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I've been an iPhone user for a long time now, but last month I switched over from my iPhone 14 Pro Max to this Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, with no intention of moving back.

I made an entire video when it launched showing you how it's Samsung's biggest upgrade yet, and I genuinely thought that this was going to be it, That this was the phone that was finally going to convert me back to being a Samsung user once again.

And on the way, I've learned a lot about the state of Android vs iOS in 2023, how Samsung's touches help or hinder that, and what a foldable phone is really like versus a normal bar phone to live with.

So let's start with the setup process, because it starts out fantastic.

It tells you to connect both phones via a cable and you'll be good to go in 30 minutes.

And even WhatsApp, the single most historically difficult app to transfer, now has a move to Android button baked in.

But then the first problem arose, it wouldn't detect the cable.

I went through 4 cables before it finally recognised 1, and then when it worked it only partially transferred apps with very little app data.

of the stuff like contacts came in dribs and drabs, with some having to then be transferred again later with the wireless method, and WhatsApp just altogether refused.

This transfer, no joke, it became my and Drish's evening project every day for the entire first week, just to try

And for the time being, what I've resorted to is to just link WhatsApp on my new Z Flip to the main WhatsApp account that's still active on my iPhone.

that means is that I'm effectively still piggybacking off the iPhone and still need to use it once every 14 days

so that I can stay logged in on my Samsung.

Now, all of this hassle is definitely partly Samsung's fault for making a smart switch app that isn't very smart at switching.

But it wouldn't be fair to give them all the blame.

I mean, you'll have trouble switching from iPhone to any Android nowadays, simply because Apple is now more and more tying every single iPhone app and feature into your Apple ID, effectively increasing the friction that would come from exiting that bubble.

So this transition was off to a rough start, but the software actually really turned things around for me.

And you rarely feel when you're using an iPhone like it's lacking, but it's only when you move over to Android after a long time being

on iPhone that you re-appreciate all of those,

So Samsung, for example, has a suite of apps called Good Lock, And it gives you a level of control so absolutely insane you could spend weeks optimising every single key of your keyboard, or adding in instant shortcuts to popular phrases.

You can craft every aspect of your own motion wallpaper, and you can not just apply icon packs,

I decided quite early on that this phone reminds me of a banana, so I went all in on that.

And what's really refreshing about using an

Android again is that when you have those little niggles, which I did, like how if you want to search for an app on Samsung's default home screen, you have to execute some pretty advanced finger gymnastics, Or how I've got so used to flicking down the control panel on my iPhone to change brightness in 1 swipe, which again is not the case here.

In almost all cases, it's just a case of finding the right app or setting and you can fix them.

from iPhone to Android, it felt relieving to not be so locked into 1 way of doing things.

Like I remember getting really annoyed earlier this year.

I'd taken some hour long time lapses on my iPhone and for some reason, maybe the files were too large, AirDrop kept failing.

And it also wasn't syncing to my Mac via Apple Photos, which is how you normally have to transfer videos.

And all I could think in that moment was, I wish this was an Android for like 10 minutes just so I could plug it in, go into the Android folder directory, and just drag and drop the files I needed to my computer.

Only thing that really does feel like a downgrade here is the face unlock.

I'm used to using Apple's face ID for everything and it's so reliable and so good that you start to forget it's there.

Samsung's face unlock isn't as secure, so you can't use it to authenticate as many things.

It needs you to be closer, It's a little bit slower, and since it's not using infrared, but your actual cameras to snapshot your face, which means it's A, affected by light.

So when you try and do this at night, the phone will actually blast you with enough of it to wake you right back up.

And B, affected by the quality of those cameras, meaning that it works pretty reliably when folded, cause you've got a good set of cameras there, but then noticeably less well when unfolded, as you have to rely on this tiny sensor.

You can just use the fingerprint scanner, but it leads me onto what I would call a pretty major issue.

When I first saw this phone, I thought, this is amazing.

You can zip the phone out, you can double tap and get high quality selfies taken with a proper set of cameras.

The same set of proper cameras that you can also use for taking rear photos.

And in some ways, this feeling was spot on.

The fact that when the phone's folded up, its primary set of cameras are already facing you, that's really powerful because it makes them the default option.

It creates a situation where the quickest way to take a selfie is also the best way to take a selfie.

you can also use these cameras while propping

And they've made the navigation really natural too.

You just swipe to flick modes and you tap the screen to start recording.

I love how Samsung makes faces look both crisp but at the same time flattering.

And to be fair also, thanks to some pretty smart AI, the phone's ability to zoom in is not as bad as you might think given that it has no actual zoom camera.

But everything else is a little disappointing.

I mean for starters, while this whole time I've seen it as 1 massive perk that

Until I actually used it for a prolonged period of time,

I completely neglected the con that also comes with this, in that in its default position, you have no rear camera.

Anytime you want to take a video of what's in front of you with 1 hand.

It is, tilt the phone up, find a way to wedge your thumb in, which is pretty difficult considering there's almost no gap.

Now, I'll push it all the way, rotating your finger because you're conscious not to dig your nails into the fragile, foldable screen.

Half the time I then accidentally opened this menu, so close that and then press and swipe out for the camera, followed by a final swipe to get to video.

Now, I'm dramatising this a little bit to make the point, but when you're getting your phone out for the 40th time in a day, which I was just yesterday because I was out viewing houses and needed to take photos of every single room, you really do start to think, Ugh, this whole opening and closing thing, it's effort.

And that what a phone like this really needs is a button that can automatically flip the phone into its fully unfolded position.

And then even when you do unfold it, the video quality itself is not that great.

Now I did go into this knowing that I'd be taking a hit when it comes to video.

But even with that, it doesn't feel good when you film in those middle lighting conditions, which you think should be fine for a thousand dollar phone, and then you check the footage afterwards and you realise they're covered in a sheet of green.

Plus, what's really easy to overlook, and something that I don't even consider on first impression, is that while you do get a set of cameras on the front, there is no microphone that faces you.

So you end up with this really weird trade-off where you can either have good video,

but mediocre audio when you're using this,

or you can have good audio and then mediocre video because this inner selfie camera has a microphone directly above it.

And let's be very clear, I'm not exaggerating the quality difference between these 2 sets of cameras.

Anyone can tell that one's good and one's not.

And to be honest, cameras aren't even the only area where you feel the teething problems of foldable phones right now.

But if you're enjoying this video then a sub to the channel would be...

Now don't get me wrong, there have been plenty of moments where I've discovered some new niche nifty perk from the fact that my phone can bend.

Like how often when I film I keep my phone on my desk and sometimes pick it up to remind me what I wanted to say.

the top half and I can see it without even picking it up.

Or how like a couple of times when I've taken video calls, this new even sturdier hinge is the reason that I've been able to take them hands-free and actually cook something at the same time.

And it's in these specific moments that you feel that little validation for straying away from the beaten path and actually choosing a phone that's a bit different.

But what's made this such a bittersweet experience is that for every single 1 of these moments, where you start to question why you didn't start using foldables earlier, something else will very shortly come up to remind you.

Like the fact that the top half of your screen on its own is not really big enough to do anything with.

It fits such little information on it that I started to find I was scrolling twice as often and that I was actually just better off using a bigger phone and propping it up against something.

1 of the things I was really excited about with this was the possibility of being able to watch content in any situation and actually have a great viewing experience because the angle of the phone can be adjusted.

But it only took 2 days of me trying to make this work for me to decide, actually, this doesn't make any sense.

The amount of horizontal room you have to display a video on this folded screen is so tiny that I'd literally be squinting to try and see what's happening.

And so the compromise I've ended up with is using a slight bend to allow the phone to stand up sideways.

So you can still get that full screen experience and prop your phone up without using a separate stand, but you just lose what was really exciting about this, which is being able to adjust the angle.

And then the other annoying part of this is that when the phone is fully open, it's too tall.

If most YouTube videos on a normal phone fill 80% of

and that if you try and enlarge it, you're going to lose so much information on the top and

the bottom that it's kind of unwatchable.

yeah, and there's also the really obvious crease, which to be

to, but it just makes the phone a bit less cool.

And it does also pose a practical problem

if you're trying to watch videos on it with other people, because for whoever's watching from an angle, you will basically just see a big line over your content.

Battery life on the other hand, pleasant surprise.

It's not even been close to an issue for me.

It sounds bad on paper with its 3, 700 milliamp hour cell, but 2 things, A, I'm spending a third of my time with this phone on this tiny cover screen, which is pretty conservative on battery, and B, the fact that the cover screen is the default has 100% definitely reduced the total time I spend on my phone.

It's created far more of a barrier between receiving a notification and then getting lost in an app that I didn't even realise why I clicked.

I'll normally keep the phone folded up on the desk I work on, and then if I get like a WhatsApp, I flick to the side, I tap it to make sure it's not urgent, and then just turn the phone back off.

I've said this from the very beginning, and I stand by it in the long term, that this ability to create separation between the utility of a phone and the distraction that usually comes with that, that is the single biggest perk of these Z flip phones.

Is it going to be the 1 to replace the iPhone?

the niggles that come with it being a foldable, part of it is the pretty severe camera downgrade, but a big part of it is also the ecosystem.

So I'm actually not really fussed whether my phone is an Android or an iPhone, but the 1 thing that is a non-negotiable for me is that my computer has to be a Mac.

For my needs, the fluidity of the Final Cut Pro editing program and the massive lead-in battery life that Macs have right now over Windows, these 2 are both critical because I'm constantly traveling and I'm constantly trying to work while traveling.

There are workarounds for almost every single feature, but I have felt the lack of ease.

If you want to wirelessly transfer between these 2, I mean, most guides seem to recommend AirDroid, but it puts ads right in your face, needs a monthly subscription, and also still has a file size limit, even if you pay.

There's WarpShare, which can actually fool your Mac into thinking you're sending from an iPhone, but only works 1 way.

And so the best option seems to be SnapDrop, which looks like AirDrop and even feels like AirDrop in that you're just browsing your files, you tap share, you click via SnapDrop and then tap on your

It's slower than AirDrop, you have 1 extra press on the Mac of having to click download after the transfer's complete, and it also will not continue if you move really far away, like AirDrop does now.

being able to take my phone calls on my laptop automatically like I used to be able to with my iPhone.

It was so handy because it removes that anxiety of always needing to sit within hearing distance of your phone in case someone tries to get in touch.

They still work, but just as basic Bluetooth earbuds without a lot of their key perks, like automatically pausing when you take 1 bud out.

There's a few more instances like this, of the difficulties you get when trying to fit Samsung into an Apple ecosystem, but the point is, mildly inconvenient, not insurmountable, and I'd be willing to put up with it if the rest of the phone had impressed me more.

Because as well as all the other difficulties, I've also noticed the signal doesn't seem as strong as it does on my iPhone, potentially since there's more layers to travel through when folded.

The speakers aren't as loud or as bassy, presumably because they've had

the phone slimmer and the Z Flip gets pretty hot,

especially when charging or using a mobile hotspot, with my theory being that it's more cubic shape when folded, reducing the surface area for heat to escape, plus cooling just generally not being a priority here.

Now, as well as this phone, the other thing I've spent a long time using recently is the Opera desktop browser.

So yesterday I was on an Amazon shopping spree, getting all my shampoos and creams in 1 go.

And then immediately, the second I decided that I wanted to go over and do some scripting, I tap this button and every Amazon tab collapses into this 1 little thing, so I have a completely decluttered workspace.

2, the fact that AI is literally at your fingertips.

Let's say you're researching and you want to ask a really specific question to learn more about something.

You just use command and slash, paste or type your query, and just hit enter.

And I really like the fact that this AI is there when you want it and just disappears when you don't.

The fact that your social medias are baked into the sidebar, the free VPN, the free ad blocker, and the silky smooth animations made possible by a separate software layer that handles them.

So even when your internet lags, the fluidity doesn't.

So download the upgraded version of the Opera Browser.

It is the best browser for anyone remotely interested in tech.


Speaker 0: I've been an iPhone user for a long time now, but last month I switched over from my iPhone 14 Pro Max to this Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, with no intention of moving back. I love the concept of this phone. I made an entire video when it launched showing you how it's Samsung's biggest upgrade yet, and I genuinely thought that this was going to be it, That this was the phone that was finally going to convert me back to being a Samsung user once again. And on the way, I've learned a lot about the state of Android vs iOS in 2023, how Samsung's touches help or hinder that, and what a foldable phone is really like versus a normal bar phone to live with. So let's start with the setup process, because it starts out fantastic.

It tells you to connect both phones via a cable and you'll be good to go in 30 minutes. And even WhatsApp, the single most historically difficult app to transfer, now has a move to Android button baked in. But then the first problem arose, it wouldn't detect the cable. I went through 4 cables before it finally recognised 1, and then when it worked it only partially transferred apps with very little app data. So you had to start each 1

Speaker 1: from the beginning. The rest

Speaker 0: of the stuff like contacts came in dribs and drabs, with some having to then be transferred again later with the wireless method, and WhatsApp just altogether refused. This transfer, no joke, it became my and Drish's evening project every day for the entire first week, just to try

Speaker 1: and get my chats across from

Speaker 0: this phone to this phone. And for the time being, what I've resorted to is to just link WhatsApp on my new Z Flip to the main WhatsApp account that's still active on my iPhone. But what

Speaker 1: that means is that I'm effectively still piggybacking off the iPhone and still need to use it once every 14 days

Speaker 0: so that I can stay logged in on my Samsung. Now, all of this hassle is definitely partly Samsung's fault for making a smart switch app that isn't very smart at switching. But it wouldn't be fair to give them all the blame. I mean, you'll have trouble switching from iPhone to any Android nowadays, simply because Apple is now more and more tying every single iPhone app and feature into your Apple ID, effectively increasing the friction that would come from exiting that bubble. So this transition was off to a rough start, but the software actually really turned things around for me.

Put simply, I love customization. And you rarely feel when you're using an iPhone like it's lacking, but it's only when you move over to Android after a long time being

Speaker 1: on iPhone that you re-appreciate all of those,

Speaker 0: oh yeah, I can change that too moments. So Samsung, for example, has a suite of apps called Good Lock, And it gives you a level of control so absolutely insane you could spend weeks optimising every single key of your keyboard, or adding in instant shortcuts to popular phrases. You can craft every aspect of your own motion wallpaper, and you can not just apply icon packs,

Speaker 1: you can make your own.

Speaker 0: I decided quite early on that this phone reminds me of a banana, so I went all in on that.

Speaker 1: And what's really refreshing about using an

Speaker 0: Android again is that when you have those little niggles, which I did, like how if you want to search for an app on Samsung's default home screen, you have to execute some pretty advanced finger gymnastics, Or how I've got so used to flicking down the control panel on my iPhone to change brightness in 1 swipe, which again is not the case here. It feels tiring. In almost all cases, it's just a case of finding the right app or setting and you can fix them. I guess the point being, moving

Speaker 1: from iPhone to Android, it felt relieving to not be so locked into 1 way of doing things.

Speaker 0: Like I remember getting really annoyed earlier this year. I'd taken some hour long time lapses on my iPhone and for some reason, maybe the files were too large, AirDrop kept failing. And it also wasn't syncing to my Mac via Apple Photos, which is how you normally have to transfer videos. And all I could think in that moment was, I wish this was an Android for like 10 minutes just so I could plug it in, go into the Android folder directory, and just drag and drop the files I needed to my computer. Only thing that really does feel like a downgrade here is the face unlock.

I'm used to using Apple's face ID for everything and it's so reliable and so good that you start to forget it's there. Not the case here. Samsung's face unlock isn't as secure, so you can't use it to authenticate as many things. It needs you to be closer, It's a little bit slower, and since it's not using infrared, but your actual cameras to snapshot your face, which means it's A, affected by light. So when you try and do this at night, the phone will actually blast you with enough of it to wake you right back up.

And B, affected by the quality of those cameras, meaning that it works pretty reliably when folded, cause you've got a good set of cameras there, but then noticeably less well when unfolded, as you have to rely on this tiny sensor. It's a pretty minor issue. You can just use the fingerprint scanner, but it leads me onto what I would call a pretty major issue. Yeah, the cameras. When I first saw this phone, I thought, this is amazing.

You can zip the phone out, you can double tap and get high quality selfies taken with a proper set of cameras. The same set of proper cameras that you can also use for taking rear photos. And in some ways, this feeling was spot on. The fact that when the phone's folded up, its primary set of cameras are already facing you, that's really powerful because it makes them the default option. It creates a situation where the quickest way to take a selfie is also the best way to take a selfie.

And this works really well since

Speaker 1: you can also use these cameras while propping

Speaker 0: at any angle in cover screen mode. And they've made the navigation really natural too. You just swipe to flick modes and you tap the screen to start recording. The stabilisation is pretty great. I love how Samsung makes faces look both crisp but at the same time flattering.

And to be fair also, thanks to some pretty smart AI, the phone's ability to zoom in is not as bad as you might think given that it has no actual zoom camera. But everything else is a little disappointing. I mean for starters, while this whole time I've seen it as 1 massive perk that

Speaker 1: you can flip the same set of cameras to

Speaker 0: use as both the front and the rear. Until I actually used it for a prolonged period of time,

Speaker 1: I completely neglected the con that also comes with this, in that in its default position, you have no rear camera.

Speaker 0: Anytime you want to take a video of what's in front of you with 1 hand. It's not tap, tap like I'm used to. It is, tilt the phone up, find a way to wedge your thumb in, which is pretty difficult considering there's almost no gap. Now, I'll push it all the way, rotating your finger because you're conscious not to dig your nails into the fragile, foldable screen. Half the time I then accidentally opened this menu, so close that and then press and swipe out for the camera, followed by a final swipe to get to video.

Now, I'm dramatising this a little bit to make the point, but when you're getting your phone out for the 40th time in a day, which I was just yesterday because I was out viewing houses and needed to take photos of every single room, you really do start to think, Ugh, this whole opening and closing thing, it's effort. And that what a phone like this really needs is a button that can automatically flip the phone into its fully unfolded position. And then even when you do unfold it, the video quality itself is not that great. Now I did go into this knowing that I'd be taking a hit when it comes to video. But even with that, it doesn't feel good when you film in those middle lighting conditions, which you think should be fine for a thousand dollar phone, and then you check the footage afterwards and you realise they're covered in a sheet of green.

Plus, what's really easy to overlook, and something that I don't even consider on first impression, is that while you do get a set of cameras on the front, there is no microphone that faces you. So you end up with this really weird trade-off where you can either have good video,

Speaker 1: but mediocre audio when you're using this,

Speaker 0: or you can have good audio and then mediocre video because this inner selfie camera has a microphone directly above it. And let's be very clear, I'm not exaggerating the quality difference between these 2 sets of cameras. Anyone can tell that one's good and one's not. And to be honest, cameras aren't even the only area where you feel the teething problems of foldable phones right now. But if you're enjoying this video then a sub to the channel would be...

Galaxy Brain. Now don't get me wrong, there have been plenty of moments where I've discovered some new niche nifty perk from the fact that my phone can bend. Like how often when I film I keep my phone on my desk and sometimes pick it up to remind me what I wanted to say. But with this,

Speaker 1: I can use the bottom half to prop up

Speaker 0: the top half and I can see it without even picking it up. Or how like a couple of times when I've taken video calls, this new even sturdier hinge is the reason that I've been able to take them hands-free and actually cook something at the same time. It's so freeing and refreshing. And it's in these specific moments that you feel that little validation for straying away from the beaten path and actually choosing a phone that's a bit different. But what's made this such a bittersweet experience is that for every single 1 of these moments, where you start to question why you didn't start using foldables earlier, something else will very shortly come up to remind you.

Like the fact that the top half of your screen on its own is not really big enough to do anything with. It fits such little information on it that I started to find I was scrolling twice as often and that I was actually just better off using a bigger phone and propping it up against something. 1 of the things I was really excited about with this was the possibility of being able to watch content in any situation and actually have a great viewing experience because the angle of the phone can be adjusted. But it only took 2 days of me trying to make this work for me to decide, actually, this doesn't make any sense. The amount of horizontal room you have to display a video on this folded screen is so tiny that I'd literally be squinting to try and see what's happening.

And so the compromise I've ended up with is using a slight bend to allow the phone to stand up sideways. So you can still get that full screen experience and prop your phone up without using a separate stand, but you just lose what was really exciting about this, which is being able to adjust the angle. And then the other annoying part of this is that when the phone is fully open, it's too tall. If most YouTube videos on a normal phone fill 80% of

Speaker 1: the screen, here it's probably 65. Which

Speaker 0: is small enough that it starts to

Speaker 1: feel like you're wasting space,

Speaker 0: and that if you try and enlarge it, you're going to lose so much information on the top and

Speaker 1: the bottom that it's kind of unwatchable.

Speaker 0: Oh

Speaker 1: yeah, and there's also the really obvious crease, which to be

Speaker 0: honest over time you do adjust

Speaker 1: to, but it just makes the phone a bit less cool. And it does also pose a practical problem

Speaker 0: if you're trying to watch videos on it with other people, because for whoever's watching from an angle, you will basically just see a big line over your content. Battery life on the other hand, pleasant surprise. It's not even been close to an issue for me. It sounds bad on paper with its 3, 700 milliamp hour cell, but 2 things, A, I'm spending a third of my time with this phone on this tiny cover screen, which is pretty conservative on battery, and B, the fact that the cover screen is the default has 100% definitely reduced the total time I spend on my phone. It's created far more of a barrier between receiving a notification and then getting lost in an app that I didn't even realise why I clicked.

I'll normally keep the phone folded up on the desk I work on, and then if I get like a WhatsApp, I flick to the side, I tap it to make sure it's not urgent, and then just turn the phone back off. Since there's nothing I can do on

Speaker 1: this cover screen that's actually fun,

Speaker 0: it's also not distracting. I've said this from the very beginning, and I stand by it in the long term, that this ability to create separation between the utility of a phone and the distraction that usually comes with that, that is the single biggest perk of these Z flip phones.

Speaker 1: So, am I going to stick to it? Is it going to be the 1 to replace the iPhone? No. Part of it is

Speaker 0: the niggles that come with it being a foldable, part of it is the pretty severe camera downgrade, but a big part of it is also the ecosystem. So I'm actually not really fussed whether my phone is an Android or an iPhone, but the 1 thing that is a non-negotiable for me is that my computer has to be a Mac. For my needs, the fluidity of the Final Cut Pro editing program and the massive lead-in battery life that Macs have right now over Windows, these 2 are both critical because I'm constantly traveling and I'm constantly trying to work while traveling. And so part of the decision has

Speaker 1: to also be how easy is it

Speaker 0: to live with an Android phone

Speaker 1: and an Apple computer?

Speaker 0: And to be honest, not a massive issue. There are workarounds for almost every single feature, but I have felt the lack of ease. I really miss AirDrop, that's for 1. If you want to wirelessly transfer between these 2, I mean, most guides seem to recommend AirDroid, but it puts ads right in your face, needs a monthly subscription, and also still has a file size limit, even if you pay. There's WarpShare, which can actually fool your Mac into thinking you're sending from an iPhone, but only works 1 way.

And so the best option seems to be SnapDrop, which looks like AirDrop and even feels like AirDrop in that you're just browsing your files, you tap share, you click via SnapDrop and then tap on your

Speaker 1: Mac or PC to send it.

Speaker 0: But even that's not the same. It's slower than AirDrop, you have 1 extra press on the Mac of having to click download after the transfer's complete, and it also will not continue if you move really far away, like AirDrop does now.

Speaker 1: Plus, it feels really weird not

Speaker 0: being able to take my phone calls on my laptop automatically like I used to be able to with my iPhone. It was so handy because it removes that anxiety of always needing to sit within hearing distance of your phone in case someone tries to get in touch. And also, AirPods become less good. They still work, but just as basic Bluetooth earbuds without a lot of their key perks, like automatically pausing when you take 1 bud out. There's a few more instances like this, of the difficulties you get when trying to fit Samsung into an Apple ecosystem, but the point is, mildly inconvenient, not insurmountable, and I'd be willing to put up with it if the rest of the phone had impressed me more.

Because as well as all the other difficulties, I've also noticed the signal doesn't seem as strong as it does on my iPhone, potentially since there's more layers to travel through when folded. The speakers aren't as loud or as bassy, presumably because they've had

Speaker 1: to make the body of

Speaker 0: the phone slimmer and the Z Flip gets pretty hot,

Speaker 1: especially when charging or using a mobile hotspot, with my theory being that it's more cubic shape when folded, reducing the surface area for heat to escape, plus cooling just generally not being a priority here.

Speaker 0: So I guess the search for the Android

Speaker 1: that will steal me away continues.

Speaker 0: Now, as well as this phone, the other thing I've spent a long time using recently is the Opera desktop browser. And there's 3 reasons for that. The first being tab islands. So yesterday I was on an Amazon shopping spree, getting all my shampoos and creams in 1 go. And then immediately, the second I decided that I wanted to go over and do some scripting, I tap this button and every Amazon tab collapses into this 1 little thing, so I have a completely decluttered workspace.

2, the fact that AI is literally at your fingertips. Let's say you're researching and you want to ask a really specific question to learn more about something. You don't even need to touch your mouse. You just use command and slash, paste or type your query, and just hit enter. And I really like the fact that this AI is there when you want it and just disappears when you don't.

And then 1 is all the nice-to-haves. The fact that your social medias are baked into the sidebar, the free VPN, the free ad blocker, and the silky smooth animations made possible by a separate software layer that handles them. So even when your internet lags, the fluidity doesn't. So download the upgraded version of the Opera Browser. It is the best browser for anyone remotely interested in tech.

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