WEBVTT 00:00:05.239 --> 00:00:11.280 [groaning] I can't do it. But that's okay because 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:15.759 Yoda was wrong. There is a try and it's in this box. I finally got my hands on 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:20.560 the Galaxy Z Trifold and I have been daily driving the Galaxy ZFold 7 in 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:24.160 preparation so I could be ready for this. But other than that, I have 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:28.160 learned as little about this as humanly possible other than I read a couple of 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:34.640 articles cuz I couldn't help it. I am so excited. Inside this box, I get case and 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:37.840 accessory. Surprisingly honest. See, phones these days don't come with 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:42.079 accessories. They just come with accessory if you're lucky. What's in 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:45.760 here? USB 2 cable. Typical. Which is weird because this phone comes with 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:50.480 freaking everything from a free screen protector replacement to a discounted 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:55.360 full-on screen replacement to VIP treatment at Samsung service centers to 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:58.559 even a dedicated helpline. And they couldn't include a USB 3 cable. Let's 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:01.680 have a look at the case. If it's anything like every other folding phone 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:06.479 case, it's going to kind of suck. But that seems to be real carbon fiber, 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:10.799 which is pretty cool, huh? Is it though? It doesn't It's not light. It's a really 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:15.600 convincing fake if it's fake. Is that it? Accessory was more honest than I 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:19.119 wanted it to be. Since basically the beginning of my career as a tech 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:22.720 YouTuber, I've been waiting for these future display technologies to finally 00:01:21.119 --> 00:01:26.960 make it onto devices you'd actually want to own. And I think I might have to wait 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:32.159 a little bit longer while I find out if there's any more accessories in here. Ah, a 45 watt power adapter. Thank you, 00:01:30.479 --> 00:01:36.479 Samsung. But hey, at least it's included. That's That's pretty nice. 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:41.439 Wow, the screen is so big. This is a tablet 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:43.920 that folds up and fits in your Oh my god, I almost folded it wrong. 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:47.439 Apparently, there's a warning if you fold it wrong, but I guess if it's not 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:52.240 powered on, there's no warning. So, that's cool. That's good. 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:56.560 It's a little heavy, but I think I could be convinced that it's a reassuring sort 00:01:54.560 --> 00:02:00.000 of heavy. And the difference in thickness is not too bad. You can kind 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.920 of catch it, right? Like, you can kind of catch it on the thumb right there, 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:10.239 but it doesn't distract when you're just holding the device. So, this one's 4.2 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:13.360 mm, this one's 4.0, and this one's 3.9. 00:02:10.239 --> 00:02:17.280 It's so thin that when you fold it, it 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:21.520 is still not that much thicker than the 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:23.040 Fold 7. It's thicker, but like how did 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:28.000 they manage to make the individual components even thinner and still manage 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:33.920 to pack in a Snapdragon 8 Elite Galaxy edition? So, it's like kind of a tuned 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:36.319 Gen 4 along with 16 gigs of RAM, up to a 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:38.879 terabyte of storage, a 200 megapixel main camera. Actually, I can see how 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:44.160 they pack that in. They just put a big camera pump on it. And it's IP48 water 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:47.120 and dust resistant. This thing is incredible. Oh, there's four more 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:52.400 cameras that I haven't mentioned yet. They've got a 12 and 10 megapixel that's 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.760 ultra wide and optical telephoto at the back as well as two more 10 megapixel 00:02:54.239 --> 00:03:00.239 cameras. One on the cover screen and then another one as a hole punch on the 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:04.800 main screen. We've got a USB type-C port and you can see this thing is as thin as 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:10.800 anything could possibly be while still having a type-C port on it. We've got a 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:12.879 speaker here. So, oh interesting. I see 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:17.120 why they had to do that. But that's going to mean that it's optimized for 00:03:14.959 --> 00:03:22.400 vertical content consumption. if I want stereo sound. 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:27.200 On the top, which is I guess the side, we've got another speaker as well as all 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:30.560 the noise cancelling microphones. On the right, we've got a fingerprint sensing 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:36.319 lock button. I can see that they've actually upgraded this a little bit compared to the ZFold 7. It sits a 00:03:34.239 --> 00:03:39.280 little bit more proud and it has like an indent here that allows you to landmark 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:44.560 it a little more easily. I have a really hard time finding this for fingerprint sensing sometimes. As well as a volume 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:48.159 rocker. And then over on the left side, we've got Oh, wow. A SIM tray. Huh? 00:03:46.239 --> 00:03:54.480 Apple couldn't put one in the air, but Samsung managed to put one in a trifold. 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:58.400 Showoffs. Shut up. Dual SIM. And it has 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:00.959 a 5600 mAh battery in there. Wow, I like 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:05.760 it. I want to daily this thing so bad. Let's turn it on. Oh, and let's thank 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:10.560 our sponsor, Dbrand. So, the funny thing, the Galaxy Z Trifold isn't 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:15.920 actually available in Canada or the US right now, but for reasons that I'd 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:19.919 rather not know, Dbrand somehow happens to have a stockpile of them. So, uh, 00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:25.600 shout out Dbrand for hooking us up. And also, shout out Dbrand for hooking one 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:27.759 of you up. They are giving away a Galaxy 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:31.360 Z Trifold right now over on their website. It is super simple to get a 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:35.280 chance to win. 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But I do. 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:18.160 It's hard to get a proper sense of the scale next to these childlike hands. But 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:21.199 like this is an iPhone 17. It's literally the guy she tells you not to 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:26.880 worry about. Like look at this thing. It's a monster. Even when it's folded. 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:31.440 Okay, it's a little on the chunky side. She wobbles even harder than an iPhone 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:35.680 if you try to use her on the table. But like, you know, as a '90s kid, I'm 00:05:34.479 --> 00:05:43.440 looking at this form factor going, "Yeah, I could use that. Sure, I could do that." It is thick, though. 12.9 mm 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:49.440 to be precise. But unlike other foldable devices, which in my mind are more 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.360 useful for productivity or like retro 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:56.320 content consumption cuz you know, you can find videos that are 4x3 aspect 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:59.280 ratio. This actually unfolds in a way that genuinely gives you a bigger 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:03.840 screen. Like when you expand this, you're not actually getting a wider 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:08.639 picture than you already had, right? But when you expand this 00:06:06.479 --> 00:06:13.199 this is awesome. I would actually have to use the split keyboard though, 00:06:10.479 --> 00:06:16.960 which I don't bother with on my ZFold 7. Like I I'll just reach, but there's no 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:22.319 way that I'm doing that on this. It does up to 120 Hz refresh rate, so you get 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:26.240 that nice smooth scrolling. It'll do up 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:28.400 to 1,600 nits HDR, which is pretty far 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:32.639 off of the brightest displays these days, but more than acceptable for how a 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:36.319 lot of content is mastered. And it'll actually do up to 2600 nits on the cover 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:40.400 display, which we'll talk about later. And the resolution, which I haven't 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:46.479 mentioned yet, is 2160x 1584. So, this is like having a taller, 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:53.199 slightly above 1080p resolution, but at this size, that is really fine, man. and 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:55.039 I like it a lot. The question is just do 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:59.520 I like it in theory or do I actually like it in practice? See, I've been 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:04.560 daily driving the GPD Win 5 lately. Cool handheld device, great performance. Lot 00:07:02.479 --> 00:07:08.400 of day-to-day practical issues though. And I do wonder if this would be full of 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:14.160 the same things. See, unlike the Huawei Mate XT, which can be used on the cover 00:07:11.440 --> 00:07:19.840 screen like this, or with just two like this, or completely unfolded, the 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:21.599 trifold can only be used either on the 00:07:19.840 --> 00:07:24.960 cover screen, which did I mention Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2? This stuff is 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:28.240 incredible. Like, everything should be made of it. It's so hard to scratch. 00:07:26.880 --> 00:07:34.960 Going to put Zach from Jerry Everything Out of a Job. Yeah. So, either cover 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:37.120 screen or the full screen. Also, oh, I 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:43.520 didn't actually notice this before, but the Mate XT has a slightly wider, more 00:07:40.880 --> 00:07:46.520 media consumption friendly aspect ratio, too. 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:55.039 Man, can you believe these are phones, dude? That's freaking nuts. 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:59.599 That's also a really cool fold action, whereas this is like, ah, you know what? 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:02.800 That's pretty satisfying, too. Oh, and how many times could you do that? I'm 00:08:01.039 --> 00:08:06.639 not going to test it, but somebody already did. What was it like 150,000 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:10.639 folds they got to I think before it like really started to fall apart. There are 00:08:08.479 --> 00:08:15.360 some drawbacks to Huawei's design. It leaves the display edge exposed, which 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:18.960 uh probably not the greatest thing for durability. What else can we say about 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:23.700 the Samsung? They're using some kind of special super durable aluminum for the 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:26.960 frame as well as titanium in the hinge. [laughter] 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:30.879 I feel like I'm at my command station. I I got to look back and forth for my 00:08:29.039 --> 00:08:35.440 keyboard. All right, we're switched to a calibrated mode. Let's fire something up 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:40.640 here. [snorts] This is insane 00:08:38.640 --> 00:08:47.200 for this to be something that you can carry around in your pocket. Like, 00:08:43.839 --> 00:08:49.360 see, I love the fold for spreadsheets. 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:53.519 Here's our WAN topic checklist. So, here's what it looks like if I'm on a 00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:56.320 regular phone. That sucks. Boom. Now I can see all my, you know, what's going 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:02.399 to be rapid fire, what's going to be main topic. is very usable, you know, 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:05.760 but for content, it's just marginally larger than a regular phone. It is still 00:09:04.160 --> 00:09:10.080 a little bit larger than watching on the cover screen, just not by as much as you 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:15.519 would want it to be. The point that I'm trying to get to is that yes, a Fold is 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:21.760 a bigger content watching experience than a regular phone, but only 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:24.320 marginally. So two is not double of one, 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:28.399 but three is much, much greater than two, if that kind of makes sense. I'd 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:35.600 say this is about like going from a 55 in TV to like a 75 in TV. It is an 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:37.680 enormous difference in usability. Here's 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:41.440 the challenge though. That looks great. Wow. Is that incredible or what? 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:46.399 Freaking love it. But we're basically asking people instead of carrying around 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:50.320 a sort of folding phone that is still about the size and weight and shape of a 00:09:48.800 --> 00:09:57.360 phone. We're asking people to carry around a tablet that does fold but isn't 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:59.680 really the typical weight of a phone 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:03.680 anymore and certainly not the typical thickness. The more I hold it, the more 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:07.440 I think the thickness could be a dealbreaker for some people. I mean, 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:11.279 let's think about what is successful out there in the market. There are phones 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:14.640 that are this thick. In fact, we covered one of them on ShortCircuit quite 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:18.720 recently. It had like what is it like 3 weeks of battery or something like that 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:23.040 that it was rated for that exists, but very few people choose to buy that. So, 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:27.920 in a world where products like the iPhone Air aren't necessarily massively 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:32.000 successful, but clearly people have rejected super thick devices, I do 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:36.160 wonder if this is going to struggle to find an audience. That's a cool feature. 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:39.200 Here it is. If you uh start to fold the wrong way, it's all like, "No, no." when 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:43.200 it and it vibrates and stuff. We should try the speakers. I was not a fan of the 00:10:41.920 --> 00:10:49.040 positioning of them, but who knows? Maybe they'll blow me away with their quality. Oh my god, how awesome is that? 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:53.839 Okay, but like how usable is it from like a Can you like No, you can't really 00:10:50.880 --> 00:10:56.720 like use it as a stand or anything. Yeah, that's [music] that's not going to 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:03.279 be a thing. Okay, that's a little disappointing because one of the features that Samsung is touting for 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:06.240 this is the ability to use Dex, their 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:10.240 desktop experience for the first time without connecting to an external 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:14.240 monitor. You can just use Dex, plug in a keyboard, mouse, and just [music] go. 00:11:11.839 --> 00:11:17.519 They also t the multitasking as a major feature. So, here we can we can actually 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:22.399 do that right now. So, you can either multitask like you would on a regular 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:26.800 Samsung device where you just [music] uh go into the multitasking interface 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:32.640 and you just be like, "Yeah, sure." Or you can create a desktop layout like 00:11:29.680 --> 00:11:37.120 this. Ah, yes. Wonderful. Boop. And then also a [music] browser. Yes. Success. 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:42.880 And then you can do like like window snapping and stuff. Oh, yeah. I still 00:11:39.680 --> 00:11:45.279 haven't tried the speakers. Yep. Those 00:11:42.880 --> 00:11:48.880 are definitely where the speakers are. So, that's something. I mean, it 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:53.000 prevents you from accidentally blocking them with your hands, so that's a plus. 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:00.240 I don't know what I expected, but no base. Um, they they didn't have a lot of 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:03.920 room to work with. They're a compromise. What about the cameras, though? Fold 7 00:12:02.079 --> 00:12:09.040 cameras. Actually been pretty happy with it. Clearly not as good as my wife's 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:14.800 iPhone, but fine. Oh, we're going to have no context. We're on a new set. 00:12:12.800 --> 00:12:18.959 Well, all right. Hm. I don't need a lot of context to know that this is not the 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:23.040 finest camera that I've ever seen. But what I can tell you [music] is that boy 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:26.639 am I ever going to be able to look at that picture bigger than I ever have 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:29.839 before. Look at that quality right there. Pretty decent detail retention. 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:35.279 It's not terrible, but it is worth noting that 200 megapixels does not mean 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:38.639 that it is, you know, 200 times the quality of a 1 megapixel camera. That's 00:12:37.040 --> 00:12:43.519 just not how that works. Even a little bit washed out colors, but not bad. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.800 Dynamic range is actually pretty okay as well. Very usable. What about video 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:52.079 though? Can you imagine someone going around recording video like this? Recording portrait video like this. So 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:56.639 awful. Okay. Anyway, so this is how you'd record landscape video. Look at 00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:01.600 the black bars. Oh lordy. They need to use Apple square sensor technology or 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:04.959 something like that because that is uh not the greatest experience what I'm 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:09.440 doing right now. Yeah. In typical Android fashion, motion handling just 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:12.480 isn't as good as an iPhone. But colors, other than being over juiced just a 00:13:11.040 --> 00:13:16.880 little bit, not that bad. Oo, how about the selfie camera? Well, how about the 00:13:14.959 --> 00:13:22.000 selfie cameras? There's a couple. So, first we've got our hole punch. Oh, wow. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:26.959 Oh, that's hilarious, right? See, cuz the camera is over here. So, if you hold 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:30.800 it centered, it's like that. Okay, I can do better then. That's not bad. How 00:13:28.560 --> 00:13:34.160 about the cover one? See, I'm just imagining myself pulling this out at 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:38.959 like my grandparents place when I'm trying to show them pictures and they go, "Oh, let me get my glasses." and 00:13:37.680 --> 00:13:43.040 they like can't see anything I'm showing them. If I could just boom, grandma and 00:13:40.959 --> 00:13:47.040 grandpa cool picture of, you know, your daughter or cool video of your son 00:13:44.959 --> 00:13:50.959 playing volleyball or whatever. Game changer. Really looking forward to 00:13:48.959 --> 00:13:55.680 trying this. Can already tell there's going to be some little buggginess in 00:13:52.800 --> 00:14:00.079 the experience. And also, Samsung, what is this? Someone help me out. I need a 00:13:57.680 --> 00:14:05.279 tech tip because I've got mirroring for my icons and there doesn't appear to be 00:14:02.160 --> 00:14:06.959 a way to have them be over here where my 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:10.320 thumb is. So, if anyone has a tech tip in the comments, please hit me up 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:13.279 because I do not want them there. But I do want to use mirroring. Oh, yeah. I 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:19.519 never actually tried the case here. We'll put that on. 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:22.240 Yep. That thing that goes over a 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:27.279 fraction of the device. Cool. But what does it all cost? Well, there is no US 00:14:25.199 --> 00:14:31.519 availability and therefore no US pricing yet. And same goes for Canada where I 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:38.000 am. But we can convert the pricing from Korea and it works out to about $2500, 00:14:35.680 --> 00:14:42.160 which puts it pretty close to the Mate XT Ultimate. Not that, as far as I know, 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:45.920 you can even get this outside of China or this outside of South Korea anyway, 00:14:44.560 --> 00:14:50.880 so it's not like you'll exactly [music] be shopping between the two of them. [snorts] 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:55.440 I think that's all I can say for now without really trying to daily drive the 00:14:52.959 --> 00:15:00.000 thing. Will an Android tablet, because you know how popular those are, be 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:06.480 enough to be worth carrying around a brick of an Android phone for? What a 00:15:02.959 --> 00:15:08.160 question. Moon pies. What a time to be 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:11.199 alive. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.