong, I love my fold 2. I’m an educator and the amount of productivity that it has brought me is something I’ve been unable to enjoy on any other phone I’ve ever had. Just a few days ago I had an issue in my classroom where the wifi at my campus temporarily went down during one of my class periods. I was in a situation where I needed to enter in student grades for an assignment at that moment and immediately get the assignment back to my students. My fold 2’s extra screen real estate made it easy for me to pull up the district grading program and enter in all of my grades within 5 minutes. Something that would’ve been very difficult to do with a regular, non-folding phone. Alas I’m just too worried to keep my fold 2 longer than it’s 1 yr warranty (I bought it in January) where the screen could crack from one more fold or unfold and then I’m stuck with an expensive screen repair or a phone that’s worth even less for trade in. I’m probably going to trade in my fold 2 for a new pixel 6 pro or the s22 ultra and just wait until a foldable phone comes out that doesn’t have so many compromises or that’s cheap enough to where I can live with the compromises. I will miss my fold though and I have a feeling in the long term that foldables are here to stay and Samsung will go down in history as playing a big part in making them mainstream for the masses. Ok rant over. Sorry for the long post.
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