Looking at Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 foldables, available on August 11, you may not see a whole lot that screams game-changing.

On paper, that’s mostly true. The two new Samsung foldable phones have a more powerful and efficient Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, but the cameras, battery capacities, and even the software is largely unchanged from their predecessors, the Z Flip 4 and Z Fold 4.

However, tech specs aren’t everything. iPhone users know this and Samsung seems to acknowledge this with the Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5’s safe evolutionary updates.

The good thing about slowing down on chasing the fastest speeds and feeds is that the real-life experience does feel substantially improved — something you can’t convey on a spec chart. At Unpacked 2023 in Seoul, South Korea, I tried out Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 to see how the new foldables compare to their predecessors.

One of the most iconic shots in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is of our heroine simply removing her shoes. Barbie daintily steps out of pink heels, but her feet retain the tiptoe shape just like a real Barbie doll’s. When trouble arrives, it’s in the form of a foot flush with the ground. Barbie’s perpetually lifted heels have suddenly dropped, and that’s how everyone knows something’s amiss.

Further underscoring the doll-human dichotomy, Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) presents Barbie with a blue pill/red pill choice in the form of a high heel or Birkenstocks. Of course Barbie dolls aren’t made for flats! How can they have it all if they’re not literally balancing their body at all times?

So what would happen if we all walked like Barbie dolls, in a constant state of trying to reach something on the high shelf? A lifetime of tiptoe, it turns out, is no good for anyone.