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samsung's unpacked 2021 event is happening right now we're gonna have it

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linked in the video description so you guys can check out all the big announcements there's the new galaxy

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watch four series galaxy buds two there's a new flip but for me

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the big one is the galaxy z fold 3 5g

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this is their third generation flagship foldable and if you're a long time

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viewer you will know that i am absolutely jacked to get my hands on

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this thing and an absolute first i actually get to look

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at it early although i only have a couple of hours to get through it in as

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much detail as possible before unpacked is gonna go live so without further ado

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we are gonna rip this thing open and take this baby for as hard a test drive

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as i possibly can obviously one of the

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big highlights is the under screen

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camera okay it's not turned on yet but i'll show you in a sec

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conspicuously absent from the unboxing experience is

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an included charger that's right my friends just a cable and instructions

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for how to use either the single sim or dual sim tray depending on what your

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phone has so if we're going to criticize apple for it then we have to hold

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samsung to the same standard though to samsung's credit they do have some

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launch bundles with some pretty good value ads now i have a bit of a concern

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i have not actually fired this up yet Jake prepped the device and i don't see

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anything about this externally that would indicate that i actually got

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a new fold this looks

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oh no oh it's got a wider speaker grille here

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okay i had a little i had a little panic

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moment there i thought maybe they put a fold two uh default two in the box but

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no you can see we've got a clearly different camera array and we ended up

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with the black version now the hinge

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that was one of the biggest improvements from the first gen to the second gen was

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the hinge way more robust this time i'd

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say it's got if anything actually even a slightly tighter springier feel to it it

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feels even better but the big improvement is that the hinge is now

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waterproof actually i lied samsung gave up and decided that it was impossible to

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waterproof the hinge because of the moving parts and i can see what they

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mean but because they wanted to give the galaxy z fold 3 a waterproof rating of

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ipx8 they independently waterproofed the two

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separate parts of the phone then they actually treated the internals of the

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hinge with both an anti-corrosive and lubricating agent to ensure that even if

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water does inevitably leak inside it it

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will continue to operate so let's go ahead they rate it for

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one and a half hours 30 meters down so theoretically everything should be fine

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wow that is extremely dirty water i probably should

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have washed out this container before i put it in there but

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uh i mean should i go for gold should i fold it

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okay

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holy schnikeys world's first waterproof

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foldable ladies and gentlemen okay with its biggest challenge out of the way

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let's dry it off and talk about the under screen camera i want to get the

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big questions answered first here andy i mean i didn't have to do the water demo

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first but you know i like to live dangerously right

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okay you too can get a great phone drying shirt at lttstore.com all right so when

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you're watching classic shows you're either stuck with a hole punch in your

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4x3 content or you've got a black bar and you're not making use of that giant

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screen that you paid so much for i'm hoping that this will completely

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eliminate that problem so let's go ahead and fire up some 4x3 content

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there it is yup it goes right over top

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interesting so samsung has taken a bit

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of a different approach than i might have expected with their hole punch

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camera like it doesn't have the full resolution

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of the display in front of it not even close come take a look at this

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so they've actually got a much much less dense matrix of pixels here can you see

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that andy so you can actually clearly see through it which actually makes

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sense because that's exactly how the transparent xiaomi tv also worked where

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the pixel density was much lower it was only 1080p which by modern standards is

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pretty small for a 55-inch display but that decrease in density allows it to be

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more see-through and it was more transparent one direction than the other

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which is probably exactly how this one's arranged

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so it's more transparent from the back and then we see the lit pixels now

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i can spot it obviously like i can see it from this distance away

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but what it isn't is nearly as distracting as a hole in

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the content off-axis i can really see it but when i look at it straight on like

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if i'm just watching i'm not going to notice it especially

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with sdr content like this where the resolution is pretty low

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anyway that is a crazy big difference especially when you consider that the

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screen's only a little bit bigger at 7.6 inches but that image because we're not

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stuck with that stupid black bar it's way bigger whatever i'm jacked i'll

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rewatch the whole ducktales series now of course underscreen cameras with good

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transparency have existed for some time now the real question is how does that

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camera that's hiding in there perform now back when the z-fold 2 came out i

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questioned the inclusion of this camera at all because i was like well if you

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want to take a selfie you can use this one and just use the screen on the front

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and if you don't want to take a selfie then you should use the main camera but

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there are lots of applications that do kind of require a camera on the screen

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that you're using and one of samsung's big focuses with this device was use

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cases like this so whether you're in a video conference and you've got all the

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participants down here and then you've got whatever you're presenting up here

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or whether you are i mean really a video conference would be one of the main

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applications for that you are going to need a front-facing camera so let's go

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ahead and flip it around see how it does and it's

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not perfect in fact one of the weaknesses is immediately noticeable

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hold on i'm going to record video so okay this is for sync so you guys can

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see what i'm talking about is you can actually see

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distortion so that purple that purple glow is there

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that's real but this distortion from this light source is not something that

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i would expect to see on a normal selfie camera and in fact we're going to use

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the old samsung galaxy z full 2

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to compare to it so you can see you can actually see the red green and blue

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pixels distorting this bright light source as

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it's coming in and you can see the marked difference in sharpness between

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these two cameras of course nobody's buying a phone with an under screen

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camera for you know the best in picture quality but it is something that you

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guys should know okay now let's put it in a situation that's a little bit more

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favorable like here where i don't have a

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particularly bright light source behind me and i'm kind of sitting at my desk

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using my phone as a as yeah okay

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huh now that is cool samsung is clearly

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doing some kind of post-processing to increase the sharpness here and you

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could tell it couldn't do it when it had that strong backlight but now the

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difference in sharpness between these two cameras

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not that much when i'm not in motion

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when i hold still you can see it kind of sharpens up

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that's really cool huh don't you love technology i sure do

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how much thinner is it

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it is almost exactly the same

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i wouldn't describe it as noticeable in day-to-day use but they managed to get

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the external screen ever so slightly larger while also slightly reducing

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the width of the phone as a whole man it's it's barely noticeable though

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can you even tell the one at the back should be a touch

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taller yeah it's like slightly taller not much

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one of the other things samsung was really proud of was the grade of aluminum that they used on the device it

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does feel really nice to the touch

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but one of the demos they did was they whacked it against a regular piece of

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aluminum and showed that only the regular raw aluminum was marked by that

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interaction unfortunately they didn't compare it to any of the other hardened

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aluminum alloys that we know of so i don't know you know how it compares to

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allies because no one would use raw aluminum in a device like this

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now let's talk about one of the other big upgrades both the fold 2 and fold 3

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have 120 hertz high refresh rate displays on the inside but only the fold

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three has a 120 hertz display on the outside so if like me you find yourself

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using it in like well they call it candy bar mode in candy bar mode a fair bit

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when you're just sort of quickly replying to a message or something like

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that you're going to get that nice responsive experience regardless of

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which display you want to use man this is something they've really improved

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since the original fold a lot the experience of going from the outside

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display to the inside one that's the more common use case where you'd have an

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app open like here let's say the play store you just go like this boom

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now we are in the the folded experience now normally apps will close when you

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close it but you probably noticed on my fold too that plex continued playing

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that video earlier that's because you can configure certain apps to stay

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running when you fold the device it just assumes that in most cases you're

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folding it up because you're ready to put it away and you want the display to turn off

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there's lots of things that just look that just transition so much better like

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here okay so here we go let's transition

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boom look at that and samsung talked a lot about partnerships and how they're

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optimizing apps for the full 3 experience so youtube for example has

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apparently gotten an optimization where you can do

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go like this hey there you go you can watch on here while you scroll comments

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because you want to subject yourself to that for whatever reason down on the

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bottom screen and let's see can we even reply

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look at that we can type our little reply hello

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now if i bought a device like this i really don't think that i would end up

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watching content like that very often i'd be all about that big screen

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experience but your mileage may vary

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one thing your mileage may vary about is whether you like samsung's vivid display

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profile come on guys look at mine and riley's

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lips we look like we're wearing lipstick can you see that ridiculous let me get

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that fine-tuned i realize we've gotten this far without really talking speeds

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and feeds so in the u.s it's going to have a snapdragon 888 processor 12 gigs

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of RAM and 256 or 512 gigs of

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non-expandable storage it's gonna have wireless charging fast charging but not

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like crazy super fast charging and then outside of the us it's gonna have an

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exynos 2100 processor now according to some testing from gsm

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arena they found that the exynos and snapdragon this generation are pretty

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close in terms of performance but

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the exynos variant does tend to thermal throttle faster and harder so that's

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something that unfortunately i don't have enough hands-on time with it in

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order to test right now but could be something to watch out for if you're

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outside of the us other key specs it's got a 4400 milliamp

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hour battery nano sim slot fingerprint sensor over here on the right just like

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the full two and of course a whole whack

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ton of cameras so on the back we have three 12 megapixel shooters a wide an

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ultra wide and a telephoto then on the cover we have a 10 megapixel and on the

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inside that is just a 4 megapixel built

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into the display so it's really intended for video conferencing where it's going

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to end up destroyed by compression anyway and not for you know taking the

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most you know beautiful duck face selfies you

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know what i should try i should try all the different cameras here oh you can

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choose apps that will continue on your cover screen when you close your phone look at that it even prompts you to do

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that thing i was telling you about well camera for one

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uh definitely netflix and plaques choose

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a color tone for your selfies natural yeah

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and they have a little motion photo feature now kind of like the iphone that's cool i'm expecting this to be

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much better

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did i get it oh yeah i got it i look ridiculous oh yeah you can really tell

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on that under display one check this out andy so there's under display

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and there's not under display that's a lot sharper and that's the main

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shooter now something they didn't talk about much in the briefing actually

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really at all now that i think about it but that was a big difference from the

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fold one to the full two with screen brightness it was really dim on the fold

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one to the point that it was kind of difficult to use outside and that's something that i'd like to see if they

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improved here oh wow that looks a lot better i'm

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surprised they aren't talking about this

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trey's interesting let me make sure that both displays are actually set the same

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because right this one's probably still in vivid mode oh this is cool right

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here's yet another large screen optimization that they've made even

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something as simple as the settings menu now has the sub menu over on one side

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see that so if you've got your oh i don't know let's say display settings if

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i can find the bloody thing there we go here it would just show it to you on the

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whole screen and then you'd have to go back here you can just click through all

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these different menus and sub menus and then you can go ahead and play around

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with them in here so let's go ahead and change screen mode to natural

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there we go now they're actually looking very very similar

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it looks a little brighter to my eye not a ton though i wouldn't think

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yeah i can see why they wouldn't talk about it if it's that close another big

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feature compatibility with the s pen now there

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are two versions of the s pen there's the fold edition and then there's the s

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pen pro and it looks like they've sent me the s pen pro although i didn't have

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pictures of them in my pre-briefing material so i'm doing my best with it

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but given that the s pen pro has an integrated battery and this has a type c

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port on the back for charging i'm assuming that it's this one by the way

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as soon as i change it over to natural the color grading on this video looks

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fine just fine so thank you very much samsung for at least just making it one

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click to go back to a proper screen mode okay only s pens designed oh

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interesting only s pen is designed for your galaxy fold other s pens will

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damage the screen set it to z fold mode before using it on

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your fold okay so there's a little switch here boop

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okay okay and so that immediately starts just

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passively working this is another perfect example of i can definitely see

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the camera if i look for it but if i'm not looking for it i don't notice it

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hello wow responsiveness is extremely

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high so extremely light strokes it does

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struggle with a little bit but wow

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wow my uh you can see why i never write anything

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my penmanship not the best but

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that is really responsive

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now obviously people are going to want to

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know will an old s pen work so i guess we're

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going to find out oh it yells at you

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it says no no you may not

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okay what if i have this one close and then i touch it with this one

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no i'm not liking uh i think there's a

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writing to text thing here let me try this actually

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testing okay yeah it works um writing to text is a feature that they talked about

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a lot in the pre-briefing i don't see it as useful for myself personally i type

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extremely quickly using the on-screen keyboard especially the excellent one that

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samsung includes with a really well thought out split

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but for people who you know let's say right in chinese or korean where it can

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be a little bit more challenging to input text with a keyboard

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it looks like a great feature it's just one that's not that applicable to me so

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here's their split keyboard you can use swiftkey with a split keyboard there are

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other third party keyboards but this was a case of a first party keyboard

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actually not being abhorrent to me so i ended up keeping it with the z fold too

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let's see i mean this is kind of an interesting use case

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so you can kind of okay i'm trying to write

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upside down it's going to be really confused type i may have managed to

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but that's kind of neat does the faux three come with a string protector this

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time okay that's a complicated question to answer so the full two came with a

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screen protector that made the screen feel really plasticky and unpleasant and

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i actually removed it and did not end up

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being able to scratch it at all in my in my daily use of it

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so i was but it is does still have a protective layer on it so it doesn't

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feel quite like glass because it's more of a plastic it has to

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fold you know the three

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does appear to have a bit of a ridge right at the edges

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but what i will say about it is that it feels

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just as good to my finger as the raw fold too so

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i wouldn't recommend removing it here's why i need it this

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was another big partnership message for samsung so how they optimized the

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spotify app for either their normal

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interface so you go your search is over here your library is over here or

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fold interface so now if you're looking at your library or search or whatever

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else that's over here and then you've got now playing you've got your media

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controls right accessible to your left thumb now

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of course my biggest issue and the reason that i have not been able to

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daily drive exclusively a full device up until now

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is that the youtube app has not been fully featured on previous fold devices

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so now is the moment of truth where i find out if i can switch to this thing

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by opening up youtube of course consumption the consumption experience

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is excellent but what about the creators there's literally thousands

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of us okay create okay allow access come on can i

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come back record and go live is that it

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okay that is not a good sign

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even on the older fold too when i click create

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i am allowed to post a community post but when we contrast that with what

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happens on my trusty note 9

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i can upload a video create a short go live add to my story or create a post

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i don't know i don't know how to communicate this more clearly samsung

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google both of you you have to fix this especially with the rumored upcoming

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foldable pixel device i can't have such a dramatically different experience from

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one Android device to the next when i click the same bloody button in an app

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three different behaviors for the same

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app no no no no no no no no

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bad and before 100 of you start bleeding at me that i need to you know do it in

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candy bar mode or something like that let's try that all right

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no work i mean the truth is that i record most

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of my video clips on the iphone that i keep in my back pocket anyway

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but like not being able to access basic

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functionality like posting a community post from a device i don't understand

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how google considers this acceptable i don't understand why they don't just hurry up and validate this device i

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don't know why samsung considers it acceptable especially because they have to know

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that a lot of the most influential reviewers out there guys like mkbhd or

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mr who's the boss like if they have any hope whatsoever of convincing

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influencers like that to use this device i mean me too right

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it has to work for creators right

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but there's other good stuff let's fire up some games shall we

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now that is big screen mobile gaming

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wow that is a whopping 2268

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by 832. like what

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oh my god that is that is something else

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now i've never actually played cod mobile before so you'll have to forgive

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me i don't even know how to run this is pathetic they've really nailed down the actual

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fold in the display like obviously if i'm looking for it it's like the under

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screen camera right like i can find it but when you are just immersed in

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content like this you're not gonna notice that oh that's how you run okay cool

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it's so big like it's like clicking on giant

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blown up enemies man this thing makes even someone like me functional at this

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game nice

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okay are these bots or something because i'm pretty sure i'm not that good at

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this oh man

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that that is a different experience right

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there yeah it's pretty good

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one thing i was surprised to see was samsung encouraging users to dig into

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the Labs features under advanced features here so this allows you to have

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multi-window for all apps like say for example you wanted to

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uh shop on one side and then read reviews on another side let me just open

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up another another app here interesting okay i didn't get the

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shopping thing working immediately but i found another thing where you can enable

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apps that don't natively support it for this viewing experience

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and check this out plex so you've got your controls down

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here and your media playback there

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and it just like worked uh so it was this flex mode flex mode panel thing so

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you can just uh you know the phone app obviously

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supports it by default but not everything does

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this multi window for all apps thing i want to figure out how you

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how you multi-window things well i was figuring out the side-by-side

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view thing i found the feature to just run any app in a little window like this

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on top of whatever else you're doing so i've got the youtube app running like that you just go into your multitasking

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okay i guess it turns it into a bubble when you go into that that is super cool

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so here's how we get rid of it and then we go oh yeah okay it's dead well that's fine

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let's do it with this one so we just drag it here for pop-up view and then we

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can resize it a little something like that and we can just have our like

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browser right over here or wherever the heck else it is that we want it

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that's pretty neat i will figure out this side-by-side thing

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bloody hell it's the same as the old one so you swipe in from the side and then

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you can actually have pre-configured side-by-sides like say for example you

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wanted to watch a youtube video while you're browsing the web you could do that or you could just grab youtube and

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go um hello what did i click oh shoot i

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accidentally clicked that first one okay let's try that again so i've got my web

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browser open

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i don't know maybe here uh yeah you know what let's go up top

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there we go so we can go ahead and watch an LTT video up there while we're

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browsing ltteststore.com down here we've got mousepads in stock right now

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guys we've got these cool new retro GPU shirts Linus plushies underwear and

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stock look at all that good stuff we've got there

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freaking fantastic you can easily resize things if you're more into that sort of

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thing and i believe you just click here yep that's right you can switch them around

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if you want to focus on your video for a little bit and

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there we go and we can actually add

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additional items as well so let's go ahead and chuck i don't know let's do

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some messaging maybe on this side

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now obviously our keyboard is going to kind of complicate the experience a bit

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but hey at least the functionality is there even if 7.6 inches might be a little small

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for three apps another shopping or comparison related

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feature is the chrome browser natively supports opening in a side-by-side

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window now which is pretty cool so let's just

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there you go open a new window so you can you know read reviews of the product

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or whatever while you're still looking at the entire catalog pretty pretty sick

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that's a good question probably it will just keep doing what it's doing yeah

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just like that yeah it's

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pretty thoughtful man how gen z am i right now i can't

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even stop watching my youtube video here for long enough to take some pictures

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i don't even know what to take a picture of to be perfectly honest with you

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i can tell immediately that it's over saturating the blues a little bit but

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that kind of is what it is samsung wouldn't be the only mobile camera maker

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to commit that particular sin i mean this isn't the kind of phone that

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you buy for the best photography performance you'd go for something like

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an s-series or a note or something like that if you really wanted that but it's

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not like it won't be perfectly functional

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now we're gonna turn things around and i'm gonna record the cameraman instead

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of the cameraman recording me it's like a mexican standoff

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overall it's doing a really good job of dynamically compensating for

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me pointing at something brighter versus something not so bright

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i mean it'll be perfectly perfectly acceptable in spite of the fact that you

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got to remember in order to make this thing not ridiculously thick

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right each half of the phone has to be thinner than a conventional phone even a

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good phone like this is an iphone 12 pro

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oh yeah it like ai detected i was taking a picture of a vehicle that's cute

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and that puts us pretty much at conclusion time except i actually just noticed something else really cool you

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can actually see it it does struggle a little bit two chrome

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Windows you can see the frame rate drops a little bit when it does that animation

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but that is such a minor issue and this thing is going to be in my pocket the

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second samsung and google get together and make the creation experience as good

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as everything else about this phone is and if you want one

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it's going to be a little bit trickier because these puppies are going for

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17.99 us dollars starting at and in canada around 22.50

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so boy is it expensive but it's a phone experience that's unlike

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anything else on the market quite frankly this

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yeah it's just man it's awesome

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so snappy so snappy and this video is

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brought to you by a classic sponsor dbrand

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um this is a little awkward though did dbrand send a skin nope they just ask

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you to make one oh that's what this is for

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okay um i will make my own dbrand skin i mean

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they can do it it couldn't be that hard okay what do you think in terms of

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color palette andy this is very LTT themed was that intentional did you put

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this together for me i know i can count on you precision fit here they have the

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precision fit like robots and some or some

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who goes yeah i want to i want to sell stickers on the internet if you want

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this but maybe it fits a little bit better and your phone still folds go to

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skin for it you tape the screen that's fine i like the big screen anyway

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who needs the thinner little one you know this is why i wear pants with big

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pockets yeah

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what's up andy now son

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thanks for watching guys if you've enjoyed this video maybe check

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out my full review of the fold two which was having spent weeks with it instead

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of just a couple of hours