Hey, wait a minute, that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is definitely simply two iPhones in a trench coat!

That’s the thought behind the newest replace to the Strive Galaxy net app, which, when operating on two iPhones, gives a Samsung One UI demonstration unfold throughout each screens. Samsung says it lets iOS customers check out the foldable’s advantages, like watching content material on an “immersive” display screen, or pattern productiveness options like dragging and dropping throughout each screens because of its multitasking talents — one thing Samsung does nicely and that even the iPad might use work on.

To make it occur, you simply need to go to the web site or scan a QR code on two iPhones, add the net app to your homescreen, after which tape them collectively (the tape is my very own advice) to begin folding to your coronary heart’s content material (by way of 9to5Google).

Samsung says the app additionally lets customers find out about Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold telephones via its “FlexCam expertise,” displaying them how with the ability to fold their telephone can seize “memorable moments in a wide range of artistic angles” or view selfies utilizing the duvet display screen discovered on the Z Flip — one thing the iPhone can’t simulate, since, you already know, it doesn’t fold and doesn’t have a display screen on the again.

I went forward and tried it out. Did it persuade me to change to the Z Fold 5? Properly, no… it’s a guided expertise that doesn’t provide you with a lot freedom, and it saved telling me I had an unstable community earlier than crashing. Perhaps I do, or perhaps it’s as a result of one of many telephones is operating the iOS 17 beta.

However displaying off the advantages of a folding telephone with an unbroken display screen throughout the entire thing by placing it on two separate telephones and simply hoping they’ll play good is a goofy thought. Particularly if you have already got an iPad, as a result of it actually finally ends up being extra of a Samsung pill demo, and never a really compelling one at that. Ultimately, it simply jogs my memory of early, gimmicky app retailer apps greater than something.

If you wish to strive it in your iPhones, right here’s the QR code. Have at it.

Replace Monday August 21, 2023, 3:25PM ET: Added particulars concerning the precise expertise after attempting it out.