WEBVTT 00:00:02.530 --> 00:00:06.500 - You've already heard from the lovers, now you're going to hear from a hater. 00:00:06.500 --> 00:00:10.150 I love the Fold3, but the Flip series is one 00:00:10.150 --> 00:00:15.550 that I have never really been able to wrap my brain around. I mean, why go to all the effort 00:00:15.550 --> 00:00:20.360 of engineering a folding screen, just so that you can use a phone 00:00:20.360 --> 00:00:23.880 that fundamentally looks exactly like the one 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:27.270 that you've been using for the last four years? 00:00:27.270 --> 00:00:32.270 Everything from the thickness to the size of the display, 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:38.250 I mean, even the IO is, it's just the same. 00:00:38.250 --> 00:00:41.620 Let's take a look at this thing. Starting on this side, we've got our lock button, 00:00:41.620 --> 00:00:47.910 which doubles as a fingerprint sensor, our volume rocker, a noise-canceling microphone over here. 00:00:47.910 --> 00:00:51.010 We've got our SIM tray. Single SIM on this particular model, 00:00:51.010 --> 00:00:55.000 just one SIM card installs in there. Down at the bottom we've got more microphones, 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.800 a speaker, got a USB-C port. Everything about it, 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:02.330 it's pretty much your old phone, but new. 00:01:02.330 --> 00:01:06.440 Well, with the exception obviously being the folding display, 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:11.110 and Samsung has come a long way with their foldable screen technology. 00:01:11.110 --> 00:01:14.530 Unlike the first-generation ones, this screen is bright enough 00:01:14.530 --> 00:01:19.470 that I can comfortably use it outdoors. That was one of my big issues with the original Fold. 00:01:19.470 --> 00:01:23.310 The crease is still visible. In fact, I wouldn't really say 00:01:23.310 --> 00:01:28.670 that it's any less visible than it was before, but that part also never bothered me. 00:01:28.670 --> 00:01:33.570 The part of the hinge that did bother me was the fact that it acted as a point of ingress, 00:01:33.570 --> 00:01:40.160 which made it impossible for Samsung to rate these folding devices as water or dust resistant. 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:45.540 Well, that changes. The Flip3 is actually IPX8 water resistant. 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:50.230 So they're rating it in two meters of water for up to 30 minutes, if I recall correctly. 00:01:50.230 --> 00:01:53.570 Another key benefit of Samsung's latest generation foldable OLEDs 00:01:53.570 --> 00:01:57.580 is that they can run it up to 120 hertz, which means whether you're just swiping 00:01:57.580 --> 00:02:01.800 through notifications and home screens or whether you're gaming on the go, 00:02:01.800 --> 00:02:06.060 you're gonna get a much, much smoother experience. Now, something I'm actually not sure about. 00:02:06.060 --> 00:02:10.860 I know the first gen one wasn't 120 hertz, but was the Fold 5G 120 hertz? 00:02:10.860 --> 00:02:15.600 I'm trying to remember. - [Jono] We'll find out after. Here's a present from dbrand. 00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:19.150 - Apparently, instead of answering my question, 00:02:19.150 --> 00:02:23.074 I'm being given this present from dbrand. Do I need eye protection? 00:02:23.074 --> 00:02:26.810 - [Jono] No. - Well, you know how those guys are. Ow, ow, ow! 00:02:26.810 --> 00:02:29.343 How many do you have? Ow! 00:02:30.267 --> 00:02:36.710 - [Jono] It's for your birthday! - Oh, look at that. It's a birthday cake. 00:02:36.710 --> 00:02:40.803 I'm sure there's some kind of awful twist. 00:02:41.831 --> 00:02:45.687 - [Jono] Here. I want a piece. - [David] Me too. 00:02:47.270 --> 00:02:52.477 - [Linus] I think there's a phone in there. - [Jono] What are you talking about? 00:02:52.477 --> 00:02:56.654 - [James] Use your hands! - [David] No, I want a piece! Don't use your hands. 00:02:56.654 --> 00:03:01.720 Aw. (laughs) - Sorry, dbrand. You win some, you lose some. 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:07.273 I'm a pretty sharp character, and I think I can tell when there's a phone in my cake. 00:03:08.550 --> 00:03:11.860 David, does that look like a David size piece? - [David] That's way too big. 00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:15.650 - Really, David? - [David] Yeah, that's way too big. Give me like a third of that. - I don't believe you. 00:03:15.650 --> 00:03:19.580 David, you're not gonna like this. 00:03:19.580 --> 00:03:24.180 He actually wants a Flip3. - [David] Oh no. 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:29.640 - Did they bake it in? Oh, dbrand, dbrand, dbrand. 00:03:29.640 --> 00:03:33.853 Yeah, here. Sorry, you guys can see this while I unearth it. 00:03:34.870 --> 00:03:37.283 Oh, that's unfortunate. 00:03:38.177 --> 00:03:42.330 - [David] Is this the old one or the new one? - This is the old one. - [David] Is it waterproof? 00:03:42.330 --> 00:03:45.410 - No. - [David] Aw, bummer. 00:03:45.410 --> 00:03:48.520 - Ooh, it's cold. Was this in the fridge? - [Jono] (laughs) Yes. 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:52.610 - Oh my God, there's cake on the inside of it. "Have a birthday." 00:03:52.610 --> 00:03:55.790 Not a good birthday, just a birthday. 00:03:55.790 --> 00:03:59.310 I did. I did have a birthday, thank you. 00:03:59.310 --> 00:04:03.990 Thank you, dbrand. They've got an aged Linus face picture. 00:04:03.990 --> 00:04:09.580 Oh my God, does it still turn on? - Oh, hey, yeah! (men laughing) 00:04:09.580 --> 00:04:13.219 - This cake... Oh, that's awful. 00:04:13.219 --> 00:04:18.670 - [David] The hinge chocolate, no! - The hinge is all chocolate, boys. 00:04:18.670 --> 00:04:22.660 Why would they do this? Buy stickers from dbrand, I... 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:26.620 Oh my God. Hold on a second. Is this cake at least good? It smells really good. 00:04:30.010 --> 00:04:33.239 Oh, that is really good. Okay, David, you have to help me. 00:04:33.239 --> 00:04:36.555 You have to help me take this one. No, no, here's yours. - [Jono] Thank you. 00:04:36.555 --> 00:04:39.798 - [David] If you insist. - It's really good. - Very chocolaty. - Mm-hmm. 00:04:39.798 --> 00:04:44.250 With that complete derailment out of the way, dbrand makes high quality skins, cases, 00:04:44.250 --> 00:04:47.410 all kinds of good stuff for your phone, game console, 00:04:47.410 --> 00:04:50.620 pretty much you name it, they've got a skin for it. Check them out. 00:04:50.620 --> 00:04:53.950 I'm sure they are gonna have an awful insulting vanity URL 00:04:53.950 --> 00:04:57.760 down in the video description. Just click through to that and you can get your own devices skinned, 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:01.620 hopefully with something a little more attractive than this. One other big improvement to the screen 00:05:01.620 --> 00:05:05.260 is operation in kind of semi-folded mode. 00:05:05.260 --> 00:05:09.890 So you can see that if we put them both at the same angle, like let's say you're sitting 00:05:09.890 --> 00:05:14.630 and watching a teeny tiny little movie. Okay, like this. 00:05:14.630 --> 00:05:18.690 The new one, the Flip3, manages to tilt back that far 00:05:18.690 --> 00:05:22.150 without kind of rocking around. But if I were to bump this desk, 00:05:22.150 --> 00:05:25.730 you can actually see that the last gen one is gonna kind of teeter-totter, 00:05:25.730 --> 00:05:29.103 even though they're both at pretty much exactly the same angle here. 00:05:29.103 --> 00:05:33.080 So can you see that, David? So they've just adjusted the weighting a little bit 00:05:33.080 --> 00:05:36.510 to make it so that you can really put the hinge at any angle that you want. 00:05:36.510 --> 00:05:39.790 No movie is better with a teeny tiny screen. I mean, that's one of the reasons 00:05:39.790 --> 00:05:43.710 that I am super into the Fold series, 00:05:43.710 --> 00:05:46.930 but obviously not everyone wants to deal with the fact 00:05:46.930 --> 00:05:50.930 that the Fold is literally double the thickness 00:05:50.930 --> 00:05:55.310 of the Flip series. Like, if what you're after is the biggest possible screen, 00:05:55.310 --> 00:05:58.400 a folding screen has got you covered there with the Fold3. 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:04.550 And if what you're after is the smallest possible pocketable device, 00:06:04.550 --> 00:06:07.660 well, that's where the Flip3's strength comes in. 00:06:07.660 --> 00:06:10.093 Let's go ahead and try it. Will it fit? 00:06:11.730 --> 00:06:15.630 Yes, we could even fit another one. 00:06:15.630 --> 00:06:20.930 Maybe one of these. I mean, these pants have pretty big pockets though, so. 00:06:20.930 --> 00:06:24.140 There you go. How many diagonal inches of screen 00:06:24.140 --> 00:06:27.990 do I have in my pocket at this point now? Your answer... 00:06:27.990 --> 00:06:31.940 - [Men] Whoa. - A lot. But nothing I've said so far 00:06:31.940 --> 00:06:35.280 addresses why I declared myself to be a hater 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:39.740 when it comes to the Flip series. And that is because of the price. 00:06:39.740 --> 00:06:45.970 Last time around, the flagship Flip device was just shy of 1,500 US dollars. 00:06:45.970 --> 00:06:52.270 That's a lot to pay for, in my opinion, a user experience that is pretty much the same 00:06:52.270 --> 00:06:56.850 as a regular candy bar phone. This time around, the story changes. 00:06:56.850 --> 00:07:00.960 Now they're asking just over $1,000 for the Flip3. 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:05.290 Now, that's still a lot of money, but when you consider that flagship phones 00:07:05.290 --> 00:07:12.033 from Samsung's competitors like Apple are already at or above the $1,000 price point, 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:17.320 all of a sudden, well, it starts to make sense. 00:07:17.320 --> 00:07:20.950 Because instead of just being basically the same experience 00:07:20.950 --> 00:07:27.150 as my old phone, but for more, it's basically the same experience as my old phone, 00:07:27.150 --> 00:07:32.010 and now the folding is just extra. So it's still got a Snapdragon 888 processor. 00:07:32.010 --> 00:07:36.710 It's still got 8 gigs of RAM, 128 gigs or 256 gigs of storage, 00:07:36.710 --> 00:07:41.930 just like other flagship phones on the market, but it folds. 00:07:41.930 --> 00:07:46.650 That's not to say it doesn't have any disadvantages. If you were hoping to find a headphone jack, 00:07:46.650 --> 00:07:50.250 you won't find one here. It has a mere 3,300 milliamp power battery, 00:07:50.250 --> 00:07:53.710 which is on the low end for a flagship phone these days. 00:07:53.710 --> 00:07:59.470 And of course, because they're trying to build this thing to be as thin as humanly possible, 00:07:59.470 --> 00:08:03.560 because most of the time when you put it into your pocket or your bag or whatever else, 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.200 you're gonna have it folded, you're giving up some of the, 00:08:07.200 --> 00:08:11.340 well, some of the optical advantages of having a large camera bump, 00:08:11.340 --> 00:08:14.400 like you might have on a typical candy bar phone these days. 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:19.550 It does have two 12-megapixel rear shooters, as well as a single selfie camera, 00:08:19.550 --> 00:08:24.410 which can be digitally adjusted to accommodate a larger group of friends, 00:08:24.410 --> 00:08:28.070 if say, for example, you have them. I'll just put my ARM around someone imaginary, 00:08:28.070 --> 00:08:33.460 but I'm sure you would have a friend to take a picture with. And switching back to the rear, 00:08:33.460 --> 00:08:37.760 you've got just a regular, sort of regular lens. 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:40.370 And then you've got an ultra wide that is... 00:08:41.790 --> 00:08:46.170 Wow, that is extremely wide. 00:08:46.170 --> 00:08:51.050 It's basically fisheye. So I've got my finger here, David, 00:08:51.050 --> 00:08:55.290 just holding it by this corner. - What? - And my finger is in the frame right now. 00:08:55.290 --> 00:09:00.040 - [David] Whoa, wow. - Yeah, I mean, if you're into it, 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:04.650 then I guess that's an advantage. But if you're not gonna use that all the time, 00:09:04.650 --> 00:09:08.750 then I don't personally see that as an advantage. Another big advantage over the last Flip 00:09:08.750 --> 00:09:14.960 is that the exterior display is a lot bigger. So whether it's showing you charging indication 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.190 or the time or notifications, 00:09:18.190 --> 00:09:22.060 it's, in my opinion, a much, much more usable size. 00:09:22.060 --> 00:09:29.310 Though, I have to confess that personally, I find these types of mechanisms kind of gimmicky. 00:09:29.310 --> 00:09:33.280 The reality of it is for me, it's all about time-to-use. 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:37.660 So if this is in my pocket then it is just as fast for me 00:09:37.660 --> 00:09:41.780 to pull it out and flip it out and just be looking at the main display 00:09:41.780 --> 00:09:45.370 as it is to pull it out, see it... Like, what do I want, a pager? 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:49.580 Like, what year is it? Pull it out, look at this, then decide to open it up. 00:09:49.580 --> 00:09:53.000 That to me is not very realistic. But if you're the kind of person 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.470 that typically has your phone on the desk next to you, 00:09:56.470 --> 00:10:00.290 I could see it being useful. I just don't see it being that much more useful 00:10:00.290 --> 00:10:05.010 than just having it sitting there like that. One cool feature that Samsung's added this time around, 00:10:05.010 --> 00:10:09.180 although it's more of a software feature, is I think they call it care battery or battery care 00:10:09.180 --> 00:10:15.070 or something along those lines, but you can configure your phone to only charge to 85% maximum. 00:10:15.070 --> 00:10:19.430 It's something that it shouldn't give you a ton of stress if you 100% charge up your battery, 00:10:19.430 --> 00:10:24.310 but every little bit counts and your battery is under its most stress 00:10:24.310 --> 00:10:28.190 when it is completely charged, like that last 20% or so. 00:10:28.190 --> 00:10:32.060 So if it was me personally, I would actually use that feature, 00:10:32.060 --> 00:10:37.350 assuming that it was a convenient one for me to make use of. Now I wanna talk about one of the things that's different 00:10:37.350 --> 00:10:41.350 about this particular folding candy bar experience 00:10:41.350 --> 00:10:45.780 compared to a regular phone, and that is the extremely tall display. 00:10:45.780 --> 00:10:49.230 So it's a 22 by 9 aspect ratio, 00:10:49.230 --> 00:10:56.410 which basically means that cinematic content like this "Shang-Chi" trailer here, pretty freaking awesome. 00:10:56.410 --> 00:11:01.660 Almost anything else though is gonna have really, really large black bars. 00:11:01.660 --> 00:11:07.280 Now, something I wanna try out here is... ♪ Da-da-da-da-da-da-da ♪ 00:11:07.280 --> 00:11:11.100 Yes, it does have an amplified earpiece speaker, 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:13.750 so you can expect a good stereo experience out of it. 00:11:14.680 --> 00:11:17.870 Like, the compromises you're making for the foldability, 00:11:17.870 --> 00:11:22.870 they are there, but they're not nearly as there 00:11:23.010 --> 00:11:27.510 as they were even one generation ago. And the fact that the pricing is now coming down, 00:11:27.510 --> 00:11:34.550 it's like the one multiple device category where prices seem to be coming down rather than up. 00:11:34.550 --> 00:11:37.950 It's starting to get compelling. Something I didn't mention before, 00:11:37.950 --> 00:11:42.650 but that I noticed almost immediately, is that I do find between the taller display 00:11:42.650 --> 00:11:46.740 as well as the fact that the hinge gets in the way, the lock button and fingerprint sensor 00:11:46.740 --> 00:11:51.170 is a little bit out of the way for me to reach. From the bottom, I don't have very big hands, 00:11:51.170 --> 00:11:56.040 that's where my thumb comfortably rests. And it's a solid like centimeter and a half 00:11:56.040 --> 00:11:59.570 below where that lock button is. And I have to kind of, I have to shift. 00:11:59.570 --> 00:12:04.580 I like to have this corner of the phone in my palm and I have to shift it in order to access it. 00:12:04.580 --> 00:12:10.100 Not the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination, but it does mean moving the phone around in your hand more, 00:12:10.100 --> 00:12:13.280 which could increase the likelihood of drops. 00:12:13.280 --> 00:12:19.320 Samsung does seem to have kind of at least thought of this. So they're using Corning Victus glass in the design, 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:23.270 obviously not on this side, but fortunately the foldable screen 00:12:23.270 --> 00:12:28.270 is another area where Samsung has improved these a ton. There's actually an included screen protector 00:12:28.270 --> 00:12:31.750 that in my opinion feels almost as good as glass. 00:12:31.750 --> 00:12:35.160 Even last generation it was kind of like soft, 00:12:35.160 --> 00:12:41.200 like you could put your fingernail into it and it would have a clear indentation left behind. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.495 I mean, I'd say it's good enough, in my opinion. - [David] You should try folding it the other way, 00:12:45.495 --> 00:12:50.970 see what happens, - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bend, redo bendgate here. 00:12:50.970 --> 00:12:54.343 Anyway, thanks for watching. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.