To me, they've always seemed like an unnecessary reinvention of the wheel when it comes to smartphones - a strange feature added to an already-perfect device.

If staff were to recommend a Flip or Fold phone to me, I'd have dismissed it without a second thought - as I've been doing since I got my hands on the Samsung Galaxy S3 back in 2012.

Prior to that, it was all the hand-me-downs of durable Nokia and Sony Ericsson models that millennials might still recognise today.

For the past two years, I've been using a trusty Samsung Galaxy S22+, and while flip phones have always been an option, I've never actually tried one myself - until now.

When to hold, when to fold

Every phone can be folded if you try hard enough, but thankfully the new Galaxy Z Flip 6, launched in Singapore in July this year, is meant to be folded in half.

This new device starts at $1,648 on the Samsung store and can cost up to $1,828 depending on storage size.

The first thing that came to my mind was how long the phone was - although its breadth is shorter than the S22+, it's still noticeably taller than the device I currently use.

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