The new Samsung Flip 7 is here, but
honestly, I'm not that impressed.
Right off the bat, we have a new design. It's a little thinner, a little bigger,
but the real claim to fame is the Infinity window on the front. That's
right. They got rid of the thick bezels of the Flip 6. This is actually the Flip
7 FE, but we'll talk about that later. And copied the Motorola razors all the
way around the screen front cover, and it looks way better than the old ones. I
really like the way it cuts around the cameras here to give you as much real estate as possible, but unfortunately
they didn't give you the ability to use whatever app you want on the front screen. You're still limited to the
widgets that they kind of let you have, but it's better than nothing. And it
truly does look quite good. Coming from the 2025 Motorola Razer that I've been
daily driving for a little bit now, I really like the flat sides. It really
feels sturdy in your hands and like you have a good hold of it. But one thing I
noticed is that coming from the new Fold 7, it's pretty thick. It's thicker than
it is folded. Even unfolded, it is still
almost as thick as the Fold 7. But again, I don't really mind as it feels
substantial enough in your hand that you know you have a hold of it. When you're going to take your camcorder footage
that for some reason Samsung thinks everybody's doing, please take videos
like this. They're begging you. Speaking of, the hinge does feel quite good. It's
apparently 30% smaller than the Flip 6, but uh I don't know. Looks the same to
me. The crease is almost invisible, though. I've never been particularly
sensitive to the crease, but as always, I do think it looks almost completely
flat. Almost. On the inside, we have a 6.9 in full HD plus display, so it's
going to look pretty good. And full HD plus means it won't go through as much
battery. And on the front screen, it is 4.1 in at 948x
10 something. I don't you know, it's a front screen and again, you can't do a
whole lot on it, so you probably won't notice, but it's nice to have and
probably fairly durable, but if it's not, luckily we have Dbrand, who sells
screen protectors for this thing. Dbrand, man. What do I say about Dbrand?
No, literally. I don't know what they want me to say, but the screen protector
seems pretty easy to put on. You just give it a clean. Take your easy
applicator and pop it on. Pull this guy,
swipe it down, and just like that,
you're good to go. Get your Dbrand cases and screen protectors at my boss is very
short.com. Inside the Flip 7 is a 4,300 mAh battery in the XNOS 2500 SoC. And I
think that means it'll do okay with battery. I'm honestly a little confused
why they chose to do XNOS instead of Snapdragon. Even in the announcement,
they just said the latest 3 nanometer technology and didn't want to say what
SOC it was, which probably isn't a great sign, especially when again competition
is using the latest Snapdragon to make sure you're getting the most performance. It seems like a bit of a
swing in a miss, but I'm not sure. We're only using this on a show floor. So, let
us know if we should follow up with some performance results. What I can show you
are some photos. So, this has a 50 megapixel main camera and a 12 megap
ultrawide. No telephoto here. Maybe you care, maybe you don't. I actually prefer
to have an ultra wide, but it would be great to have all three, but I guess it
would look weird on the cover screen. I don't know. Somebody photoshopped that
up and sent it to me. One interesting thing is that it doesn't look very good
in the preview, but when you take the photo, maybe it's just the processing or whatever, it looks way better. It's
still not something I would say compares to a normal flagship, whether it's even the S25 or the Ultra or now the Fold 7,
but it looks decent enough. And again, the ultra wide looks totally serviceable
because it didn't hold it in camcorder mode. Oh, that's right. Camcorder mode. How do
I make it take a photo? I guess I have to move my thumb here. Wow, it's the
same photo. There is a selfie cam, too, but uh you know, they really want you to
again use the cover cameras. I don't like doing that. I don't take a ton of
selfies, though. Maybe I should. Also, believe it or not, this phone has AI.
Thank goodness. A big selling point for them was that you can use Google Gemini
on the cover screen. I don't know why you couldn't do that on the Flip 6, but
you can here. Great. A nice thing is that they do have integration with the
Samsung OS, so you can do things like call and send text messages, which I
can't do on my Razer. Again, let me know if I'm doing something wrong, but I find
it so frustrating. Let me send a text. Let me change the song. God, subscribe
to ShortCircuit, please. Please, God.
Looking at the internal screen, looks amazing. It's a Samsung display. They
always look good. Truly always impressed. It gets really bright. The
colors look amazing. Again, the crease is like not noticeable almost at all
unless you're very sensitive to it. I could watch Oppenheimer on this. But if
I want to watch Oppenheimer, this has to have good speakers. Let's check it out.
Honestly, it sounds pretty good. The earpiece amplified speaker does get a
little crackly at 100% volume, but barely noticeable unless I put my ear to
it. And the way you hold it, I didn't really feel like it affected listening
all that much because again, the size of the phone means you kind of cup it, which makes the volume come towards your
ears. I'm impressed. And that's pretty much it for the Flip 7. There is a Flip
7 FE which is pretty much the same thing just in the older design with the big
thick bezels and it has the Exynos 2400
instead of 2500 which they say does affect some things like the now briefing
AI thing that it can do. But maybe if you don't care about the Infinity
window, this would be the way to go cuz this one's going to be launching at $900
and this one the Flip 7 at $1,100 which is a pretty big asking point and is part
of the reason I'm a little unimpressed. There's a lot of competition in the
market now. Like I said, I've been daily driving the Razer Ultra 2025, and the
specs are much better, almost in every
single way. And I like the rounded design and the fact that I can use
almost any app I want on the front display. After seeing the Fold 7 get so
much of an upgrade with how thin it is, and it's actually really good camera,
I'm starting to worry that we're maybe hitting the peak of what we can do on a flip phone. If you can only get so thin,
what else is there to do? maybe go back to being thicker and adds more features.
I'm tired of having a lesser phone because I want it to flip instead of
fold. But what do you think? Are you impressed? Maybe you have an old flip
and you're ready to get a new one, or you want to try camcorder mode so bad.
Please use camcorder