Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 don become one of our favourite smartphones ever, but for some areas e still feel like first-gen device.
One of our main issues with the Fold 8 na speaker placement, and e look like Apple take notes. Apple just announce iPhone Duo as im first-ever foldable phone, and e sure look like interesting Galaxy Z Fold 8 rival.
Plenty things dey to talk about, but speaker placement be the thing wey catch attention of some of us Fold 8 users. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 audio issue, apart from tinny-sounding speakers, na speakers placement. Both speakers dey embedded inside cover screen half of the phone. One speaker dey top, the other dey bottom.
Samsung speaker placement works perfectly fine when you dey view content in landscape mode on cover screen. However, once you unfold phone into landscape mode, you go notice say both speakers now dey fire from left side, almost negating phone stereo capabilities.
Apple brand-new iPhone Duo also get two speakers: one at top and the other at bottom when you use phone folded in portrait mode. Wetin different na say each speaker dey located on opposite half of iPhone Duo. One dey bottom of phone camera half, and the other dey top of cover display half, instead of both being embedded inside cover display frame.
For practical terms, when you dey use iPhone Duo unfolded as tablet in landscape mode, one speaker dey fire from upper-left side, and the other dey fire from lower-right side. Apple show screenshot of how e present this characteristic.
iPhone Duo speaker placement still no perfectly symmetrical, but this layout suppose provide better stereo separation than Galaxy Z Fold 8 solution. All in all, this no be something truly innovative, and we no know how iPhone Duo speakers actually sound. But e be something we don wish Fold 8 had weeks before Apple announce iPhone Duo.
Apple speaker placement feel like natural conclusion, and e be small head-scratcher how Samsung no fit reach same conclusion while designing Fold 8. Or maybe e reach am and get other Fold 8 design constraints to worry about. Whatever case be, iPhone Duo do speaker placement better than Galaxy Z Fold 8.
