New Samsung Z Flip 5 leak highlights a great big cover screen

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 leaks and rumors point to a bigger cover screen on the upcoming phone, and A new alleged render published by MySmartPrice The trend continues. The image shows the Z Flip 5 with an awesomely large cover screen, which is exactly what we want. And by us, I mean me personally. I want this.

The outer screen of the Galaxy Z Flip 4 measures just 1.9 inches. It’s fine for checking the weather and reading notifications, but the small size limits the actions you can perform with it, such as typing responses to texts. It’s also not ideal for taking selfies with external cameras—one of the benefits of flip-style phones—as the preview image is literally the size of a postage stamp. I checked

That looks like that’s set to change with the Z Flip 5, and just in time: The Motorola Razr Plus is here, and it comes with a comparatively huge 3.6-inch screen. In my brief hands-on time previewing the device, I used the screen to run Google Maps, type text, and even browse websites. It is capable of infinitely more than the small screen.

It’s not all about the hardware though. There are a lot of tricky software problems to solve with the big cover screen. Do you just let people run any old app on it, even if it breaks the app’s functionality? How do you handle handoff between the big and small screens? What do you do about camera lenses? It looks like Samsung is taking a different approach to Motorola after all, at least, shielding the screen to avoid the cameras instead of letting it flow around. It will be very interesting to see how their approaches to these other software challenges differ as well.