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Used for: 6–12 months
The fold line barely shows on the black one
Fingerprints show up instantly
Black hides the crease better than the red one my brother has, which is a daft reason to choose a colour but there it is
Used for: More than a year
Still the best thing in the house to read on
Kept as a spare after I moved to a work handset and it still gets picked up most evenings for reading. The battery has aged the way they all do, so a full day of use is now more like an afternoon, but as a device to sit and read on it has not been bettered.
Used for: More than a year
The hinge has not loosened at all
Hinges have taken a year and a half of daily folding without a squeak, and the screen protector that comes fitted has not lifted at the corners either.
Used for: 6–12 months
A4 documents fit without scrolling
The bezels look dated next to the price
Reads a full A4 page without scrolling, which is the whole reason it is in my bag!
Used for: 3–6 months
Storage goes quickly and the reader is awkward with it open
Five stars because nothing else does what this does, with a list of things to know before you spend the money. The half-terabyte fills faster than you think when every photo is a full-fat one. The case options are thin on the ground. And the fingerprint reader sits on the side edge, which is fine folded and awkward when the thing is open flat on a desk. None of that has stopped it being the device I reach for. Four months in and the novelty has worn off into plain usefulness.
Used for: More than a year
Sturdier than something this thin has any right to be
You will want to buy two and that is not cheap
Second one in this house now, my wife took the first and refused to give it back! Hers has been through a dropped-in-the-hall incident and the hinge is still true.
Used for: 3–6 months
The screen makes reading and typing genuinely comfortable
Comes loaded with apps you have to clear out yourself
Ordered this after four years on a Galaxy that had started shutting down at twenty per cent in the cold, and the deciding factor was the screen rather than the folding trick. Text at the size I want it, two columns of a document, and a keyboard that splits under the thumbs. Camera notes, since nobody covers the dim end properly: in a pub with the lamps down it holds detail on faces where my old phone smeared everything into soup, and daylight shots are more natural than the oversharpened look I was used to. Night mode still wants a steady hand for a couple of seconds. The mark comes off for software. It ships with a pile of apps I will never open, and clearing them out took an evening I would rather have spent elsewhere.
Used for: 6–12 months
Discreet enough for a work bag
The wide screen still catches people's attention
Went for the black over the red because it was going into a work bag and I did not want to explain it to anybody. It has come out of that bag every day since without a scratch on the outer panel, though the hinge has picked up a little grit!
Used for: 1–3 months
Holds a signal in a weak area
Charges slowly from a laptop port
Signal in our village is patchy at best and this holds two bars where the last handset showed none, which was not something I expected to be reviewing
Used for: 6–12 months
Nothing else on the market opens out this far
It is a heavy thing in a coat pocket
Weight is the only thing stopping me recommending it to everyone, otherwise it is remarkable