Samsung Offers iPhone Users To Try Out Z Fold5 By… Stacking Two iPhones Side-By-Side
Samsung Offers iPhone Users To Try Out Z Fold5 By… Stacking Two iPhones Side-By-Side
Smartphone marketing comes in all kinds of ways – some successful, others not. This particular marketing exercise from Samsung to promote its foldable Z Fold5 smartphone is intriguing, to say the least. The exercise involves two iPhone users, a webapp (on both devices), and perhaps the wildest part: have them placed side-by-side to get the “foldable” experience.
The whole ordeal goes like this: head to this website and scan the QR code on both iPhones. What you’d end up with is each iPhone will be displaying half of what the Z Fold5 would display in its entirety through its inner display, though aesthetically it’s more akin to Microsoft’s Surface Duo smartphone that technically doesn’t count as a true foldable (it’s two inner displays occupying each side, with a narrow bezel in the middle between two displays).
The neat part however, is through this exercise Samsung lets you peek through its OneUI interface – including using some of the apps that comes with the actual Z Fold5 itself, and perform multitasking actions such as drag-and-drop, and more. Somehow, FlexCam made its way into the simulated interface, which you wouldn’t be able to actually try since no iPhones (or any Apple device for that matter) contain a secondary, outer display.
Samsung explicitly says this is only intended for iPhone users – so if you’re owners of non-foldable Android phones, you’re out of luck. Maybe get two of your friends who owns iPhones to try it out, or perhaps just head to any stores to see the Z Fold5 for yourself (which is probably easier, anyway).
Source: 9to5Google | The Verge
Pokdepinion: Oddly interesting marketing exercise, to say the least – I’d actually like to try it, except I don’t own iPhones. Bummer.
