Passport, please: three months with the Galaxy Fold 8

After I switched to Android last year, I tried a Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 for a few weeks. It was my first foldable, but I ended up returning it and spending the year with a Pixel 10 Pro XL instead. Three things bothered me about the Fold 7: The fingerprint sensor. Not because it’s bad or slow, but because of where the design forces Samsung to place it. On the tall Fold 7, that placement always felt wrong for my hands. Either too close or too far, making it harder to position a finger for an accurate read on the thin chassis. If they’d put the sensor in the screen, it would make the tap target effortless to hit every time, and reduce the risk of accidental triggering when you’re just holding the phone. One UI. Turns out I don’t like where 2 out of the 3 major smartphone manufacturers available in Canada have ended up with their design systems. Apple’s Liquid Glass seems designed to call attention to itself, and its outcomes don’t earn that level of preening. And Samsung’s OneUI is a…