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as one of the only weirdos who actually daily drive samsung's galaxy z fold

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three i've had a lot of people asking for my thoughts on the z fold four but

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until now i wasn't able to share them because this is my very first experience

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with it i haven't intentionally cloistered myself as i am apt to do to

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avoid spoiling any of the surprises and i'm really

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really excited to get my hands on

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okay there is one thing that i managed to pick up on and that's that they

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hadn't changed it much but boy did i ever underestimate

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how much it didn't really change much

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right out of the gate i see some bad news here first of all what is up with

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this ridge being sharper is anyone talking about that yet

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no included power brick no included

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cable even i don't even get a usbc cable

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oh look i had to make sure there's no cable in there i can't confirm there's

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wait oh maybe there's a oh yeah there's the cable it was hiding

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in here along with a sim removal tool and some warranty nonsense to be clear

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warranties are not nonsense very important we have a limited lifetime

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guarantee on the LTT Store backpack you can go

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get your order in today all right

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oh i need to clean my screen that is one thing that you'll notice if you start

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daily driving a foldable device is that the natural screen cleaning that takes

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place when you slide a phone in and out of your pocket

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well she don't happen on the main screen and so you have to remember to clean

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your screen at a time when you're not already using it right so let's go ahead

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and give it up something that i did on my fold three

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was the integrated screen protector started to peel unlike the earlier

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editions of the fold on the three you can peel it it just means that there's

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additional chance of damage to the screen it doesn't actually like rip it apart or

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anything like that i had hoped for more improvement to the crease it's better to

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be clear you can tell while they're both off it's deeper and it's wider on my

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fold three but the thing about the fold three which

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is the one in this hand i'm gonna have to keep clarifying that because boy do they ever not look that different is

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that i've been using this for the better part of a year

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another immediately noticeable difference can you tell that the full

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three in my left hand here can you tell that it's in a bit of a v shape when i

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have it unfolded okay that's something that i thought samsung had solved with

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the fold three because compared to my previous fold two it was very flat

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perfectly flat when i opened it up but what i'm seeing now is that whether it's

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the the the tension of the screen wanting to

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pull back up or whether it's the hinge wearing out

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something about samsung's hinge designs or making it so that they eventually

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start to smile a little bit i hope

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that the fold four is better it does feel stiffer

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it's got the same ipx8 water resistance but they say that the frame is now a

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more rugged and durable aluminum so it shouldn't scuff up as much which has

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been a problem for me dbrand who sponsored this video blessed their

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hearts does have skins for the fold series but as you can see they're on a

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phone like this where it's completely screened on one side

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half screen on the other side there's not a whole lot to skin so

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it hasn't really protected it from getting kind of beat up especially around the hinges here is it supposed to

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be thinner very slightly thinner you say i

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man i don't think they've changed the hinge much

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if anything i don't think the hinge actually closes

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as tight not as tall that's probably a good thing

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there's a lot of apps that end up looking pretty stupid on this super

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skinny tall display to be clear they haven't changed it a

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lot but this is a nice improvement the bezel

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here on the left side they've managed to expand the size of the front screen even

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more compared to the full two that's very likely to be a noticeable

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difference day to day yeah

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definitely a difference here why does this ad stay at the top on this

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one and not on this one i just i just want to show how having it be wider

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makes it easier to read more because it

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means there sure fine here so this takes six lines and this takes

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only five lines okay so you don't have to scroll as much

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god that shouldn't have taken so long okay the new phone also has other upgrades it

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uses a snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 has up to

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one terabyte of storage which actually i believe is the same as last gen 12

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gigabytes of RAM and uses corning victus plus for the front display obviously

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they can't use victus plus on the inside display because invictus plus is a stiff

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glass and this is more of like some kind of plastic composite film that is glass

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like in feeling but i haven't had any durability

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problems with the fold three even though i removed my screen protector okay i

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guess the screen protector starting to peel was a durability problem but since

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then i haven't gotten any scratches or scuffs on this thing and actually the

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the finger feel is a lot better it's a lot smoother with

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the with the naked display not that i would recommend switching

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over to it um screen protectors are a good thing

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the layout of the phone hasn't changed much you've got your same usbc charging

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port on the bottom it'll do up to 25 watts this time it'll do up to 15 watts

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wireless charging over on the right you've got your

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loose track of which one switch you got your volume rocker your lock button

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which has a built-in fingerprint sensor man every time i watch my wife unlock

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her i think it's s21 ultra or something like that every time i watch her try to

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unlock it with samsung's horrible ultrasonic underscreen finger sensor i'm

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like thank goodness i just have a traditional not under screen one it's

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uh over on the left side we've got our sim tray and then up on the top we've

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got a whole lot of not much else just just microphones and speaker shadow

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dbrand by the way they might have a bad attitude but darn it the products are

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good i've had this skin on my fold three and other than a little bit of damage

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that i did to the bottom here when i dropped it

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and here you can actually see the the nicks in the phone when i also dropped

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this so i ended up kind of kind of picking at it a little bit so that it

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wouldn't peel it looks as good as the brand new one

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right here on the brand new phone so if that doesn't tell you that their skins

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stick then i don't know how else to convince you one of the best things

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about dbrand skins though is not how they stick but rather how they don't

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stick when it's time to peel them off your phone looks brand spanking new they

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leave absolutely no residue whatsoever wow this piece of metal here for the

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hinge is actually dented and not one but two different places sorry sorry sorry

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um so they're a great way to protect your devices without causing any problems

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down the road they also improve the slipperiness of the device it won't keep

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you from dropping it outright if you're determined enough but definitely makes

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it easier to hold on to and with the brand's instructions they are super easy

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to apply so you can check them out at the link down in the video description it's dbrand.com

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Linus cd brand all you have to do is give me a nice vanity url nice talking

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points and i'll give you a nice read you scratch my back i scratch yours

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that was great

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short Linus no i refuse to read that short Linus no

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they can change my vanity url today they can change it it's going to be

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dbrand.com Linus and i expect to find something really nice there

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this is interesting watching a video whether it's in portrait or landscape

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mode gives you that pseudo tablet experience on both of them

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so the fact that the screen's a slightly different size and shape it doesn't

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really make that big of a difference but the software this is cool look at this

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i got all my crap down here on the new one i cannot wait for this update to

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show up on my fold 3. the hardware of the screen doesn't seem

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to have changed much it's still 120 hertz variable refresh rate 1200 nits

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peak brightness and with respect to the crease

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honestly the experience does not seem

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materially different to me i'd like to hear the speakers though

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good idea jk well

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they're still fine and they're still stereo which actually does make a really

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big difference like i said watch a lot of video on my fold definitely

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appreciate the stereo speakers supposed to be less distracting okay

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well let's uh let's open up the youtube app and let's go to a video then shall

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we yeah i'd say depending on the angle

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they have improved that it looks like the pixel density over top of the

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camera hole is a little higher just the

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desktop looks so overcooked

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look how deep the red is on that play store icon it looks like like juiced you

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can see it in the two chrome icons that does not look the same at all look how

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much more blue the text messaging one is on the new one

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compared to the old one like is that noticeable andy on camera

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and like the phone one but then i open up the same video in youtube and

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it looks fine no it's a little overdone it's just less

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noticeable and it's not something that i've looked at so many times

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alright i was supposed to that was the whole point of having the same video

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playing okay i'm a hot mess today okay how distracting i mean i clearly am

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not even noticing it the second i switch it stop the second i switch over to full

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screen oh yeah

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higher pixel density for sure and it's a

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smaller hole that is definitely less noticeable

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i don't think that when i'm watching content normally either of them is the

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sort of thing that i would notice but their engineers have clearly been hard

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at work it is better kind of curious what else has changed about the software but i feel like i got

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to take a look at the new camera first

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one of the big innovations on the z-fold 3 was that it was i believe samsung's

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very first through display camera well the fold 4

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apparently improves on this let's go ahead and fire up the camera app

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i have two capture buttons just little software things

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i'm glad i'm glad we've got this bottom row of icons on the new one but the

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software experience not perfect

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oh you know what ah man now i want to know if stories is supported yet okay

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one moment please sorry i'm getting distracted here wait what

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why is the shorts one not there shorts is supposed to work

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it might not make sense to you that samsung has invested so much in

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improving the small screen experience but as

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someone who actually daily drives one of these things i can tell you you're going

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to end up using the small screen a lot more than you probably realize typing

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even with the split keyboard on the full size screen

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honestly it's not the greatest and while it's amazing how thin samsung has made

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their fold series devices it is not the easiest to hold on to you

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know what i mean like it's whereas this

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is substantial you can like you can really grab onto it

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do they actually claim that the image quality changed or just that it's less

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distracting because this does not look any better if anything

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it looks ever so marginally worse although i can't necessarily trust the

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preview they say it's the same

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okay the rear camera is where we see one of

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the big improvements over the fold three it's gone from 12 to 50 megapixels on

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the main shooter and the telephoto shooter has gone from 2x optical zoom to

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3x zoom although it goes down from 12 megapixels to 10 but then again

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megapixels are not the be all and end all anyway

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it does 8k video who cares

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i give you my personal Linus tech tips guarantee that the 8k video won't look

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very good i'm having a hard time understanding this new interface here you said they do

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three times zoom on it now three times optical well they don't even

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have three x as like one of the default

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options here so what how do i switch lenses samsung

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okay NVIDIA i can

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looks like i'm just using the main shooter and digitally zooming no matter

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what i do what's up alex oh my god that looks

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terrible i'm gonna take that same picture on the fold three

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and then what we're gonna do is we're just gonna digitally zoom in and it's

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probably gonna look better wait that's the color

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i used the the 6x i used the 6x zoom

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and it's pretty bad

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well that's that's the thing the camera app's super confusing when you're in the

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photo mode it offers you one two

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four and six but they're all in four by three 50

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megapixels so that would seem to indicate that it's using

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the primary sensor now to be clear if you just like use one

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x mode it's fine but this six times zoom one look at how

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bad a job it does with skin tones here's belle that's

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yeah pretty much what he looks like that's not right

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a lot of what i'd like to say about the fold four is stuff that i wouldn't be

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able to figure out until i've daily driven it for at least a couple of weeks

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like one thing for example is my plex app on my fold three will often open

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to just a blank screen oh did it do it look at that i can't you can't script

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this stuff uh it'll often open to just a blank screen that could be on plex they

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definitely have bugs in their app

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but i've certainly noticed buggier

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behavior overall with my foldable device than what i would expect from a

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non-foldable device there's other things that samsung really can't do anything

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about they just need google or app developers to fix their shiz for example

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some apps if you open them in the front

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screen and then open up the main screen they actually

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don't expand until you click this button and the whole app relaunches so whatever

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it is you were doing wherever you left off you will lose your place and you'll

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just go to where whatever the home screen of that app is none of it's a

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deal breaker for me though because really it comes down to reading and

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productivity i just read more when i'm using one of these

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large screen foldable devices and for me that's that's actually a good thing and

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as for productivity man nothing beats being able to run

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something like you know teamviewer remote desktop application on a screen

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this size compared to a screen that's maybe 60 70 this size another thing

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samsung can't do much about is battery life they both have the same 4 400

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milliamp hour battery and it's oh

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k i started with 85 today it's 245 i'm at

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37 if i'd gone all the way to 100 which

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can reduce the longevity of your battery by the way i'd be sitting at about 52

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but i'm not really halfway through my day so i often find myself topping up

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the fold in a way that i wouldn't necessarily have to do with the device

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that didn't have such a large screen or that had a larger internal battery

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yeah overall i can't really complain about the soft

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wear the apps a little bit

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eighteen hundred us dollars they have gotta get the price down for these

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things sorry just told me the price man i mean

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it's a little cheaper than last time weren't they two grand last time

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is it the same ah ah yeah they're just

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not gonna penetrate the mainstream this way but front screen i'd say is the the biggest

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most worthy upgrade out of everything that i've seen here i don't need more

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performance not in a device like this i don't really use it for gaming but this

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is nice to have less bezel along the side here so that's that's pretty cool

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honestly the upgrade is so small even that it's not really worth the hassle

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for me to log into all my crap and install all my apps on this i think i'm

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just gonna keep using the full three which doesn't mean that you know if all

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things equal i wouldn't choose the fold four but it is a real pain in the butt

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to get all my crap set up again i just don't feel like it i do have to say

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though despite any negativity you guys might have picked up from me about the

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price or the differences compared to the last generation

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obviously with access to any phone in the world

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i still choose to daily drive a fold i

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believe in the concept i believe that samsung's execution is the best overall

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package so far and the only reason that i'm

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disappointed at all is because i'm i'm rooting for this technology i just want

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it to keep getting better but i feel like telling you thanks for

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