WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.440 The new Samsung Flip 7 is here, 00:00:03.440 --> 00:00:05.860 but honestly, I'm not that impressed. 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:11.200 Right off the bat, we have a new design. It's a little thinner, a little bigger, 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:14.940 but the real claim to fame is the infinity window on the front. 00:00:14.940 --> 00:00:18.040 That's right, they got rid of the thick bezels 00:00:18.040 --> 00:00:22.080 of the Flip 6. This is actually the Flip 7 FE, but we'll talk about that later. 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:25.960 And copy the Motorola Razors all the way around the screen front cover. 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.420 And it looks way better than the old ones. I really like the way it cuts around the cameras here 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:34.260 to give you as much real estate as possible. But unfortunately, they didn't give you the ability 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:37.500 to use whatever app you want on the front screen. You're still limited to the widgets 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:40.940 that they kind of let you have, but it's better than nothing, 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:44.900 and it truly does look quite good. Coming from the 2025 Motorola Razor 00:00:44.900 --> 00:00:48.280 that I've been daily driving for a little bit now, I really like the flat sides. 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:51.780 It really feels sturdy in your hands, and like you have a good hold of it. 00:00:51.780 --> 00:00:57.420 But one thing I notice is that, coming from the new Fold 7, it's pretty thick. 00:00:57.460 --> 00:01:03.820 It's thicker than it is folded. Even unfolded, it is still almost as thick as the Fold 7. 00:01:03.820 --> 00:01:06.860 But again, I don't really mind as it feels substantial enough in your hand 00:01:06.860 --> 00:01:10.300 that you know you have a hold of it when you're going to take your camcorder footage. 00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:13.540 For some reason, Samsung thinks everybody's doing. 00:01:13.540 --> 00:01:19.020 Please take videos like this, they're begging you. Speaking of, the hinge does feel quite good. 00:01:19.020 --> 00:01:23.300 It's apparently 30% smaller than the Flip 6, but I don't know, looks the same to me. 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:28.220 The crease is almost invisible though. I've never been particularly sensitive to the crease, 00:01:28.220 --> 00:01:31.300 but as always, I do think it looks 00:01:31.300 --> 00:01:37.660 almost completely flat, almost. On the inside, we have a 6.9 inch Full HD Plus display, 00:01:37.660 --> 00:01:43.180 so it's gonna look pretty good. And Full HD Plus means it won't go through as much battery. 00:01:43.180 --> 00:01:48.180 And on the front screen, it is 4.1 inches at 948 by 10 something. 00:01:49.100 --> 00:01:53.180 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, 00:01:53.180 --> 00:01:58.580 but it's nice to have and probably fairly durable. Inside the Flip 7 is a 4,300 milliamp hour battery 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:03.820 in the Exynos 2500 SoC. And I think that means it'll do okay with battery. 00:02:03.820 --> 00:02:07.260 I'm honestly a little confused why they chose to do Exynos instead of Snapdragon. 00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:10.860 Even in the announcement, they just said the latest three nanometer technology 00:02:10.860 --> 00:02:14.820 and didn't want to say what SoC it was, which probably isn't a great sign, 00:02:14.820 --> 00:02:18.380 especially when again, competition is using the latest Snapdragon to make sure 00:02:18.380 --> 00:02:22.160 you're getting the most performance. It seems like a bit of a swing and a miss, 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:26.520 but I'm not sure we're only using this on a show floor, so let us know if we should follow up 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.600 with some performance results. What I can show you are some photos. 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:33.240 This has a 50 megapixel main camera and a 12 megapixel ultra wide. 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:37.320 No telephoto here, maybe you care, maybe you don't. I actually prefer to have an ultra wide, 00:02:37.320 --> 00:02:41.920 but it would be great to have all three, but I guess it would look weird on the cover screen. 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:44.920 I don't know, somebody Photoshop that up and send it to me. 00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:48.120 One interesting thing is that it doesn't look very good in the preview, 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:52.920 but when you take the photo, maybe it's just the processing or whatever, it looks way better. 00:02:52.920 --> 00:02:57.680 It's still not something I would say compares to a normal flagship, whether it's even the S25 or the Ultra 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:01.440 or now the Fold 7, but it looks decent enough. 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:05.480 And again, the ultra wide looks totally serviceable. 00:03:07.820 --> 00:03:11.360 Oh, that's right, camcorder mode. How do I make it take a photo? 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:14.640 I guess I have to move my thumb here. 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:17.760 Wow, it's the same photo. There is a selfie cam too, 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:21.720 but they really want you to again use the cover cameras. 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:25.160 I don't like doing that. I don't take a ton of selfies though. 00:03:25.160 --> 00:03:28.880 Maybe I should. Also, believe it or not, this phone has AI. 00:03:28.880 --> 00:03:35.080 Thank goodness. A big selling point for them was that you can use Google Gemini on the cover screen. 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:39.600 I don't know why you couldn't do that on the Flip 6, but you can here. 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:43.520 Great. A nice thing is that they do have integration with the Samsung OS, 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.840 so you can do things like call and send text messages, which I can't do on my Razer. 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.440 Again, let me know if I'm doing something wrong, but I find it so frustrating. 00:03:51.440 --> 00:03:54.520 Let me send a text. Let me change the song. God. 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.680 Subscribe to ShortCircuit, please. Please, God. 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:03.840 Looking at the internal screen looks amazing. It's a Samsung display. 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.880 They always look good. Truly, always impressed. 00:04:06.880 --> 00:04:10.640 It gets really bright. The colors look amazing. Again, the crease is like not noticeable, 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:15.040 almost at all unless you're very sensitive to it. I could watch Oppenheimer on this, 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:18.520 but if I want to watch Oppenheimer, this has to have good speakers. Let's check it out. 00:04:23.520 --> 00:04:27.400 Honestly, it sounds pretty good. The earpiece amplified speaker 00:04:27.400 --> 00:04:31.880 does get a little crackly at 100% volume, but barely noticeable unless I put my ear to it. 00:04:31.880 --> 00:04:35.360 And the way you hold it, I didn't really feel like it affected listening all that much, 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:40.120 because again, the size of the phone means you kind of cup it, which makes the volume come towards your ears. 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:43.520 I'm impressed. And that's pretty much it for the Flip 7. There is a Flip 7 FE, 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:47.080 which is pretty much the same thing, just in the older design 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:52.160 with the big, thick bezels. And as the Exynos 2400 instead of 2500, 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:56.400 which they say does affect some things like the now briefing AI thing that it can do. 00:04:56.400 --> 00:04:59.440 But maybe if you don't care about the infinity window, this would be the way to go, 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:04.240 because this one's gonna be launching at $900. And this one, the Flip 7 at $1,100, 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.360 which is a pretty big asking point. And as part of the reason I'm a little unimpressed, 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:13.160 there's a lot of competition in the market now. Like I said, I've been daily driving 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:18.040 the Razer Ultra 2025, and the specs are much better, 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.360 almost in every single way. And I like the rounded design 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.200 and the fact that I can use almost any app I want on the front display. 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:28.200 After seeing the Fold 7 get so much of an upgrade 00:05:28.200 --> 00:05:31.680 with how thin it is, and it's actually really good camera, 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:35.160 I'm starting to worry that we're maybe hitting the peak of what we can do on a Flip phone. 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.760 If he can only get so thin, what else is there to do? 00:05:38.760 --> 00:05:42.040 Maybe go back to being thicker and adds more features. 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:46.640 I'm tired of having a lesser phone because I want it to flip instead of fold. 00:05:46.640 --> 00:05:49.760 But what do you think? Are you impressed? Maybe you have an old Flip 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:53.760 and you're already getting a new one, or you wanna try camcorder mode so bad, 00:05:53.760 --> 00:05:55.560 please use camcorder mode.