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[groaning] I can't do it. But that's okay because

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Yoda was wrong. There is a try and it's in this box. I finally got my hands on

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the Galaxy Z Trifold and I have been daily driving the Galaxy ZFold 7 in

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preparation so I could be ready for this. But other than that, I have

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learned as little about this as humanly possible other than I read a couple of

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articles cuz I couldn't help it. I am so excited. Inside this box, I get case and

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accessory. Surprisingly honest. See, phones these days don't come with

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accessories. They just come with accessory if you're lucky. What's in

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here? USB 2 cable. Typical. Which is weird because this phone comes with

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freaking everything from a free screen protector replacement to a discounted

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full-on screen replacement to VIP treatment at Samsung service centers to

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even a dedicated helpline. And they couldn't include a USB 3 cable. Let's

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have a look at the case. If it's anything like every other folding phone

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case, it's going to kind of suck. But that seems to be real carbon fiber,

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which is pretty cool, huh? Is it though? It doesn't It's not light. It's a really

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convincing fake if it's fake. Is that it? Accessory was more honest than I

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wanted it to be. Since basically the beginning of my career as a tech

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YouTuber, I've been waiting for these future display technologies to finally

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make it onto devices you'd actually want to own. And I think I might have to wait

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a little bit longer while I find out if there's any more accessories in here. Ah, a 45 watt power adapter. Thank you,

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Samsung. But hey, at least it's included. That's That's pretty nice.

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Wow, the screen is so big. This is a tablet

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that folds up and fits in your Oh my god, I almost folded it wrong.

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Apparently, there's a warning if you fold it wrong, but I guess if it's not

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powered on, there's no warning. So, that's cool. That's good.

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It's a little heavy, but I think I could be convinced that it's a reassuring sort

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of heavy. And the difference in thickness is not too bad. You can kind

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of catch it, right? Like, you can kind of catch it on the thumb right there,

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but it doesn't distract when you're just holding the device. So, this one's 4.2

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mm, this one's 4.0, and this one's 3.9.

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It's so thin that when you fold it, it

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is still not that much thicker than the

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Fold 7. It's thicker, but like how did

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they manage to make the individual components even thinner and still manage

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to pack in a Snapdragon 8 Elite Galaxy edition? So, it's like kind of a tuned

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Gen 4 along with 16 gigs of RAM, up to a

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terabyte of storage, a 200 megapixel main camera. Actually, I can see how

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they pack that in. They just put a big camera pump on it. And it's IP48 water

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and dust resistant. This thing is incredible. Oh, there's four more

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cameras that I haven't mentioned yet. They've got a 12 and 10 megapixel that's

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ultra wide and optical telephoto at the back as well as two more 10 megapixel

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cameras. One on the cover screen and then another one as a hole punch on the

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main screen. We've got a USB type-C port and you can see this thing is as thin as

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anything could possibly be while still having a type-C port on it. We've got a

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speaker here. So, oh interesting. I see

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why they had to do that. But that's going to mean that it's optimized for

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vertical content consumption. if I want stereo sound.

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On the top, which is I guess the side, we've got another speaker as well as all

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the noise cancelling microphones. On the right, we've got a fingerprint sensing

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lock button. I can see that they've actually upgraded this a little bit compared to the ZFold 7. It sits a

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little bit more proud and it has like an indent here that allows you to landmark

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it a little more easily. I have a really hard time finding this for fingerprint sensing sometimes. As well as a volume

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rocker. And then over on the left side, we've got Oh, wow. A SIM tray. Huh?

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Apple couldn't put one in the air, but Samsung managed to put one in a trifold.

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Showoffs. Shut up. Dual SIM. And it has

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a 5600 mAh battery in there. Wow, I like

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it. I want to daily this thing so bad. Let's turn it on. Oh, and let's thank

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our sponsor, Dbrand. So, the funny thing, the Galaxy Z Trifold isn't

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actually available in Canada or the US right now, but for reasons that I'd

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rather not know, Dbrand somehow happens to have a stockpile of them. So, uh,

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shout out Dbrand for hooking us up. And also, shout out Dbrand for hooking one

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of you up. They are giving away a Galaxy

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Z Trifold right now over on their website. It is super simple to get a

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chance to win. All you got to do is place an order today. on the day this

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video goes up and you're entered. Any order placed since Christmas has also

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been eligible, by the way, including for their brand new Sketch 2D skins. They

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just launched these for a bunch of devices, including all the major

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smartphones, the Switch 2, the Steam Deck, AirPods, and yes, the Z Trifold.

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Wait, they're making Z Trifold skins for who? It doesn't matter. The point is, if

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you want to pick up some Sketch 2D skins and get entered to win a super rare

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trifold phone, you know where to go. Shortlinus.com.

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Oh my god, it's glorious. 10 in or as I

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call it, way too big. You don't need that. But I do.

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It's hard to get a proper sense of the scale next to these childlike hands. But

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like this is an iPhone 17. It's literally the guy she tells you not to

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worry about. Like look at this thing. It's a monster. Even when it's folded.

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Okay, it's a little on the chunky side. She wobbles even harder than an iPhone

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if you try to use her on the table. But like, you know, as a '90s kid, I'm

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looking at this form factor going, "Yeah, I could use that. Sure, I could do that." It is thick, though. 12.9 mm

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to be precise. But unlike other foldable devices, which in my mind are more

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useful for productivity or like retro

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content consumption cuz you know, you can find videos that are 4x3 aspect

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ratio. This actually unfolds in a way that genuinely gives you a bigger

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screen. Like when you expand this, you're not actually getting a wider

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picture than you already had, right? But when you expand this

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this is awesome. I would actually have to use the split keyboard though,

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which I don't bother with on my ZFold 7. Like I I'll just reach, but there's no

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way that I'm doing that on this. It does up to 120 Hz refresh rate, so you get

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that nice smooth scrolling. It'll do up

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to 1,600 nits HDR, which is pretty far

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off of the brightest displays these days, but more than acceptable for how a

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lot of content is mastered. And it'll actually do up to 2600 nits on the cover

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display, which we'll talk about later. And the resolution, which I haven't

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mentioned yet, is 2160x 1584. So, this is like having a taller,

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slightly above 1080p resolution, but at this size, that is really fine, man. and

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I like it a lot. The question is just do

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I like it in theory or do I actually like it in practice? See, I've been

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daily driving the GPD Win 5 lately. Cool handheld device, great performance. Lot

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of day-to-day practical issues though. And I do wonder if this would be full of

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the same things. See, unlike the Huawei Mate XT, which can be used on the cover

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screen like this, or with just two like this, or completely unfolded, the

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trifold can only be used either on the

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cover screen, which did I mention Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2? This stuff is

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incredible. Like, everything should be made of it. It's so hard to scratch.

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Going to put Zach from Jerry Everything Out of a Job. Yeah. So, either cover

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screen or the full screen. Also, oh, I

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didn't actually notice this before, but the Mate XT has a slightly wider, more

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media consumption friendly aspect ratio, too.

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Man, can you believe these are phones, dude? That's freaking nuts.

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That's also a really cool fold action, whereas this is like, ah, you know what?

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That's pretty satisfying, too. Oh, and how many times could you do that? I'm

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not going to test it, but somebody already did. What was it like 150,000

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folds they got to I think before it like really started to fall apart. There are

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some drawbacks to Huawei's design. It leaves the display edge exposed, which

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uh probably not the greatest thing for durability. What else can we say about

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the Samsung? They're using some kind of special super durable aluminum for the

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frame as well as titanium in the hinge. [laughter]

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I feel like I'm at my command station. I I got to look back and forth for my

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keyboard. All right, we're switched to a calibrated mode. Let's fire something up

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here. [snorts] This is insane

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for this to be something that you can carry around in your pocket. Like,

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see, I love the fold for spreadsheets.

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Here's our WAN topic checklist. So, here's what it looks like if I'm on a

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regular phone. That sucks. Boom. Now I can see all my, you know, what's going

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to be rapid fire, what's going to be main topic. is very usable, you know,

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but for content, it's just marginally larger than a regular phone. It is still

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a little bit larger than watching on the cover screen, just not by as much as you

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would want it to be. The point that I'm trying to get to is that yes, a Fold is

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a bigger content watching experience than a regular phone, but only

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marginally. So two is not double of one,

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but three is much, much greater than two, if that kind of makes sense. I'd

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say this is about like going from a 55 in TV to like a 75 in TV. It is an

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enormous difference in usability. Here's

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the challenge though. That looks great. Wow. Is that incredible or what?

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Freaking love it. But we're basically asking people instead of carrying around

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a sort of folding phone that is still about the size and weight and shape of a

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phone. We're asking people to carry around a tablet that does fold but isn't

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really the typical weight of a phone

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anymore and certainly not the typical thickness. The more I hold it, the more

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I think the thickness could be a dealbreaker for some people. I mean,

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let's think about what is successful out there in the market. There are phones

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that are this thick. In fact, we covered one of them on ShortCircuit quite

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recently. It had like what is it like 3 weeks of battery or something like that

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that it was rated for that exists, but very few people choose to buy that. So,

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in a world where products like the iPhone Air aren't necessarily massively

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successful, but clearly people have rejected super thick devices, I do

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wonder if this is going to struggle to find an audience. That's a cool feature.

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Here it is. If you uh start to fold the wrong way, it's all like, "No, no." when

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it and it vibrates and stuff. We should try the speakers. I was not a fan of the

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positioning of them, but who knows? Maybe they'll blow me away with their quality. Oh my god, how awesome is that?

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Okay, but like how usable is it from like a Can you like No, you can't really

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like use it as a stand or anything. Yeah, that's [music] that's not going to

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be a thing. Okay, that's a little disappointing because one of the features that Samsung is touting for

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this is the ability to use Dex, their

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desktop experience for the first time without connecting to an external

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monitor. You can just use Dex, plug in a keyboard, mouse, and just [music] go.

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They also t the multitasking as a major feature. So, here we can we can actually

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do that right now. So, you can either multitask like you would on a regular

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Samsung device where you just [music] uh go into the multitasking interface

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and you just be like, "Yeah, sure." Or you can create a desktop layout like

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this. Ah, yes. Wonderful. Boop. And then also a [music] browser. Yes. Success.

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And then you can do like like window snapping and stuff. Oh, yeah. I still

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haven't tried the speakers. Yep. Those

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are definitely where the speakers are. So, that's something. I mean, it

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prevents you from accidentally blocking them with your hands, so that's a plus.

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I don't know what I expected, but no base. Um, they they didn't have a lot of

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room to work with. They're a compromise. What about the cameras, though? Fold 7

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cameras. Actually been pretty happy with it. Clearly not as good as my wife's

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iPhone, but fine. Oh, we're going to have no context. We're on a new set.

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Well, all right. Hm. I don't need a lot of context to know that this is not the

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finest camera that I've ever seen. But what I can tell you [music] is that boy

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am I ever going to be able to look at that picture bigger than I ever have

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before. Look at that quality right there. Pretty decent detail retention.

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It's not terrible, but it is worth noting that 200 megapixels does not mean

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that it is, you know, 200 times the quality of a 1 megapixel camera. That's

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just not how that works. Even a little bit washed out colors, but not bad.

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Dynamic range is actually pretty okay as well. Very usable. What about video

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though? Can you imagine someone going around recording video like this? Recording portrait video like this. So

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awful. Okay. Anyway, so this is how you'd record landscape video. Look at

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the black bars. Oh lordy. They need to use Apple square sensor technology or

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something like that because that is uh not the greatest experience what I'm

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doing right now. Yeah. In typical Android fashion, motion handling just

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isn't as good as an iPhone. But colors, other than being over juiced just a

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little bit, not that bad. Oo, how about the selfie camera? Well, how about the

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selfie cameras? There's a couple. So, first we've got our hole punch. Oh, wow.

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Oh, that's hilarious, right? See, cuz the camera is over here. So, if you hold

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it centered, it's like that. Okay, I can do better then. That's not bad. How

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about the cover one? See, I'm just imagining myself pulling this out at

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like my grandparents place when I'm trying to show them pictures and they go, "Oh, let me get my glasses." and

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they like can't see anything I'm showing them. If I could just boom, grandma and

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grandpa cool picture of, you know, your daughter or cool video of your son

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playing volleyball or whatever. Game changer. Really looking forward to

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trying this. Can already tell there's going to be some little buggginess in

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the experience. And also, Samsung, what is this? Someone help me out. I need a

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tech tip because I've got mirroring for my icons and there doesn't appear to be

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a way to have them be over here where my

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thumb is. So, if anyone has a tech tip in the comments, please hit me up

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because I do not want them there. But I do want to use mirroring. Oh, yeah. I

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never actually tried the case here. We'll put that on.

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Yep. That thing that goes over a

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fraction of the device. Cool. But what does it all cost? Well, there is no US

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availability and therefore no US pricing yet. And same goes for Canada where I

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am. But we can convert the pricing from Korea and it works out to about $2500,

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which puts it pretty close to the Mate XT Ultimate. Not that, as far as I know,

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you can even get this outside of China or this outside of South Korea anyway,

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so it's not like you'll exactly [music] be shopping between the two of them. [snorts]

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I think that's all I can say for now without really trying to daily drive the

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thing. Will an Android tablet, because you know how popular those are, be

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enough to be worth carrying around a brick of an Android phone for? What a

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question. Moon pies. What a time to be

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