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Still, it's arguably unreasonable to expect such an upgrade when the Galaxy Book Flex 2 has 5G connectivity.
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This is a 1080p resolution laptop selling at the price of a 4K one. However, other screen elements are just OK. Maximum brightness is also up there with the brighter high-end laptops. This has a Quantum Dot layer to improve colour performance and, sure enough, colour depth is extremely good, comparable with an OLED screen. The screen itself uses Samsung's QLED tech, as seen in the company's TVs. And if you press the button on the barrel while the S-Pen is within around an inch of the display surface, the stylus menu pops up. The S-Pen uses Wacom tech, for 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity. You can add shortcuts to this screen to, if you actually have a good art/design app use for the stylus. There are shortcuts to the few Samsung pre-installed extras, like doodle app Pen-up, the screen write tool and note-taker app. This is similar to what you'd see in a Galaxy Note phone when removing its stylus. It's not hidden around the back, it fits into place with a nice positive click, and a custom S-Pen interface pops-up on the screen when you pull it out. A bold blue pen slots into the front part of the frame. The Galaxy Book Flex 2 also has one of the best stylus implementations found in laptops. There's something about the way aluminium telegraphs quality that just doesn't get old, and you get it here, in most of the panels. After a decade of reviewing laptops, we're not sure the trade-off is always worth it. There are several lighter 13-inch laptops out there, but most of them trade away a metallic feel to shed a couple of hundred grammes. It weighs 1.247kg according to our scales.
This may be the key to keeping the Galaxy Book Flex 2 weight low. The inside has the slightly softer, less metallic feel of an aluminium-magnesium alloy. The lid and underside seem to be aluminium. Samsung doesn't say too much about the specific alloys used in the Galaxy Book Flex 2, but applying the eye, finger, teeth and tongue tests - yes we're kinda gross - we can make a few guesses. This is simple silver, with a texture that takes away the tacky-looking sparkle some cheaper metal laptops have. We're not sure what's so royal about this though. Rich, deep Royal Blue has been traded in for Royal Silver. The look of the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 2 is much more subdued than last year's Galaxy Flex, though.
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We're not sure what else Samsung could have shoved in without going full The Simspsons bubble car. There are generation-spanning connections. Samsung has tried to fit everything into the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 2. Still, if you care more about being able to live-stream your next meeting than spending that extra few hundred quid, then the Flex 2 is probably just what you need. However, we don't think it's necessarily the best choice for those who actually want an everyday work computer - as its keyboard is shallow and the price is pretty darn high. Whatever you take a 'lifestyle laptop' to mean, the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 2 probably fits the mould. And, oddly enough, its battery will outlast plenty of Galaxy phones. The Flex 2 has 5G mobile internet, is lightweight, expensive, and has a slot-in-stylus. If you took a Samsung Galaxy Note phone and turned it into a laptop, it might look a bit like this. The Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 2 shows no sign of this kind of dislocation. Sony, as one example, makes the best camera sensors and many of the best mirrorless cameras - but its Xperia phones have never been at the top of phone camera performance. (Pocket-lint) - It often seems like the different parts of tech megacorps barely talk to each other.