Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 Graygreen 256GB

The Galaxy Z Fold4 is a multitasking monster with a gorgeous 7.6-inch folding screen and IPX8 water resistance, but its camera and battery life are just average. Prices are all over the map, from $354 to $1,926, so don't you dare pay retail. Buy it if you'll actually use the big screen for work, otherwise get a standard flagship with a better camera.

The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 inside the Fold4 is no slouch, but it's also not the newest kid on the block anymore. In our database, raw performance sits around the 40th percentile, which is solidly middle of the pack compared to the latest flagships. For day-to-day tasks, you won't notice this at all. The 12GB of RAM keeps apps in memory like a champ, and flipping between a video call and a spreadsheet in Multi-View Window feels smooth and genuinely useful. The phone handles the multitasking tricks Samsung built for it without breaking a sweat.

Where you'll feel the age is in heavy gaming or any sustained workload. The thin chassis doesn't have the thermal headroom of a traditional slab phone, so the chip has to throttle back sooner to keep cool. It's not a gaming phone, and it doesn't pretend to be. For the productivity-focused user this is aimed at, the performance is more than adequate. Just don't expect it to top benchmark charts against a dedicated gaming rig or the latest iPhone.

The most direct competitor to the Fold4 is the Motorola razr ultra 2025, which takes the opposite approach by folding down into a smaller footprint instead of unfolding into a tablet. The razr is more pocketable and typically cheaper, but you lose the big screen real estate that makes the Fold4 special. If you just want a phone that fits in tiny pockets, get the razr. If you want a mini tablet that folds into a phone, the Fold4 is your pick. The Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and OnePlus 15 are both traditional slab phones that will absolutely smoke the Fold4 in camera quality and battery life, while costing about the same or less.

The Google Pixel 10a and Nothing Phone (4a) Pro are in a different league entirely on price, often half the cost of a used Fold4. They'll give you better cameras and cleaner software, but they can't unfold into a 7.6-inch screen. That's the whole ballgame. You're buying the Fold4 for the form factor. If you don't need a folding screen, literally any other flagship will serve you better in battery, camera, and raw performance. The Fold4 is a specialist's tool, not an all-rounder.

Talking about value on a phone that can cost nearly two grand is tricky. The price range we're seeing is absurd, from a sketchy-low $354 to a wallet-melting $1,926. If you can find a clean, unlocked unit on the lower end of that spectrum, the value proposition flips completely. At under $800, you're getting a tablet and a phone in one device with a feature set that's still in the 98th percentile. That's a steal. At full retail near $1,900, you're paying a massive early-adopter tax for a chip that's a generation old and a camera that's frankly mediocre.

Our advice is to ignore the MSRP and shop the actual street price. The sweet spot seems to be in that $600-$900 range where the Fold4 starts to make sense against a standard flagship. You're trading camera quality and battery life for that big folding screen, and only you can decide if that trade is worth it. Just don't pay full price for this in 2025.

The Galaxy Z Fold4 is Samsung's swing at making a folding phone that's less of a science project and more of a daily driver. We're talking about a device that goes from a chunky but usable 6.2-inch cover screen to a full 7.6-inch mini tablet when you unfold it. It's built for the person who genuinely wants to do more on their phone, the kind of user who reads documents, juggles two apps at once, or just wants a bigger canvas for scrolling through Twitter without squinting. This isn't a phone for everyone, and the price tag makes sure of that, but it's the most polished attempt at this form factor we've seen yet.

Samsung packed in a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip, 12GB of RAM, and a 50MP main camera, all wrapped in an IPX8 water-resistant body. That water resistance is a big deal, it means you can actually take this thing out in the rain or, as one customer pointed out, go swimming with it without a panic attack. The feature set lands it in the 98th percentile in our database, which basically means it's loaded. But specs on paper and real life don't always line up, and the Fold4 has some clear trade-offs you need to know about before dropping nearly two grand.

We've seen the price on this thing swing wildly from $354 all the way up to $1,926 across different vendors, so shopping around is non-negotiable. The sweet spot for this phone is the multitasker who lives in their calendar, email, and a notes app simultaneously. If that sounds like you, the Fold4 might just change how you work on the go. If you're mostly taking photos and scrolling Instagram, there are much better, much cheaper slabs of glass out there.

If photography is a top priority for you, look elsewhere. The Fold4's camera scored a mediocre 50.3 out of 100 in our tests, which is frankly embarrassing for a phone in this price bracket. You can get a Pixel 10a for half the price that will run circles around this thing in photo quality. The camera isn't bad in a vacuum, but it's bad for the money, and that's what matters.

Also skip this if you're a heavy gamer or someone who needs all-day battery without thinking about it. The 4400mAh battery is powering two screens, and it shows. Raw performance is middle of the pack, so demanding 3D games will run fine but not spectacularly, and the phone will get warm. If you're not going to use the folding screen for productivity multitasking on a regular basis, you're just carrying a heavy, expensive phone with a crease for no reason. Get a OnePlus 15 or an iPhone 16 Pro Max instead.

If you're a productivity nut who lives in Outlook, OneNote, and Teams simultaneously, the Fold4 is still a compelling buy in 2025, provided you find it at a good price. The big screen genuinely changes how you interact with your phone, and Flex Mode is one of those features you don't think you need until you're on a video call while cooking dinner. The S Pen support, while requiring a separate purchase, turns this into a legit note-taking machine that fits in your jacket pocket. For the right user, this phone is a revelation.

For everyone else, skip it. The camera is a letdown for the price, the battery life is just okay, and the weight is something you'll notice every single time you pick it up. If you're not going to use the folding screen for multitasking at least a few times a day, you're carrying around a heavy, expensive phone with a crease in the middle for no good reason. Grab a Pixel 10a or an iPhone 16 Pro Max and call it a day. But if you know you'll use that big screen, and you can snag one for under $900, the Fold4 is still one of the most unique and useful phones you can buy.