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The new Samsung Flip 7 is here,

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but honestly, I'm not that impressed.

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Right off the bat, we have a new design. It's a little thinner, a little bigger,

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but the real claim to fame is the infinity window on the front.

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That's right, they got rid of the thick bezels

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of the Flip 6. This is actually the Flip 7 FE, but we'll talk about that later.

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And copy the Motorola Razors all the way around the screen front cover.

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And it looks way better than the old ones. I really like the way it cuts around the cameras here

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to give you as much real estate as possible. But unfortunately, they didn't give you the ability

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to use whatever app you want on the front screen. You're still limited to the widgets

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that they kind of let you have, but it's better than nothing,

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and it truly does look quite good. Coming from the 2025 Motorola Razor

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that I've been daily driving for a little bit now, I really like the flat sides.

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It really feels sturdy in your hands, and like you have a good hold of it.

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But one thing I notice is that, coming from the new Fold 7, it's pretty thick.

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It's thicker than it is folded. Even unfolded, it is still almost as thick as the Fold 7.

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But again, I don't really mind as it feels substantial enough in your hand

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that you know you have a hold of it when you're going to take your camcorder footage.

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For some reason, Samsung thinks everybody's doing.

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Please take videos like this, they're begging you. Speaking of, the hinge does feel quite good.

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It's apparently 30% smaller than the Flip 6, but I don't know, looks the same to me.

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The crease is almost invisible though. I've never been particularly sensitive to the crease,

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but as always, I do think it looks

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almost completely flat, almost. On the inside, we have a 6.9 inch Full HD Plus display,

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so it's gonna look pretty good. And Full HD Plus means it won't go through as much battery.

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And on the front screen, it is 4.1 inches at 948 by 10 something.

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I don't know, it's a front screen, and again, you can't do a whole lot on it, so you probably won't notice,

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but it's nice to have and probably fairly durable. Inside the Flip 7 is a 4,300 milliamp hour battery

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in the Exynos 2500 SoC. And I think that means it'll do okay with battery.

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I'm honestly a little confused why they chose to do Exynos instead of Snapdragon.

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Even in the announcement, they just said the latest three nanometer technology

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and didn't want to say what SoC it was, which probably isn't a great sign,

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especially when again, competition is using the latest Snapdragon to make sure

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you're getting the most performance. It seems like a bit of a swing and a miss,

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but I'm not sure we're only using this on a show floor, so let us know if we should follow up

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with some performance results. What I can show you are some photos.

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This has a 50 megapixel main camera and a 12 megapixel ultra wide.

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No telephoto here, maybe you care, maybe you don't. I actually prefer to have an ultra wide,

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but it would be great to have all three, but I guess it would look weird on the cover screen.

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I don't know, somebody Photoshop that up and send it to me.

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One interesting thing is that it doesn't look very good in the preview,

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but when you take the photo, maybe it's just the processing or whatever, it looks way better.

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It's still not something I would say compares to a normal flagship, whether it's even the S25 or the Ultra

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or now the Fold 7, but it looks decent enough.

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And again, the ultra wide looks totally serviceable.

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Oh, that's right, camcorder mode. How do I make it take a photo?

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I guess I have to move my thumb here.

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Wow, it's the same photo. There is a selfie cam too,

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but they really want you to again use the cover cameras.

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I don't like doing that. I don't take a ton of selfies though.

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Maybe I should. Also, believe it or not, this phone has AI.

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Thank goodness. A big selling point for them was that you can use Google Gemini on the cover screen.

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I don't know why you couldn't do that on the Flip 6, but you can here.

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Great. A nice thing is that they do have integration with the Samsung OS,

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so you can do things like call and send text messages, which I can't do on my Razer.

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Again, let me know if I'm doing something wrong, but I find it so frustrating.

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Let me send a text. Let me change the song. God.

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Subscribe to ShortCircuit, please. Please, God.

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Looking at the internal screen looks amazing. It's a Samsung display.

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They always look good. Truly, always impressed.

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It gets really bright. The colors look amazing. Again, the crease is like not noticeable,

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almost at all unless you're very sensitive to it. I could watch Oppenheimer on this,

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but if I want to watch Oppenheimer, this has to have good speakers. Let's check it out.

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Honestly, it sounds pretty good. The earpiece amplified speaker

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does get a little crackly at 100% volume, but barely noticeable unless I put my ear to it.

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And the way you hold it, I didn't really feel like it affected listening all that much,

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because again, the size of the phone means you kind of cup it, which makes the volume come towards your ears.

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I'm impressed. And that's pretty much it for the Flip 7. There is a Flip 7 FE,

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which is pretty much the same thing, just in the older design

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with the big, thick bezels. And as the Exynos 2400 instead of 2500,

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which they say does affect some things like the now briefing AI thing that it can do.

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But maybe if you don't care about the infinity window, this would be the way to go,

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because this one's gonna be launching at $900. And this one, the Flip 7 at $1,100,

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which is a pretty big asking point. And as part of the reason I'm a little unimpressed,

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there's a lot of competition in the market now. Like I said, I've been daily driving

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the Razer Ultra 2025, and the specs are much better,

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almost in every single way. And I like the rounded design

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and the fact that I can use almost any app I want on the front display.

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After seeing the Fold 7 get so much of an upgrade

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with how thin it is, and it's actually really good camera,

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I'm starting to worry that we're maybe hitting the peak of what we can do on a Flip phone.

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If he can only get so thin, what else is there to do?

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Maybe go back to being thicker and adds more features.

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I'm tired of having a lesser phone because I want it to flip instead of fold.

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But what do you think? Are you impressed? Maybe you have an old Flip

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and you're already getting a new one, or you wanna try camcorder mode so bad,

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please use camcorder mode.