Shekhar Thakran

There are few studios in gaming with a legacy as specific as Game Freak’s. For three decades, the Japanese developer has been synonymous with one thing: the primary developer and co-owner of the Pokémon role-playing game series. So when Beast of Reincarnation was announced, most people’s first reaction had less to do with the game itself and more to do with the sheer novelty of the situation.

Somewhere along the way to digital nirvana, our desks have turned into a mess of jumbled-up cables. There is one charging brick for our laptop, a separate adapter for the phone, a third one for your tablet, and a fourth doing duty for whichever pair of earbuds or headphones happened to be running low on juice that day. Everything works, but it looks like a mess, and more annoyingly, it means you are forever reaching behind furniture to swap plugs around.

If you slip your hand into your pocket right now and pull up your phone, you’ll most probably not be immediately impressed by it. And chances are that whatever slate phone is sitting in your pocket is either too big to feel comfortable or too small to actually do anything interesting. And that’s been the quiet tax every phone buyer has paid for years, size versus capability, as if you could only ever have one. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 was built from ground up to get rid of this exact trade-off.