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The new Samsung Flip 7 is here, but

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honestly, I'm not that impressed.

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Right off the bat, we have a new design. It's a little thinner, a little bigger,

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but the real claim to fame is the Infinity window on the front. That's

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right. They got rid of the thick bezels of the Flip 6. This is actually the Flip

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7 FE, but we'll talk about that later. And copied the Motorola razors all the

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way around the screen front cover, and it looks way better than the old ones. I

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really like the way it cuts around the cameras here to give you as much real estate as possible, but unfortunately

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they didn't give you the ability to use whatever app you want on the front screen. You're still limited to the

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widgets that they kind of let you have, but it's better than nothing. And it

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truly does look quite good. Coming from the 2025 Motorola Razer that I've been

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daily driving for a little bit now, I really like the flat sides. It really

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feels sturdy in your hands and like you have a good hold of it. But one thing I

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noticed is that coming from the new Fold 7, it's pretty thick. It's thicker than

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it is folded. Even unfolded, it is still

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almost as thick as the Fold 7. But again, I don't really mind as it feels

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substantial enough in your hand that you know you have a hold of it. When you're going to take your camcorder footage

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that for some reason Samsung thinks everybody's doing, please take videos

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like this. They're begging you. Speaking of, the hinge does feel quite good. It's

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apparently 30% smaller than the Flip 6, but uh I don't know. Looks the same to

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me. The crease is almost invisible, though. I've never been particularly

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sensitive to the crease, but as always, I do think it looks almost completely

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flat. Almost. On the inside, we have a 6.9 in full HD plus display, so it's

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going to look pretty good. And full HD plus means it won't go through as much

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battery. And on the front screen, it is 4.1 in at 948x

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10 something. I don't you know, it's a front screen and again, you can't do a

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whole lot on it, so you probably won't notice, but it's nice to have and

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probably fairly durable, but if it's not, luckily we have Dbrand, who sells

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screen protectors for this thing. Dbrand, man. What do I say about Dbrand?

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No, literally. I don't know what they want me to say, but the screen protector

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seems pretty easy to put on. You just give it a clean. Take your easy

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applicator and pop it on. Pull this guy,

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swipe it down, and just like that,

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you're good to go. Get your Dbrand cases and screen protectors at my boss is very

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short.com. Inside the Flip 7 is a 4,300 mAh battery in the XNOS 2500 SoC. And I

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think that means it'll do okay with battery. I'm honestly a little confused

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why they chose to do XNOS instead of Snapdragon. Even in the announcement,

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they just said the latest 3 nanometer technology and didn't want to say what

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SOC it was, which probably isn't a great sign, especially when again competition

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is using the latest Snapdragon to make sure you're getting the most performance. It seems like a bit of a

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swing in a miss, but I'm not sure. We're only using this on a show floor. So, let

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us know if we should follow up with some performance results. What I can show you

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are some photos. So, this has a 50 megapixel main camera and a 12 megap

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ultrawide. No telephoto here. Maybe you care, maybe you don't. I actually prefer

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to have an ultra wide, but it would be great to have all three, but I guess it

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would look weird on the cover screen. I don't know. Somebody photoshopped that

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up and sent it to me. One interesting thing is that it doesn't look very good

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in the preview, but when you take the photo, maybe it's just the processing or whatever, it looks way better. It's

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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,

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but it looks decent enough. And again, the ultra wide looks totally serviceable

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because it didn't hold it in camcorder mode. Oh, that's right. Camcorder mode. How do

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I make it take a photo? I guess I have to move my thumb here. Wow, it's the

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same photo. There is a selfie cam, too, but uh you know, they really want you to

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again use the cover cameras. I don't like doing that. I don't take a ton of

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selfies, though. Maybe I should. Also, believe it or not, this phone has AI.

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Thank goodness. A big selling point for them was that you can use Google Gemini

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on the cover screen. I don't know why you couldn't do that on the Flip 6, but

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you can here. Great. A nice thing is that they do have integration with the

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Samsung OS, so you can do things like call and send text messages, which I

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can't do on my Razer. Again, let me know if I'm doing something wrong, but I find

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it so frustrating. Let me send a text. Let me change the song. God, subscribe

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to ShortCircuit, please. Please, God.

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Looking at the internal screen, looks amazing. It's a Samsung display. They

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always look good. Truly always impressed. It gets really bright. The

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colors look amazing. Again, the crease is like not noticeable almost at all

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unless you're very sensitive to it. I could watch Oppenheimer on this. But if

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I want to watch Oppenheimer, this has to have good speakers. Let's check it out.

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Honestly, it sounds pretty good. The earpiece amplified speaker does get a

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little crackly at 100% volume, but barely noticeable unless I put my ear to

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it. And the way you hold it, I didn't really feel like it affected listening

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all that much because again, the size of the phone means you kind of cup it, which makes the volume come towards your

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ears. I'm impressed. And that's pretty much it for the Flip 7. There is a Flip

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7 FE which is pretty much the same thing just in the older design with the big

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thick bezels and it has the Exynos 2400

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instead of 2500 which they say does affect some things like the now briefing

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AI thing that it can do. But maybe if you don't care about the Infinity

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window, this would be the way to go cuz this one's going to be launching at $900

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and this one the Flip 7 at $1,100 which is a pretty big asking point and is part

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of the reason I'm a little unimpressed. There's a lot of competition in the

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market now. Like I said, I've been daily driving the Razer Ultra 2025, and the

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specs are much better, almost in every

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single way. And I like the rounded design and the fact that I can use

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almost any app I want on the front display. After seeing the Fold 7 get so

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much of an upgrade with how thin it is, and it's actually really good camera,

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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,

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what else is there to do? maybe go back to being thicker and adds more features.

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I'm tired of having a lesser phone because I want it to flip instead of

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fold. But what do you think? Are you impressed? Maybe you have an old flip

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and you're ready to get a new one, or you want to try camcorder mode so bad.

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Please use camcorder