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I'm in the market for a new phone, mainly because I miss how great the

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Samsung Fold 4 was. And if you remember,

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the hinge kind of died on me, which is why Samsung actually invited us out to

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their unpacked event today to take a look at their Flip and their Fold 7,

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which is the one that I am most interested in because their biggest

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marketing point on it was just how thin the device is. And they are not kidding.

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When it's folded, it is about as thick as the S25 Ultra was that just came out

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a couple months ago. But when it's unfolded, it is almost impossible to

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describe how it feels and looks when

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you're using it. Being this thin, when I actually picked it up for the first

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time, it actually scared me when I started opening it because of how it

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feels when it finally snaps into place. It was a fear I had on my Fold 4 as

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well, is you have to use a lot of effort and it feels unnatural. The good news is

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they've made some upgrades at least to the hinge. It's called their Armor Flex

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hinge, which uses a water droplet design and multi-rail structure system. It

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allows it to also get thinner, but also removes some of the crease that you see

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on that folding screen. I never actually had an issue with that crease, at least

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when content was on on all the older devices. But even when it's off, you

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have to catch the light just right to see the actual crease. But if you catch

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the light where you can't see it, it looks really, really impressive. I'm

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getting a bit ahead of myself talking about the inside screen. Let's start from the outside and work our way in.

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The outside screen now is a 21x9 aspect ratio, very similar to just a standard

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slab phone. Because if you remember, the old folding phones were actually a

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little bit thinner, which now that I have it in my hand, this might be as

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wide as I would want this phone to be because one of the things I really liked

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about my Fold 4 was the one-handed typing experience with it being so thin.

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It's easier now to type with two hands, which the Fold 4 struggled with because

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it was so thin. I think it's a trade-off that is going to be a personal

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preference up to you. It's still that great dynamic AMOLED display that

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Samsung has been known for on some of their phones with the only thickness

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being added to this phone. Actually, on the inside screen, it's about 50%

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thicker, which hopefully leads to less scratches, less other damage to the

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screen. And on the outside, it's still using their Victus and Corning glasses.

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So, if you were to give it a quick bang on the table, hopefully it won't break.

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I won't do that cuz there's a lot of people watching me right now. As impressed as I am with the feel and how

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thin and light this thing is, it is 24 grams lighter than last year's, it still

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has my biggest pet peeve with phones.

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Look at the size of that camera bump. It's another half of a phone on top of

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it. It will never lay flat on your table

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unless you turn it upside down. If you're going to put it face down, at least put a screen protector on it like

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up. They make skins and cases for a ton of devices and they're pretty easy to

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apply.

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Then I just peel this off. There you go. Pretty easy to apply. If you guys want

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to get your own, head to my bosseshort.com.

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How you stop that? Well, I put a screen protector on it. It's okay now. But powering the phone is

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the Snapdragon 8 Elite 4 Galaxy specifically. They were very keen on

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that in the presentation. It's for Galaxy. It's faster. It does more AI.

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It's for the phone. They did say it'll give you 24 hours of video playback

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though on a single charge. How that translates to day-to-day use of playing

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games or having the big screen open and doing multitasking, I don't know. I hope

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it'll get you through a whole day. But the multitasking features seem really

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good and they seem to be a big focus again this year. When they were talking

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about it, they talked about things such as floating widgets. So, if you have

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your screen open on Google and someone texts you, moving the text messages

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around to navigate the data you're looking at or whatever other

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applications you want. They went a little hard on the AI this year, just like everyone else. My favorite quote

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they actually said was, "Remove unwanted things like people from your photos."

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That's kind of funny. It is also the first Samsung device that's shipping with Android 16 out of the box. And they

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promise 7 years of generational software updates and 7 years of security updates

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as well. Once again, that relies on if

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this hinge can hold up for 7 years. If

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it can, that's fantastic. But if I have to swap this out or get it repaired

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after 2 years, that's not great. Speaking of repair, one of the things

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that they did bring up was they wanted to improve the ability for users to

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repair their own devices. They didn't go any further into detail what that meant.

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I don't know if that means replacement parts on their store that you can buy or

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if their certified partners are going to be able to repair it themselves. If that

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becomes an available feature in any capacity that makes the user experience

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better, I am all on board for that.

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Especially if I have to repair these lenses because I'm putting it down and

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getting it clipped on everything. But I do want to take a look at the camera

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quality. Wow, it opens selfie mode and my god, do I really look like this

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today? It's a beautiful photo. We don't want to

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look at the selfie cam, though. We want to look at the outside cam, which is now a 200 megapixel main camera. That's the

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same as the S25 Ultra. They also have a 10 megapixel telephoto lens and a 12

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megapixel ultra wide lens. And hopefully whatever AI upscaling features they have

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for their photos as well will just make that even better. Let's take a look on that one. Let's do the ultra wide. Whoa,

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I went right in onto that guy's face. I am so sorry. I did 30x and it pointed

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right at someone's face. Let's zoom out a little bit. Let's try 20x. Right away

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on the wide lens, it's very impressive. I mean, I'm not in the greatest

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conditions. I'm shooting through a glass window. But even when I pinch zoom all

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the way in onto this one guy holding a phone, I can tell that there is

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upscaling and resolution work in order to get a crisp outline around his arm.

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But for most people who are going to look at this, if they wanted to like take a photo of a really far menu away

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and then zoom in, they're probably going to be able to read that with just fine

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clarity. With the ultra wide, same thing. I'm able to pinch zoom quite in

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depth all the way up to a certain point and then you can really see where the

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imaging around people's shoulders and it's trying to make a nice crisp line

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comes in and it kind of is too much in my opinion. But I also think if you're

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taking a photo on ultra wide and then pinch zooming this far in, that's kind

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of on you. And then as for the 20x zoom, which was one of just the default

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options, that is a billboard all the way across this giant warehouse. Pretty

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great actually. I actually thought it was a real person at first. Oh, it's a

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TV. Oh, whatever it is, it looks really good. I pulled up our re HDR demo

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footage, at least on the outside screen here first. And man, it is really

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impressive. It is very bright in this room just in general, and I can still

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see everything very clear. Again, I'm

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not a fan of whole punch camera designs. I wish they would just go to an

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underscreen camera anyways, especially cuz I feel that the amount of people

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that use this camera is pretty low because if you want to take a selfie,

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one of the best features is you could open it up and use your main camera to

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take a selfie and see yourself. It makes me wonder if they should just get rid of

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the camera on this outside screen and instead only have a camera on the inside

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screen because you want the big screen if you're doing like a video call with someone, right? And when you're in the

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full screen on YouTube, it's a little strange. It doesn't take away from the

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fact though that this screen looks incredible. We are indoors again. Bright

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situation. Man, I missed the big screen on a fold. I don't know if this is the

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one I should get though. I really want a folding phone again. We're going to play

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some Crab Rave because I'm a little scared with how thin this thing is that

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the speakers are going to be compromised now. But

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it's the same opinion I have with all phones. It's very impressive for its

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size. I would never listen to this thing on full volume, though. I feel like I

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need to crank it down to almost half

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before the speakers don't start to sound distorted or crackling to me,

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which I don't know, maybe if you're in a big room of people and you just want to quickly show them a video, it's fine.

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But consuming media on speakers, uh, I don't think I would personally. Glenn

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just asked where the speakers are actually located. Got it. Okay, so

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they're in the bottom half here. So, if I was holding it, yeah, I'm muffling the

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speakers. I didn't even like realize that now.

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Oh, I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, I don't I don't think they can

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put it up here, though, because just look how much room there is for the USBC. It's the entire like thickness of

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this thing. I mean, because of the increased screen size, it's almost a

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perfect square. So, maybe you could hold it like this so that way you're not blocking the speakers, but then I have

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like top and bottom channel. I don't know. It's still awesome to use in this

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form factor as the wide screen. You zoom all the way in. Holy crap. I'm 8x zoomed

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on Crab Rave. It's just a dark cave. Is

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this the folding phone that's going to bring me back into the foldables market?

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I don't know. It's $2,000 for 256 gigs

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of storage. And it can go all the way up to 1 TB of storage, which has 16 gigs of

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RAM as well. I don't know if the thinness is a selling factor for me or

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if it makes me a little nervous with the hinge and the extra camera bump, but I

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am very impressed with how far Samsung has come, especially even just in the

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last couple of years going back to my 4 or even back to 2019 with the Fold 1.

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But let me know what you guys think down below. If you guys enjoyed this video,

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go check out the Flip 7. That one either just came out before this video or just

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after this one. I don't know the order Bell's releasing these