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- This is the Galaxy Z Flip, whereas I'll be calling it Z Flip.

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Has anybody else done that yet? - Z Flip. - Everyone has already done that, I dunno.

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I didn't watch anyone else's videos 'cause I didn't wanna color my impressions

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of the second foldable phone from Samsung or is it the third?

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Do we count the one that they recalled? So I'm getting it late.

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The reason is that Samsung didn't send me one and I had to wait for retail availability,

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but that doesn't change how excited I am about this device.

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As you guys might remember, I was a huge fan of the Galaxy Fold

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and the flip is just, well kind of an extension of the same concept.

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So the idea is that you've got a device that takes up

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very little space when it's folded up and then expands into something much larger.

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Oh wait, that's interesting. I just unfolded it and it actually has a bit of a curve to it.

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You know, I thought that that might be just a problem with my Galaxy Fold.

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So it doesn't fold all the way, but it might just be to do with Samsung's hinge design.

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Can you tell on camera that it's an open a little bit too far, man, that bugs me way more than it probably should.

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All right, let's go, indeed ladies and gentlemen.

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Really? Apple finally did away with this

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and now Samsung forces you to insert a SIM card

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in order to set up the phone the first time. No micro SD expansion,

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so we've just got a SIM slot here, all right. Let's restart this thing, I mean,

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I guess this is better than what Samsung used to do where when you put in your SIM card,

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it would reset the phone that you had already set up. That was really cute.

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Well, let's take a look at this thing. So it's got a USB type C port,

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it's got wireless charging on the right-hand side. They've got a side mounted fingerprint sensor,

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as well as a volume rocker up here. No IP rating of any sort on this thing,

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which kind of makes sense, it'd be really difficult to keep water out of the hinge.

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Dual 12 megapixel rear camera, so this is not gonna be a photography beast.

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And this is cool. So this is a small external display that'll tell you, you know,

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a notification that's coming in or whatever the case may be, and that'll allow you to flip open the phone

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and carry on where you left off. While we wait for this to boot up though,

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let's try the actual flipness of it.

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I was one of those people who's been using a cell phone long enough to have actually had a flip phone.

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And like half the reason you get one is for the satisfaction

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of being like, yeah, what's up, you know, hey, I'm just gonna talk on my phone and then closing it up.

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And I will say the sound isn't great. And the extra width actually makes it

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a little bit uncomfortable to do that. You know what?

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I'll give it a B. I wish it had a more satisfying sound on the close.

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It slows down a little bit as it approaches fully opening up.

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And part of that might be because they've designed it to be configurable in multiple spots.

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So that snap only happens from about here on, right?

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Other than that, you can kind of stick it wherever you want.

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It's a really cool design. I think it's still booting up. So there have already been some durability tests determining

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just how glass likes Samsung's flexible glasses,

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but can you see that? What the hell?

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And I wasn't even poking at it super hard though.

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What made me notice it was that I had just like touched it or something

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and I put it down and the reflection of the studio lights here

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made it really obvious that there's like some give to it.

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And then it's kind of like memory foam bouncing back up.

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Oh, it's super soft. All right, are we ready to set this thing up?

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Nice, this is a very tall display. And I don't know if part of why it seems so tall

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is because the hinges are on the side. It does, doesn't it?

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This is a really expensive phone that

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other than the foldness and the hinge

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doesn't feel that futuristic

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like when you're actually using it. Like, do you guys think I'm being unfair so far?

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Okay, 'cause I'm not trying to be unfair. Okay though, you know what?

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Holding these two phones in my hand while I was copying an authentication key over,

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the narrowness actually feels pretty good.

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Like it's more similar to the old candy bar style phones

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than I initially realized. Maybe I missed that a little bit, you know?

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Oh, okay, I was gonna say reaching across as quite easy,

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but then with how tall it is like with how top heavy it is,

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it's easy for it to fall out of your hand. Don't worry I got a dbrand skin on there

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for those incidental scars and scrapes, right?

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Wow, that is really high up to reach to

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go to like the URL bar. I can't think of anything I've ever used

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where I got to reach up, I have to shift my hands so much to reach that.

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One of the initial criticisms I heard of this thing is that scrolling over the hinge is really weird and uncomfortable.

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My take so far is I wouldn't normally be scrolling up that high,

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at least with the size of hands that I have. I wouldn't really go any higher than here.

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And I don't know if you can see this, but the hinge is right around here.

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This does feel weird in other ways though, like mobile internet

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was designed with 16 by nine devices in mind. And then we started getting these slightly wider ones.

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Just one result, just one Wikipedia article takes up.

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What is that? That is over a third of my display.

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One of the pictures on Samsung site is like multitasking on this thing.

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I can't even see this entire post because it contains some text

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and it's a retweet that also had some texts on it. Like that is not a usable experience.

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I go on the product page for this, and it's like, yeah, massive 6.7 inch display,

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it's like, you realize you're the same company that just launched the S20 Ultra at the same event.

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And it's a bit of a hack in the first place because measuring your screen diagonally

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instead of by the total screen area is sort of cheating.

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I mean, this is still really cool, and I'm never gonna get over this.

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Yeah, yeah, cool, right?. - [David] It's scrolling, wow.

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- Well, yeah, but it's scrolling around the bend. Look, I'm scrolling this way

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and they image is going that way. What, what.

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How much is this thing costs? Like $1500, something like that.

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You know what? Let's look up how much this thing costs. I actually don't know.

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No, okay, no, that's just like a horrible Canadian pricing.

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Okay, so it's 1,380. So it's a little less than 1,500 US.

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If nothing else, I'll say this about the price. Samsung's got a lot of guts asking more than iPhone pricing

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for something that doesn't even have top tier Android phone specs.

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So it Snapdragon 855 rather than 865, is got 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage,

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just a 3300 mAh power battery. So you're gonna be using this for one day

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and one day only between charges. And then probably the biggest problem for me

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is the dual 12 megapixel cameras. Like on the one hand you're telling me

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this is a phone for people who are really image obsessed,

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because why else would it be important to you to whip out a foldable phone be like, yes,

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this is a hinge on the back of my phone, but I don't care about having a good camera.

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I mean, I shouldn't say it's not good without actually trying it. So let's go, we've got our double tap to open the camera

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and hey Andy, how you doing?

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Yeah, what does this, what is this? We got two guys doing the work and then two of them to watch.

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Wow, it's got this white balance way off, you notice that?

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Stay within three feet of the subject. These live bulkhead effects are still so bad.

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I gave it the best possible case scenario, a box.

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And it still manages to have this part of the table in focus for no apparent reason

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and manages to blur this line. Like, what is this?

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This is one of their pitches. Whether it's for video calling

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or for just like taking selfies, is being able to put your phone in front of you like this

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and just be like, oh, look at that. That would be pretty cool for video calling.

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The one problem I had is they've also got shots on their site of people holding it like this for video calling

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that is not ergonomic at all. This is way better, that was smooth though.

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That animation going from folded mode

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to full screen mode, me like it. Maybe we can get rid of some of that beauty smoothing.

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I don't need no more beauty. I am beautiful enough without the beauty smoothing.

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Thank you, sir. Let's give it another chance without any filters.

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Look at how much fun am having, that's what you're supposed to do for a selfie, right?

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Yeah, that's not great. It's not terrible, it's like fine.

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Look how much keyboard this is. And it's so narrow,

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my thumbs are almost too close sometimes it's the opposite problem you have compared to

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when you're like typing on a tablet or something. Wow, and when you're watching video vertically, I mean,

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I guess if you're super into the YouTube comments, I confess I am the kind of person

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who will occasionally watch a video in vertical mode, just because it's a little bit more ergonomic.

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That is so little video on the screen. I mean, this is good though.

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Lots and lots of YouTube comments to read. So this is 22 by nine which actually is

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very, very close to the standard cinema aspect ratio.

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So that's why it was really hard for me to tell if it was cutting anything off the top,

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it might be, but it would be ever so slightly

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as long as you can get over the whole punch, which I think for something this wide

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is much easier to forgive, that's pretty great.

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(upbeat music)

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No way, Okay, that is disappointing.

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The wide aspect ratio screen was giving me an argument for watching movies on the go on this thing

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until I realized that's not an amplified ear piece.

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So it's mono audio just from the bottom firing speaker

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on this side here. There's no question that the cool factor is there.

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My problem is that with the fold, I had this compelling argument to make,

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if you needed a bigger screen, but only had a pocket to keep it in,

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this was your solution. So it was kind of like the laptop that way,

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it took a computer and put it in your backpack. And then the fold took a tablet

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and it put it in your pocket. Well, this takes a phone and puts it in your pocket,

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but just instead of being long and thin,

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its shorter and thicker. This is a last gen device, is a Note9,

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so it's actually very similar in terms of spec, but I am getting more screen for my dollar

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and actually more features things like the S pen. Let me know in the comments,

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if you want it to get the full LTT experience. But for now I think the flip is just one of those

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milestones along the way, two devices that make a lot more sense than it does.

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with our LTT orange and black colors on it. I don't know if they knew we were not gonna do a video

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on the LTT channel with it, but it was good effort you guys, thank you, you can check them out at dbrand.com below