ah mother flippin flip we're gonna unbox
a flippin phone today i'm comin into this as a complete flippin
newcomer i've actually never used i don't think i've ever used a a galaxy
fold either like a z fold like the big one and i've never used one of these
either the smaller flippy boys i did have a motorola razor
as you guys must have but i also had the even more impressive motorola sliver
that one had itunes enough about that we're here to look at the samsung galaxy
z flip four so i'm coming out as a newcomer i don't really get why you
would want this but there are people who love it apparently i think i heard that
it's the most popular folding phone in the world but uh we're gonna see we're
gonna we're gonna take a look at this with the fresh pair of eyes it's got an
icon of a backpack and then warranty repeating over and over
well i'll have to trust dbrand bro that
this uh skin protects the flip from drops and scratches and such because i
i'm a bit of a dropper of phones and that's all i'm gonna say
um okay in the in the case that's what is that all we have there's definitely
nothing else in here okay we do have some extra goodies
we got okay this is just a booklet telling you
to do stuff very cool a USB-C to c
charging cord no charger in the box you fools and onto the phone itself so this
uh design is apparently very very similar to the flip 3 that came out last
year but they've just kind of like done some refinements i think that the bezels
are a little bit smaller the actual thickness is less thick
and i believe that the cameras uh protrude out a little less but again
newcomer i don't really have the context for this so i'm gonna give you the
straight up raw experience of someone who's never used a flip phone before here we go let's flip it before i even
look at anything else how does it feel
just before we go any further i don't understand what the point of this is you
have a phone that's nice and thin it fits in your pocket and then what are
you gonna do with it you're gonna you're gonna double the thickness it fits
better it doesn't okay look at that
i'm standing here i don't even know that the phone's there to be honest it's so
thin now i'm gonna fold it in half oh i got this big weight in my pocket
look at this you can see it it weighs the same
yeah but it's more it's denser it's dense now look you can see it protruding
i don't want things to protrude at me now that we've established that uh let's
uh look at the exterior of the phone you know what this is funny i've heard so
much about the front glass and how
far they've come but like with the screen off that crease in the middle is
super noticeable and like maybe i won't notice it as much when the phone is
actually on but anyways we got the front of the phone with samsung's you know
their own folding glass uh situation with a i think it's got a screen
protector on it but they do have gorilla glass victus plus on the back uh display
here on the right side we've got a power
button that also looks like it's a fingerprint reader yep that is a
fingerprint reader on the side there next to the volume rocker on the top we
got a microphone i guess on this side
sim card tray that's not a dual sim speakers on the bottom usb type-c
2.0 which we spotted on the specs which is interesting i would i would expect
that you should have like at least 3.0 sometimes you have to make sacrifices to
have a completely unnecessary feature that doesn't make any sense i'm not a
hater this is the most popular folding phone in the world how does that make
sense is it is it is it people buying it
because they want to put it in their purses moving on we have uh i guess two other mics at the
bottom there and no headphone jack again makes no sense on the back we have two
12 megapixel cameras uh with dual pixel
face detection autofocus and on the front we have also a 10 megapixel
so interesting this is what i don't get either if like
it okay if i was gonna have a phone like this this is i guess this is the this is
the trade-off because they want to have a hinge that is strong enough that you
can like put it there and put it at any angle
you know there was another example in the in the pro product promo that they
had like someone using this like a camcorder like this
and they were like yeah oh we were in the 90s again and that's
that's dumb to me the the coolest thing about my old
motorola razor was the fact that i could kind of pick it up with one hand and
just like flip it up and this is like really annoying to me have it in my pocket
okay oh i have a call or something i take it out i have to like fully do that
or i have to use two hands i guess before we turn this thing on
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so we just charged this thing and it went from zero to 61 in like 10
minutes or something that seems crazy to me wait is it nothing set up
okay so we finished the setup process on the phone and there's a whole thing up
like a whole list of warnings that you have to think about now because you have
a foldable phone this stuff seems to be specific to the folding display when you
fold the phone make sure there's nothing inside such as a card keys or coins this
phone isn't dust resistant exposure to small particles such as sand may cause
damage and this like this is this still the
thing with this form factor again like the benefit just seems so small compared
to all the risks all the extra stuff like you can see here i would i just
noticed this i don't know how well you can see that but
there's like this little exposed hinge
and uh i feel it when i'm running my finger over there and like if i go fast
that could take some skin off it couldn't but it feel it doesn't feel
comfortable it feels like it's in the way so this phone is water resistant
ipx8 so immersion in any liquid other
than fresh water such as oh such as saltwater
alcohol can damage your phone uh you can immerse it in only water
it's i guess it's it's it can handle water immersion but there are little
bits where dust can get in all right we're in as i suspected once
the screen is on and you're looking at it kind of head-on you don't see this
the crease at all although as soon as you move it you kind of start to see ah
there she is
there it is you can't hide from me to me phones are tools okay i get a small
phone because to me there's greater utility in being able to use it
one-handed some people want a big screen because that's more important to them
than than being comfortable like they're fine like shifting the phone around in their hand in order to get their thumb
to certain places and i'm not judging them for that but i am saying they're
wrong i'm just gonna how many asides have i
stopped to do and talk about the stupid form factor it's not stupid it's fine
hey if you care about that kind of stuff you're probably going to care about the colors and let me tell you this thing
comes in in bora purple and pink gold
and blue and and graphite there's more
uh there's a bespoke edition for if you really want to just
impress people show off the gold gold frame yellow front white back and
there's other combinations as well um
okay one thing i am curious about is what this front screen can do because
apparently they've made some improvements to the uh rear display here
uh so what can you do with it that's my question how do i i thought you were
able to like swipe through things on oh there we go what
no play okay so there's a music player alarms i'm guessing you can't like set
alarms from there but it'll tell you when you have an alarm what's this audio
recording open phone to continue what's the point
of that interesting it has this the buttons ui
by default i thought that the gesture ui is just like default across the board
but samsung's holding on take it out of my pocket do that oh and then i can
swipe right away if i press the power button okay oh i'm in a dangerous situation i better
record audio and then oh delete recording discarded
that's okay so that right there that's a pretty cool use case for this tiny
little screen um what else a timer that's great a
calendar very useful you can unlock the phone while it's closed with your
fingerprint that's pretty cool oh nice okay so i was
wondering if you like because it's annoying to have to swipe through all of those to get to the end and you can
actually reorder them so if i want like the calendar up at the top then i'm
gonna do that nice all right let's play a music thing
and see if that shows up on the front screen playing okay we're playing music
now but you can't tell because i turned the volume off what does it show on the
cover there's a little music icon so if i tap the little thing it shows up
but if i lock
put in my put in my pocket bring it up
it should it should be the first thing that should be intuitive right these
guys were asking oh can you answer calls while it's
unfolded but at that point i mean first of all no probably not obviously like
the like the earpiece and this the mic are not right next to each other right now
so no you probably have to unfold it but at that point it's like why are we
asking about all these things that you can do with it's when it's
closed when you can just do that and take the call there are just so many
questions in the world
the other uh the flip three had uh dual front-facing speakers as far as i'm
aware this one does as well i'm at 4k now this is 120 hertz display
dynamic ammo led whatever that means 2640x1080
22x9 aspect ratio just like the last one so cinematic content is going to be good
now we have max
pretty good i refuse to do a more in-depth speaker
comparison for this phone because if you're really
concerned about the speaker quality on a phone that you're
be honest for you're primarily getting so that you can use it as jewelry in
your purse then you got your priorities messed up man back to the display it's
HDR 10 plus certified and it's got 1200
nits peak brightness for HDR you may have noticed me using the fingerprint
sensor quite a bit here and i have noticed that it is impressively fast
okay so i've ragged on this on this phone for some things so far but for the
most part the specs of it are actually really competitive with other flagship phones i
mean it's got the snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 which is the new flagship you know top
tier processor that you're going to see in most flagship phones coming out i
think it's got 128 gigs of storage and eight gigs at that uh 999 usd based here
i mean that's pretty impressive and as you saw we got the fast charging which is really nice although maybe part of
the reason that it was so good at the fast charging is because the battery is only 3 700 milliamp hours which is not
horrible but it's kind of like mid low mid oh another thing that i forgot to
mention when we were talking about the front screen here is the fact that
if you have this front screen on a foldable phone you want that to be able to take a selfie right this is a test
they better have camera shortcut mapped to double click on the power button that
should just be default disappointed just up oh
but it opened the inside that's stupid
i'm so confused we got the phone unlocked on the home screen okay
close the phone double click
it goes to camera never mind i guess it does work it
didn't do it the first time because it was deaking me out it was psyching me out if you want to get real dramatic
with it hello nice to see you
if i took a photo like this and sent it to you would you even know i took it on
a foldable phone that was folded in half tap to take photo
it looked like it was in portrait mode but it took a landscape photo oh right
oops i have to do this double tap to show full preview
oh there that's really dumb
right it's a 1.9 inch super amoled uh 512 by
260. i mean that looks remarkably sharp for
like i mean it's a tiny screen screen what do you expect yeah
just use the main camera for this don't use the top stubby
and you know it's a samsung camera so that's a little more washed out like
gray colors than i would expect let's take one on the regular
one on the ultra wide
that's really wide i mean you know i'm not gonna go spend too long in the
samsung photo app here because like you know they're kind of all the same they
have their cool uh extra samsung features modes for your for your camera
super slow-mo slow motion it can do 40 uh 4k at 4k at 30 or 60 FPS
and then various you know slow motion modes with your 1080p and 720p etc
as we said though uh one of the cool things about having a phone with a
flexi form factor is the fact that you can use these kind of different camera
modes here so i don't know if you can see when it's flat the viewfinder takes
up that much of the screen but if you bend it
it shifts now so that the viewfinder's up here and you got your controls down
here instead of holding it i could like put it down and now you know it's being
used as a phone stand and i can take that photo so there's one use you can also switch
which side the viewfinder is on by pressing this button so now this would
be maybe even better like this you know what i mean hook this around a
corner oh yeah that's what i like to see
we saw this video and we decided to take that out this says samsung although i am
kind of surprised that they put two uh 12 megapixel cameras on this when i
believe that samsung's s series
uh phones have much higher megapixels i think they have at least at least 50. i
think they might have a 64 megapixel on one of those
that makes this worse yeah no that makes more megapixels is stupid at that sensor
size oh i know that like more megapixels doesn't necessarily
equate to better photos i'm just saying that like you know that gives you greater flexibility if you want to like
zoom all the way in on something or whatever you know okay david
and if you're buying this one just for the camera you're making a mistake once again
i'm talking about you and because of the samsung phone they
changed their policy recently uh in terms of Android os updates and security
updates so this one is going to get the four years of Android os updates
that other samsung phones are getting as well as five years of security updates
but samsung is leading the way
in stupid form factors yes so this was my experience of a
foldable phone i think that you know basically my preconceptions about the
idea of a foldable phone were largely confirmed i still don't understand the
utility of having like a regular phone
that folds in half so subscribe to techlinked and to ShortCircuit i guess
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hey Linus uh dbrand sent over
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oh oh god oh my god yeah i'm kidding isn't it a nice skin though
that's uh very charming i wish it said trust me
bro can we get the trust me bro version