1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,080 Today, Samsung has one job, actually two jobs. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:09,160 First, they have to convince me that upgrading to the Fold 5 is gonna be worth the hassle 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:14,960 of moving all of my apps and settings and logins and all of that crap over from my Fold 3 daily driver. 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,120 Second, they have to convince me if that I'm gonna go to all that effort, 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,640 I should go with the Fold 5 rather than the Pixel Fold, 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,840 which is, I was gonna say one of the hottest devices 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,120 on the market right now, but that's a little on the nose. 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:35,240 So let's have a look. Wow, that is a lot heavier than I was expecting. 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,680 Got my handy Jerry Rig Everything knife, available on lttstore.com. 10 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:44,720 Is this an actual hard hat? Am I about to get glitter bombed by Dbrand? 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,000 Whatever this is, is in a lot of pieces. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,160 Those appear to be glass shards. 13 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:57,080 Did Dbrand actually ship me a box of glass shards? 14 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:04,040 This is not the smart way to do this. 15 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,760 One of these days, Dbrand is gonna mail me a corpse 16 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,080 or something, they're gonna take it too far. 17 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:19,800 The Galaxy Z Fold 5 then. It's got everything the Z Fold 4 had, but more better. 18 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:26,080 So all the latest goodies from Samsung, including the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy processor, 19 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:31,400 which means that essentially it's a little bit overclocked compared to a regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 20 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,920 up to 12 gigs of RAM, Android 13, up to a terabyte of storage. 21 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,440 That is if you have 2200 US dollars 22 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:45,200 burning a hole in your pocket. No included accessories to speak of, that's right. 23 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,440 We not only don't get chargers, we don't get cables, we don't get, oh, we do get a cable. 24 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:54,120 Oh, look at that. Ha, a USB-C charging cable 25 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,320 that probably won't even do data transfer. Thanks, Samsung. 26 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,680 I should say thanks, Apple, for the industry trend that you started. 27 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,400 It also won't do any data transfer if the phone's not on. Let's get this thing fired up, shall we? 28 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaking of which, charging is a strength of this device. 29 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,640 It charges from zero to 94% in an hour, 30 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:17,880 according to our data from the lab. That is, does that work out, to 17% more 31 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,000 than the Pixel Fold in the same amount of time, which is pretty cool. And that's not the only thing about it 32 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:27,880 that's better than the Pixel Fold. We measured gaming performance that was anywhere from 20% faster than the Pixel Fold 33 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,080 to nearly double, which is flipping impressive. 34 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,760 Oh, that would have been a great pun if only I was covering a completely different phone. 35 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,560 Okay, it's a USB-2 data transfer cable, so good job, I guess. 36 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,920 Before we get into any more performance stuff, I just want to take a closer look at this. 37 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:49,140 Right out of the box, I can say it is significantly flatter 38 00:02:49,140 --> 00:02:53,280 than the Pixel Fold was, even similarly, right out of the box. 39 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,760 Although Samsung's hinges have not always had 40 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:02,520 a perfect track record for me for staying flat. This is my Fold 3, and this is how flat it is now. 41 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,240 You might actually be able to see this better in the top-down curve. Yeah, yeah, not that flat. 42 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,760 You kind of can give it the ol' eh, you know, eh. 43 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,340 But even then, see? But of course, this is a new hinge design 44 00:03:14,340 --> 00:03:17,780 that hopefully is more durable and stays flatter longer, 45 00:03:17,780 --> 00:03:22,700 but most importantly, is zero gap now. 46 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:26,420 I mean, where I'm from, that's not zero, 47 00:03:26,420 --> 00:03:32,980 but I will give them credit. That is a lot smaller than the gap on the older phone. 48 00:03:32,980 --> 00:03:36,380 So this is the three in my hand, and this is the five. 49 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:41,420 And that's gonna help with ergonomics when you're using the external screen. As someone who actually daily drives one of these things, 50 00:03:41,420 --> 00:03:45,020 I can tell you, you're gonna find yourself using the external screen a lot more 51 00:03:45,020 --> 00:03:50,260 than you probably think. That was one of the biggest issues with the first gen, aside from the super dim inner screen. 52 00:03:50,260 --> 00:03:53,940 So for the outer one, we're looking at a 6.2 inch HD plus display. 53 00:03:53,940 --> 00:03:57,000 It runs at anywhere from 48 to 120 Hertz, 54 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,820 an adaptive refresh rate mode that helps both make it feel more smooth 55 00:04:00,820 --> 00:04:06,260 and helps it save power. They claim it'll do up to around 1700 nits peak brightness 56 00:04:06,260 --> 00:04:09,300 in HDR mode. Unfortunately, we don't have a way to do HDR testing 57 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:14,500 just yet, but we were able to measure it in SDR mode, which is pretty flippin' bright. 58 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:18,140 And of course, it's got a pinhole camera, just like we've seen on the last several generations. 59 00:04:18,140 --> 00:04:22,240 As for how good it is, I suspect it's fine. 60 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:24,460 Hello, here's my selfie. 61 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:30,820 One thing to note is Man Samsung is applying a lot of processing to their selfie pictures 62 00:04:30,820 --> 00:04:33,820 these days by default. Yvonne took a couple of pictures of us 63 00:04:33,820 --> 00:04:37,280 at a wedding recently, just like, you know, taking selfies. 64 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:40,860 She's like, wow, it's a really good picture. I'm like, yeah, because it applied makeup, 65 00:04:40,860 --> 00:04:44,780 it embiggened our eyes, it reduced all our wrinkles. So I turned all that stuff off 66 00:04:44,780 --> 00:04:49,260 because she had just reset it to default. And we took another picture and we're like, 67 00:04:49,260 --> 00:04:53,780 yeah, we're pushing 40 pretty quick. Anywho, let's flip open to the internal display. 68 00:04:53,780 --> 00:04:58,780 This one is 7.6 inches, 2176 by 1812, 69 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:02,620 also 120 Hertz, and also apparently capable 70 00:05:02,620 --> 00:05:06,580 of 1700 nits peak brightness. Now, one of the biggest differences 71 00:05:06,580 --> 00:05:11,940 between the Pixel Fold and the Galaxy Fold series is, of course, the aspect ratio of the internal display. 72 00:05:11,940 --> 00:05:16,500 The Pixel Fold is meant to be open more like a wallet. You know, it opens up into landscape, 73 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:23,340 whereas the Galaxy Fold goes from portrait to slightly less portrait. 74 00:05:23,340 --> 00:05:26,980 Personally, I've got to say, I kind of prefer this approach, 75 00:05:26,980 --> 00:05:30,500 just because I find myself more often than not, 76 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:35,500 if I am watching video content, kind of reading comments and scrolling down below, 77 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:38,720 which is one of the main benefits of having a gigantic screen. 78 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,300 And I also find this aspect ratio really great for remote desktop. 79 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:47,940 Pretty much no matter what aspect ratio, the monitor of the system you're remoting into is, 80 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:52,940 this fits reasonably well. All right, she's bright. 81 00:05:52,940 --> 00:05:56,740 Can't confirm, wow, those whites are eye-searing. 82 00:05:56,740 --> 00:06:01,180 One thing I can tell you hasn't improved over previous gens is the screen protector. 83 00:06:01,180 --> 00:06:05,940 It has the same, if not quite glass kind of feel to it, 84 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:09,500 but that doesn't mean that I would necessarily recommend removing yours. 85 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:13,740 Mine started to peel at the hinge, and so I did eventually peel it up. 86 00:06:13,740 --> 00:06:19,060 It's not like the first gen where you can't do that. You can, and it does have a nicer glass feel to it, 87 00:06:19,060 --> 00:06:22,740 even though it's still not glass. But what eventually happened to mine is, 88 00:06:22,740 --> 00:06:26,540 if you look closely, my display is actually cracking. 89 00:06:26,540 --> 00:06:29,660 So here, let me just see if I can open something not incriminating here. 90 00:06:29,660 --> 00:06:34,580 I'm sure Alpha Cool's website. You can actually see there's like micro cracks. 91 00:06:34,580 --> 00:06:38,660 Can you hear it? Can you hear the noise? That's a bummer. 92 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:43,460 It seems to be the very top layer, either cracking or delaminating a little bit. 93 00:06:43,460 --> 00:06:47,900 And hopefully they're continuing to improve this display technology, 94 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:52,780 generation by generation, but it does mean that even if you really like the phone, 95 00:06:52,780 --> 00:06:54,840 I would have to caution you, and maybe, 96 00:06:56,340 --> 00:07:00,420 I don't even know how long to tell you guys to wait, because this one was over a year 97 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:04,820 before it started to do that. So it's not like you could just wait. 98 00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:08,620 I mean, there'll be a new one, and then you won't even know if that one has any game breaking issues. 99 00:07:08,620 --> 00:07:11,660 One thing that has been good on mine though, is the IP rating. 100 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:16,140 I regularly use it in the shower, accidentally get water on it, go out in the rain, 101 00:07:16,140 --> 00:07:20,980 all that kind of stuff, and I have had zero issues with it, other than it warning me not to charge 102 00:07:20,980 --> 00:07:25,180 when there's water in the port. And the Fold 5 is rated at IPX8, 103 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:30,660 meaning that all of those same use cases should be fine, but don't take it into the ocean. 104 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:35,180 I have high hopes for the rear shooters though. That's something that could potentially convince me 105 00:07:35,180 --> 00:07:38,620 to move on from my Fold 3. Are they really gonna be much better? 106 00:07:38,620 --> 00:07:42,660 Oh, we have different zoom levels now though. What are we looking at for cameras? So the main's 50 megapixel, 107 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:46,740 12 megapixel on the ultra-wide, and 10 megapixels on the telephoto. 108 00:07:46,740 --> 00:07:51,540 Ooh, we got some significant improvements here. 109 00:07:51,540 --> 00:07:55,420 Yeah, look at that. Okay, I mean, yeah, Bell's interesting, 110 00:07:55,420 --> 00:07:59,620 but forget about Bell for a second. You can't even make out these stitches here. 111 00:07:59,620 --> 00:08:03,620 Huh? Definitely capturing more detail. 112 00:08:03,620 --> 00:08:07,340 Hard to say if it's a significantly better sensor, or if it's just better processing, 113 00:08:07,380 --> 00:08:10,940 but wow, that text is way more readable. 114 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:14,500 Another improvement over the Fold 4, let alone the Fold 3, 115 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:19,260 is that even though the processor is faster and the battery is the same at 44 milliamp hours, 116 00:08:19,260 --> 00:08:22,260 Samsung claims that they're able to get another hour 117 00:08:22,260 --> 00:08:25,380 of battery life out of it, just due to improved efficiency. 118 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:30,540 Let's see how that kind of shook out for us. We do have some Labs data, but like I said, we don't have anything for Fold 4 119 00:08:30,540 --> 00:08:36,220 because we don't have one on hand right now. What we did have for comparison is the Pixel Fold though. 120 00:08:36,220 --> 00:08:40,540 And that does not tell a very compelling story 121 00:08:40,540 --> 00:08:44,540 for the Fold 5's efficiency. It got walloped. 122 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:48,300 I'm talking an hour of extra time in the stress test 123 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:52,020 for the Pixel Fold. With that said, using the external display 124 00:08:52,020 --> 00:08:55,780 for video playback, we got an extra four hours on the Fold 5 125 00:08:55,780 --> 00:08:58,900 compared to the Pixel Fold. So it's a mixed bag at best, 126 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,420 and the same goes for performance. We showed you guys some gaming numbers earlier 127 00:09:02,420 --> 00:09:06,420 that have the Fold 5 absolutely walking all over the Pixel Fold. 128 00:09:06,420 --> 00:09:11,860 But when it comes to productivity, actually their app launch times were surprisingly close 129 00:09:11,860 --> 00:09:15,460 when you consider how much slower theoretically 130 00:09:15,460 --> 00:09:18,700 the Pixel Fold is compared to Samsung's latest. 131 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:22,860 I mean, realistically, if you want the absolute most in performance, you're probably just gonna get an iPhone, 132 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:27,020 but that's a whole separate conversation. I mean, we can side load. 133 00:09:27,020 --> 00:09:31,100 We can side load, baby. Ah, man, I guess that's just general ergonomics. 134 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:34,140 They haven't really changed much, to be honest with you. 135 00:09:34,140 --> 00:09:37,620 It's exactly as handle-able as the previous gen device. 136 00:09:37,620 --> 00:09:42,220 In fact, if you didn't tell me that I was holding a different one, I probably wouldn't notice. 137 00:09:42,220 --> 00:09:46,020 Like, yeah, it's a little bit shorter, but so was the last gen that was already the case. 138 00:09:46,020 --> 00:09:50,460 I guess just to help it be a little bit less top-heavy. Oh, how's that pinhole camera? 139 00:09:50,460 --> 00:09:54,940 Actually, I'm very curious about that, both from a transparency standpoint 140 00:09:54,940 --> 00:09:57,940 and from an image quality standpoint. Mm. 141 00:09:57,940 --> 00:10:02,800 Okay. It's poo poo, just like it was before. 142 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,940 Awesome. Basically looks like there's something 143 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:10,380 smudged all over the screen, which there pretty much is, all your pixels. 144 00:10:10,380 --> 00:10:14,620 As for how noticeable it is, that's better. 145 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:17,700 I don't know how to describe it, other than to say that the mesh 146 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:21,180 is noticeably finer on the new model. Oh yeah, we never really talked 147 00:10:21,180 --> 00:10:25,100 about the buttons on the outside. So you got your lock button, which has a fingerprint sensor. 148 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:28,100 I cannot say how much I love having a fingerprint sensor 149 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:32,500 button compared to an on-screen fingerprint sensor. Like, especially Samsung's. 150 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:37,060 It uses ultrasonic tech rather than a camera, and it's just slow. 151 00:10:37,060 --> 00:10:40,380 This is so fast. I mean, okay, obviously, I can't show you on this one, 152 00:10:40,380 --> 00:10:44,780 but I'm sure it won't be any worse than this. So you basically just unlock the phone, 153 00:10:44,780 --> 00:10:49,940 and it's on, it's great. Volume rocker, SIM tray, 154 00:10:49,940 --> 00:10:53,020 noise canceling mics, other more different mics, 155 00:10:53,020 --> 00:10:55,740 stereo speakers, USB-C for charging. 156 00:10:56,740 --> 00:10:59,740 I like the feel of the hinge, but I always like the feel of the hinge out of the box. 157 00:10:59,740 --> 00:11:04,660 So I'm like, I'm gun shy about saying it's good, right? Cause I said this one was good, and I loved it. 158 00:11:04,660 --> 00:11:08,740 And then it turned into a piece of crack. 159 00:11:08,740 --> 00:11:14,060 Piece of cracked. Other than the camera, I'm not really seeing a whole lot to upgrade to here. 160 00:11:14,060 --> 00:11:18,060 I'm definitely not gonna go with the Pixel Fold, not with some of the issues that have been coming out around it. 161 00:11:18,060 --> 00:11:22,340 First gen woes, you know? But for me, it basically just comes down to, 162 00:11:22,340 --> 00:11:28,340 I really like having a phone that I don't have to worry about. Just like, whatever. 163 00:11:28,340 --> 00:11:32,660 It's so beat up already. Cause I've accidentally dropped it so many times. 164 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:37,340 That has a value to me. Cause I can just give it to my kids knowing 165 00:11:37,340 --> 00:11:40,660 that they're probably gonna drop it, and I can, you know, whatever. 166 00:11:40,660 --> 00:11:45,700 Whereas this, it's all pristine, I feel like. I don't think the gap is a big deal to me. 167 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:48,900 I don't mind the gap. That's why I fall on the subway. 168 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:53,260 Sorry, what are we talking about? Watch ShortCircuit, subscribe.