WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Samsung has been dominating the folding phone space, at least here in North America, 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.720 but Google's here to try to put a stop to that with their new Google Pixel Fold, 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:13.100 and I'm excited to take a look. I'm a big flip phone fan, but I haven't actually spent a lot of time 00:00:13.100 --> 00:00:17.560 with the folding kind of big to bigger style of phone, but before we get to the phone itself, 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:21.440 let's take a look and see what's in the box. Right away, front and center have 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.800 the Folding Screen Care Guide, and we should probably pay attention 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.400 because I've heard that people are already breaking their Pixel Fold screens, 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:32.460 but this isn't mine, so we're not gonna pay too much attention to that. 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:36.720 We have our booklet that tells you how to turn on the phone, 00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:44.040 and there's SimPaper, which is great, and we have a USB-C to C cable that is three feet long, 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:51.040 nothing special there, and an OTG cable, so that gives you a USB-C to USB-A 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:55.120 for transferring stuff over from your old phone, 00:00:55.120 --> 00:00:59.960 or plugging accessories, but you'll probably just use it once in case you don't have a USB-C phone. 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:03.880 Other than that, that's it, so we'll get rid of all this and take a look at the phone itself. 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:08.600 I'm excited because this phone is a little bit different from Samsung's Foldables in a way that it's really thin while shut, 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:11.880 and folds completely solid closed. 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:17.440 Man, right off the bat, this is a good looking phone. 00:01:17.440 --> 00:01:21.480 It is, like I said, completely flat when it's closed, 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:26.160 compared to the little bit of a water droplet you get with the Samsung Galaxy Folds, 00:01:26.160 --> 00:01:30.920 and it's a different aspect ratio, so it's a bit more stout, it's thicker, 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:34.440 versus the taller, more candy bar shape of the Fold 4. 00:01:34.440 --> 00:01:37.480 I just realized it looks like a DS while it's closed. 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:41.920 This looks like the top lid opens up. This would be the perfect DS emulator. 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.880 So on the right side of the phone, on one half, we have our volume rocker and power button 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:52.640 that's also your fingerprint scanner. On the top, we have our speaker grill, 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.200 and I'm assuming that's a cutout for a millimeter wave 5G, as well as a mic hole. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:03.120 On this side, we just have our hinge, which is the multi-alloy polished, cool-looking hinge. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:06.860 And on the bottom, we have a lot of holes. I'm not quite sure what each one is. It could all be microphones. 00:02:06.860 --> 00:02:10.160 We have one here, and then two more on this far side. 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:14.240 Then we have the SIM tray, a speaker, and USB-C for charging. 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:19.000 Let's take a look inside the SIM tray to see if we have two SIMs in the slot here, 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.880 or if it's going to be an eSIM, or maybe there's an SD card. It's not gonna be spoiler-like. 00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:26.520 It looks like we have one physical nano-SIM, and then nothing on the other side. 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:30.160 So you have to do eSIM. Maybe your country does it a bit easier than it is up here in Canada, 00:02:30.160 --> 00:02:33.880 but switching eSIMs is kind of a pain in the butt, classic Canada. 00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:38.200 Moving to the front of the phone, we have our 5.8-inch Full HD Plus OLED, 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:41.760 and it's 120 Hertz as well, which is great. This is such a great size 00:02:41.760 --> 00:02:45.080 that I'm assuming that it'll use this closed quite a bit. You're not gonna be kind of sacrificing 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.880 like you do on the flips for just having a little tiny screen for notifications. 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:53.280 And it's Gorilla Gloss Victus and supports HDR, up to 1500 nits peak brightness. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.280 So they're not skimping on this front cover screen. They know that you're gonna be using it quite a bit, 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:02.640 so they're giving you flagship-level specs on that outer screen, which is excellent. 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:04.200 On the inside, 00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:10.760 we have a 7.6-inch 1840p 120 Hertz OLED. 00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:15.840 So again, pretty darn impressive specs. And you can see there's a bit of a rim around it, 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:19.480 but I would say it looks pretty good. Obviously we don't have anything on it. 00:03:19.480 --> 00:03:23.840 But of course, this is not going to be standard, just like Gorilla Gloss screen on the inside. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:28.360 It is an ultra-thin glass protective layer with a screen protector on it. 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.720 So it has more of like a plasticky feel compared to the glass of the outside. 00:03:31.720 --> 00:03:34.960 So if you've never used one before, it does have a bit of a different feel of a screen, 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:39.200 but I don't think it's bad at all. It just feels a little bit gummy, and you can see my gamer fingers 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:42.480 leaving goo all over it. And for brightness, we've done testing on it, 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:46.400 but they claim up to 1450 nits peak HDR brightness as well. 00:03:46.440 --> 00:03:50.240 So again, nice, big, bright, vibrant display, 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:55.240 which I guess you should hope because this as a flagship device, I'm sure has a bit of a price tag to it. 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:59.920 As for a hand feel, it does feel a little wide. Like I can't reach the other side. 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:03.440 I've pretty moderate sized hands. If you do the kind of balance, 00:04:03.440 --> 00:04:06.680 you can start to reach all the corners. But if you're somebody who has smaller sized hands, 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:10.720 it's something to be aware of. But of course, when it's open, it's not quite as bad because you're going to be too handing it. 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:14.000 And thickness, it's only 0.5 inches thick while closed 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.640 and 0.2 inches thick when it's open. But yeah, it feels really thin when it's open 00:04:17.640 --> 00:04:21.200 and it's thinner than the average phone. 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:25.280 Maybe? Yeah. Phones are pretty thin these days. So I guess it's nothing to write home about. 00:04:25.280 --> 00:04:29.280 But let's give it away and see how much it weighs because it is kind of dense. 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:34.600 283 grams, so mildly heavy. That's probably around what I think the ROG Phone 7 weighs. 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:38.480 And it's a little bit heavier than the iPhone 14 Pro Max. So again, heavy, 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.640 but you're going to be probably too handing it quite a bit. So it's not too, too bad, 00:04:41.640 --> 00:04:44.920 especially when you consider it has over a 4800 milliamp hour battery in there. 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.200 Other than that, this kind of feels just like the standard flagship phone. 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:54.840 It's got this same kind of pixel stylings on the back with its pretty decently sized camera bump 00:04:54.840 --> 00:04:59.360 and it's got IPX8 water resistant. So it's not going to be dust resistant at all, 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.800 but at least it'll be able to submerge it and not have to worry about it. So let's get it turned on 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.920 and take a look at these big, beautiful screens. All right, booting up the phone 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.840 and it looks like stock Android because surprise, it is. 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:17.160 As for apps loaded on the phone, we have the things from Labs, but it is just the Google based apps, 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:21.060 which is great to see. Surprisingly, my ASUS did not come with it. 00:05:21.060 --> 00:05:25.640 That is something we downloaded. Checking out what we have for specs. 00:05:25.640 --> 00:05:32.160 It is like the other pixel devices we've had this year with the Tensor G2 chip that we have in the tablet 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.160 and Pixel 7 Pro and A. 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.640 So nothing too crazy there. As for RAM and storage, 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:42.120 we have the 256 gig model, but it does come in 512 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.720 and for RAM it is 12 gigs. I said in the nothing phone video, 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:49.560 I think 12 gigs of RAM is great for Android. It does seem like quite a bit, 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:52.960 but when you're launching this many apps and kind of keeping things running, especially with the demand 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:56.120 that a lot of apps have these days, you want to make sure that your phone's going to last 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.960 the years and years that the build quality is now kind of getting up to. 00:05:59.960 --> 00:06:03.160 And speaking of, Google's offering five years of security updates. 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:07.480 So that's really great to see that they're going to try to make these phones last for as long as possible because like I said, 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:12.400 if it's a great phone, it doesn't matter if you can't trust to have your info on it because there's a huge security hole in two years 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:15.440 and they're not going to update it anymore. Like phones are expensive. 00:06:15.440 --> 00:06:19.400 Keep them updated. It shouldn't be that hard, but let's try the fingerprint scanner 00:06:19.400 --> 00:06:23.960 and see if it's any good. Again, I feel like with flagships they're all pretty darn similar with how fast they are, 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:29.200 but with this new form factor, you never know, maybe this is going to be a completely crappy one. 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:32.200 Bam, pretty quick. It feels like most of it's coming down 00:06:32.200 --> 00:06:36.880 to the animation of the screen turning on and everything like that, but it is a pretty darn fast fingerprint scanner. 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:40.400 I guess my only complaint would be is that it's kind of high up with the phone being so wide, 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:43.680 you kind of have to hold it in a weird spot in your hand. So going all the way up there to get it 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.520 can be a little bit annoying, but I guess it also means, you're not going to get accidental impresses 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:50.680 and having the volume buttons closer is probably more useful, 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.320 especially when you have this phone screen open. You got a lot of info in here. 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:57.840 You're going to have some media playing and you're going to want to have access to this to turn things up and down. 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:02.640 And one thing that's really nice about even the settings menu is they're taking advantage of this wide screen. 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:06.600 So in here, opening up the screen, we have our settings kind of panel on the left 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.120 and then the details on the right, which is really awesome to see. Let's check another Google app 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.240 and see if they've optimized other things or if that is just a fluke that it happened to be for settings. 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.320 All right, yeah, you know, I thought I was going to trick them by going to notes. 00:07:17.320 --> 00:07:21.040 As you see on the left side here, we have our list of notes and on the right, the content of said notes, 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.240 which is great. And then if you rotate it, is it going to stay the same? 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.960 No, so once you get this different aspect ratio, it goes into a different mode, which is kind of neat as well. 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:31.560 So it gets just a full pager. So you just take notes while seeing more on screen 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:35.320 and it gives us a split keyboard for easier typing with two hands as well, 00:07:35.320 --> 00:07:38.440 which kind of seems weird to have a split keyboard, but once you get used to it, it's great. 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.560 I found the split keyboard to be really, really quick because you just kind of memorize 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:47.080 where the keys are on each side and then get to type in. One thing that is a little disappointing 00:07:47.080 --> 00:07:52.000 is that if you customize this outer screen with different widgets or move the apps around, 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.480 it actually translates immediately to the inside of the phone as well. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:00.600 So you can have a different layout from the outer screen and the inner screen, 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.520 which you can do on Samsung and other foldables. And I think that's what I prefer 00:08:04.520 --> 00:08:08.720 because you're going to want maybe a different layout on this outer screen to take advantage of this size 00:08:09.080 --> 00:08:13.080 or things you want to see it glance, but on the inside maybe have a full calendar 00:08:13.080 --> 00:08:17.200 or full size widgets for more of your apps because there's just more space for them. 00:08:17.200 --> 00:08:20.280 I'm hoping that's something they can change in an update, but as it is right now, 00:08:20.280 --> 00:08:25.160 I think that is a little bit of a miss and a point to Samsung who's been in the game a bit longer. 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:29.760 One thing that they do have here is the new dock though. So if you swipe up on this lower rim 00:08:29.760 --> 00:08:33.760 without going far enough to get into the app multitasking, you can see here your most recent apps 00:08:33.760 --> 00:08:37.840 or most used apps that you can click and drag them onto the page to do multitasking. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:42.480 So it's a super convenient way, kind of like they do on iPads to just move through your app seamlessly. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:47.640 So on the right, we have YouTube and the left, we have notes. I can swipe up and add mail to the left 00:08:47.640 --> 00:08:52.440 and change it all over. And then in your multitasking view, you have this pairing together now. 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.280 It will take a little bit of practice getting used to pulling up that dock here though. Actually to get that last shot, 00:08:56.280 --> 00:09:00.040 it took me a couple of tries to not go into this multitasking view because it's obviously a bit new, 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:03.960 but once you get used to it, it's pretty convenient. And then once we want just one full screen app, 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.080 you can just drag this all the way. And since we're here, 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:08.640 let's listen to some crab rave. 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:19.080 I gotta say, it sounds pretty good. It gets pretty loud. The sound's pretty balanced. 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:22.560 It definitely feels dynamic on the two sides. One thing I noticed when I turned it, 00:09:22.560 --> 00:09:26.320 I guess, portrait because it opens up to landscape is it sounds a bit better 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:29.920 because then your hands are here where the speakers are. So it bounces towards your face. 00:09:29.920 --> 00:09:34.220 I found that when it's in, it's kind of natural opening motion in that landscape view. 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:40.000 The sound's just kind of shooting towards the table that didn't sound quite as good, but still sounds really darn decent overall. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.880 And I think it's something that you could be happy with. As for the screen quality itself, looks great. 00:09:43.880 --> 00:09:47.600 One thing obviously is that there are huge bezels because of this aspect ratio, 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.780 but I mean, one thing you can do is just zoom in the image 00:09:50.780 --> 00:09:55.420 the whole way so that it fills the screen if you really want. But I guess don't do that. 00:09:55.420 --> 00:09:59.920 I don't recommend it. But as for brightness, got plenty bright. 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:04.000 Color looks great. It's an OLED and the sharpness is totally fine. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.760 So it's good to see that even though it's such a giant screen, they're not cheaping out and giving you something 00:10:07.760 --> 00:10:12.240 that's like 1080p or less because you'd probably start to notice that, you know, 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:16.120 seven inches. What if you watch it while closed? 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:21.280 Yeah, no surprise. 00:10:21.280 --> 00:10:26.000 The speakers still sound great and the outer screen looks great as well. This is more of a natural aspect ratio. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.400 So you're just seeing more on this little screen though. There still is a bit of black bars 00:10:29.400 --> 00:10:32.420 because it is so wide, doesn't look too bad though. 00:10:32.420 --> 00:10:36.400 All right, it's time to talk cameras because there are a lot. 00:10:36.400 --> 00:10:42.080 On the back, we have a 48 megapixel main shooter at 10.9 megapixel ultra wide 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.120 and a 10.9 megapixel telephoto lens. 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:51.760 You have quite a few options there but that's not all because there's also an inner camera. 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:56.480 So at the top of the bezel of the inner screen, there's another selfie camera here 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:00.480 which is an eight megapixel shooter. And on the cover screen, 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:05.120 we have a 9.5 megapixel shooter there as well. 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.560 Five cameras. All which can be used to take a picture 00:11:08.560 --> 00:11:12.360 of your beautiful face. So you've been looking to, you know, update your dating 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.440 profile, this is probably the phone for you because you've got some options. 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:20.520 You know, the nice thing with a folding phone is that if you want to take a selfie, you can actually use this outer screen 00:11:20.520 --> 00:11:25.080 and take a selfie with that. That's showing, right? Let's try it out. 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.360 One thing that would be nice is that if you're, once you've taken a photo and you want to switch back to the main screen, 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.680 it'd be great if you just, you know, tap or if there was a button or unlock you could do 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:34.960 to bring it back to this main screen, you do have to do on this outer screen. 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.380 And now let's try with the inner camera. 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:42.920 And finally, the outer screen camera. 00:11:42.920 --> 00:11:46.280 Wow, that cover screen photo is actually 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:49.880 way better than I thought it would be. It must have some sort of portrait mode on by default. 00:11:49.880 --> 00:11:53.720 As you can see, there's a little bit of artifacting right by my thumb here. 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:57.000 And obviously it's a pretty dramatic cutoff, but I mean, it worked. 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:00.400 I'm pretty darn impressed with this photo and I didn't have to do anything. 00:12:00.400 --> 00:12:04.240 It was just like a quick snap. Looking at the inner screen camera, I prefer the external screens camera, 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:08.440 but this one here, totally reasonable. And if that was the only selfie camera, 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:13.280 I would have no problem using that. Swapping to the outer screen, you know, 00:12:13.280 --> 00:12:18.000 of all the photos, this is probably my least favorite, but I think it's because it's not in a portrait mode. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.080 So it's just kind of trying to keep everything looking exposed and even, 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:27.880 which doesn't necessarily flatter the main subject of the photo. Comparing the main cameras taking a selfie 00:12:27.920 --> 00:12:35.640 versus the external screens selfie camera, I think I prefer the external screen selfie camera 00:12:35.760 --> 00:12:39.200 because it gets my skin tone a bit more accurately. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.760 The main camera is exposing me very well and keeping me very bright 00:12:42.760 --> 00:12:47.960 and the main subject of the photo, but I feel like I'm not that light skinned 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:51.800 compared to the external screens. Though I have to say the edge detection 00:12:51.800 --> 00:12:55.520 in the selfie mode is very good with the main camera. There are like a couple of spots in my hair 00:12:55.520 --> 00:12:59.760 that are out of focus compared to the rest, but it looks very sharp. 00:12:59.760 --> 00:13:03.400 Now let's try taking some selfie videos. I guess we'll just take three and then look back at them. 00:13:03.400 --> 00:13:07.060 Hello, this is me taking a selfie video. How do I sound? How do I look? 00:13:07.060 --> 00:13:12.440 It's in like a weird letter box. I feel very claustrophobic here, 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:17.200 but maybe it looks good and sounds good. I can tell by the preview, it doesn't look great. 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:21.160 This is a selfie video with the external screen. How does this one sound and how does this one look? 00:13:21.160 --> 00:13:24.820 Is it any different? Is it any better? Who knows? 00:13:24.820 --> 00:13:27.780 This is a selfie video with the external screen. 00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:33.740 It's a little weird to like line up because you wanna line up with the screen, but you can't. 00:13:33.740 --> 00:13:37.380 So let's see how it looks. I didn't expect there to be so much of a difference 00:13:37.380 --> 00:13:40.720 between the three, but they are pretty significantly different. 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.940 The internal one is definitely the worst. It looks the worst. And I don't know if it'll show up for you 00:13:43.940 --> 00:13:48.100 when you're watching the video on screen, but there's even ghosting, which is super odd. 00:13:48.100 --> 00:13:51.580 So internal camera, definitely the worst in every scenario, 00:13:51.580 --> 00:13:56.780 but the difference in the external screen camera and the main cameras is actually pretty interesting as well. 00:13:56.780 --> 00:14:01.740 The main cameras had a very clear microphone. Like it sounded very crisp versus the external screen 00:14:01.740 --> 00:14:06.500 had a pretty warm and full microphone. So it sounds different, but I think I prefer 00:14:06.500 --> 00:14:09.660 the main cameras mic, but I think I prefer the footage 00:14:09.660 --> 00:14:15.060 from the cover screens cameras because it's a more traditional kind of selfie video look. 00:14:15.060 --> 00:14:20.520 It's very easy to know where you're looking, where you're gonna look like versus the main cameras 00:14:20.520 --> 00:14:25.100 because you're holding it where you wanna look at yourself on the cover screen. 00:14:25.100 --> 00:14:28.880 You're kind of off center. And then I wasn't a huge fan. 00:14:28.880 --> 00:14:33.120 I'm kind of surprised that I prefer the more kind of close 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:39.400 and centered look of the external cover display, but I think no matter what, all of them are fine. 00:14:39.400 --> 00:14:43.760 Like none of them are blowing me away, but you have a lots of options. 00:14:43.760 --> 00:14:47.360 So Google's known for their cameras and I took this out to the symphony last night 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:50.620 to see how it performs in an indoor setting where it's pretty dark end. 00:14:50.620 --> 00:14:55.260 Of course, it performed very, very well. No matter if I was using the ultra wide, the telephoto 00:14:55.260 --> 00:14:58.980 or that 48 megapixel main shooter, I have to say the photos turned out 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:03.900 really evenly lit across the board. And the ultra wide didn't see too much distortion, 00:15:03.900 --> 00:15:07.420 though you can tell at the tops of the photos, especially with the dramatic ceiling 00:15:07.420 --> 00:15:11.000 that there is a little bit of a warp to it, but nothing too bad. 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:14.540 And I can only tell because, you know, I can directly see back to back photos 00:15:14.540 --> 00:15:19.100 that were taken with and without the ultra wide. One thing that wasn't as great was the video performance 00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:24.780 in the theater. Some of the dark spots are quite noisy, but that'll happen pretty much with any phone. 00:15:24.780 --> 00:15:29.220 So I don't really have any major complaints with that. This one of the chandeliers using the 5X optical zoom, 00:15:29.220 --> 00:15:32.620 so you're not gonna be losing quality like you would with the 20X super zoom, 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:36.340 which, you know, maybe is useful for some people, but I don't know when I need to get that close 00:15:36.340 --> 00:15:40.720 to a subject from far distances, because it's a little weird. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:46.540 But I have to say, again, it does look very good and the contrast between the bright lit lights 00:15:46.540 --> 00:15:51.780 and the dark background, though some of the parts of the background are a little lost or, you know, quite noisy. 00:15:51.780 --> 00:15:55.900 It's not super noticeable. Like I would post this on Instagram and I don't think anyone would really notice 00:15:55.900 --> 00:15:59.340 or call me out and be like, this photo looks a little weird in the dark spots. 00:15:59.340 --> 00:16:02.780 I also went outside and took some photos into daylight to make things a little bit easier for the camera 00:16:02.780 --> 00:16:06.740 and the photos are pretty decent. I think the clarity looks really good 00:16:06.740 --> 00:16:12.260 and the lighting's pretty even, though the plants definitely weren't this brown. 00:16:12.260 --> 00:16:15.540 They're pretty colorful to the eye in person, 00:16:15.540 --> 00:16:23.220 yet everything is just kind of yellow, orange and brown, which is fine. 00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:26.380 Again, with the clarity, it makes it kind of look more realistic, I guess, 00:16:26.380 --> 00:16:29.940 but yeah, the colors are completely missing and I'm not really sure what caused that. 00:16:29.940 --> 00:16:33.600 Heading over to the motorcycle that we always take a picture of. It looks pretty good. 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.920 The sharpness and clarity though, there is a bit of warmth. This motorcycle is black, 00:16:37.920 --> 00:16:42.380 but here it's pretty warm black. Even in the fire hydrant in the back, 00:16:42.380 --> 00:16:46.220 it's a pretty red, red in person, but in here it's pretty faded 00:16:46.220 --> 00:16:50.500 and again, the flowers in the background are very brown. 00:16:50.500 --> 00:16:54.980 I don't actually use a pixel, so I don't know if that's standard. I think it's a good looking photo, 00:16:54.980 --> 00:17:01.460 but kind of like my complaints with a nothing phone, I'd rather have a more flat or realistic photo 00:17:01.460 --> 00:17:04.740 and apply a faded filter or up the warmth 00:17:04.740 --> 00:17:09.540 than just have it kind of be warm and have to edit it back to what it actually looked like in person. 00:17:09.540 --> 00:17:12.820 As for the ultra wide, it looks good. Again, like I mentioned in the indoor photos, 00:17:12.820 --> 00:17:16.780 you can see a little bit of distortion on the sides, but I think overall, getting everything in the shot 00:17:16.780 --> 00:17:20.900 is gonna be way more worth it than that little bit of distortion. I know in some budget phones, 00:17:20.900 --> 00:17:24.500 the distortion can look pretty bad, but here it doesn't look too crazy. 00:17:24.500 --> 00:17:29.260 After taking some pictures outside, I went and took a video of Alex in the shop to see how it forms, you know, 00:17:29.260 --> 00:17:32.620 taking a video of people, moving objects and some pretty flat lighting 00:17:32.620 --> 00:17:35.940 and I'm not super impressed. 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:40.180 So it starts on the ultra wide camera and things are pretty darn noisy, 00:17:40.180 --> 00:17:44.340 even though again, the lighting is pretty even and fairly darn bright, 00:17:44.340 --> 00:17:48.780 but when it switches to the main camera, it improves a little bit, 00:17:48.780 --> 00:17:52.740 but it's still not excellent. It would be great to see some of that noise cleaned up 00:17:52.740 --> 00:17:57.100 as there isn't really an excuse for it to be so noisy. I took a photo shooting towards the sun 00:17:57.100 --> 00:18:00.580 to see if there's any haloing or lens flare effects 00:18:00.580 --> 00:18:03.980 and there is a little bit you can see in the shadow as there's a bit of a rainbow 00:18:03.980 --> 00:18:07.420 from the sun hitting the lens, but overall, I think it performs pretty strongly 00:18:07.420 --> 00:18:10.420 and lets things be contrasted while not blowing up the sky. 00:18:10.420 --> 00:18:14.420 After this, I took a video of Andy to test the microphones and shake. 00:18:14.420 --> 00:18:17.820 All right, we're outside, taking a video of Andy, 00:18:17.820 --> 00:18:21.820 trying to find parking. We can hear the train in the background. It's a little windy. 00:18:21.820 --> 00:18:25.020 What do we have? Does it sound good? 00:18:25.020 --> 00:18:28.900 There's only one way to find out. Let's give it a listen. I gotta say the stabilization though 00:18:28.900 --> 00:18:32.060 is really good on this. Like I'm jiggling the camera like a lot 00:18:33.100 --> 00:18:36.180 and it is, it is holding steady, 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:41.140 like really, really steady. I'm really impressed. The mic quality is totally decent. 00:18:41.140 --> 00:18:44.740 Again, it might be the speakers on the phone, so you'll hear what it actually sounded like, 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:48.780 but I'm pretty impressed. There were still some sections with noise though, 00:18:48.780 --> 00:18:52.940 which is odd and I couldn't find any setting that I might have enabled that would be causing it, 00:18:52.940 --> 00:18:57.580 but again, something to be aware of. Though with the film grain and the bezels 00:18:57.580 --> 00:19:00.580 from this giant screen, seems kind of cinematic. 00:19:00.580 --> 00:19:05.180 So at least you got that going for you. Let's now talk about lab's results. 00:19:05.180 --> 00:19:09.660 Jumping right into games, the Pixel Fold performs okay, both when the screen is open and closed, 00:19:09.660 --> 00:19:15.460 but something to note is that when you're using that big internal screen, the performance does drop pretty significantly. 00:19:15.460 --> 00:19:20.020 Looking at Dolphin Emulator playing Mario Kart Wii, we can see the external screen doesn't perform great, 00:19:20.020 --> 00:19:23.180 but even then it performs leagues better than the internal screen, 00:19:23.180 --> 00:19:26.180 with the external getting a median of 47 FPS 00:19:26.180 --> 00:19:29.820 and the internal only getting 29 FPS. Neither of those are very compelling though, 00:19:29.820 --> 00:19:33.780 when even the 7a gets a median of 60 and every other flagship doesn't really struggle 00:19:33.780 --> 00:19:37.380 with the frame rates in any game we tested. The only one to really bounce back 00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:40.380 would be Call of Duty Mobile, which again, on the external screen, 00:19:40.380 --> 00:19:44.660 performs pretty darn decently with 93 FPS, but when comparing to the internal screen, 00:19:44.660 --> 00:19:47.900 it only got 79 FPS. So why is it performing so much worse 00:19:47.900 --> 00:19:53.260 even compared to the other Pixel devices? Well, that's when it comes down to thermals. 00:19:53.260 --> 00:19:58.940 This thing is getting hot, and especially with how thin it is, it's having trouble getting rid of all that excess heat 00:19:58.940 --> 00:20:02.860 when your hands are holding onto it, it's playing games, it's got the volume coming out, 00:20:02.860 --> 00:20:05.900 and because of that, it's starting to throttle performance. 00:20:05.900 --> 00:20:10.500 Not super great to see, and it's definitely the sacrifice of having this thin body. 00:20:10.500 --> 00:20:13.820 Luckily though, the battery performance is pretty solid. In the battery longevity test, 00:20:13.820 --> 00:20:17.380 we use the external screen, because if you wanna keep your battery going, you're gonna be using that external screen. 00:20:17.380 --> 00:20:21.980 We are able to get 20 hours of video playback, which is great in comparison to some of the best phones 00:20:21.980 --> 00:20:25.380 we've seen in this list so far. And for the stress test, we use the internal screen 00:20:25.380 --> 00:20:29.220 and hit the CPU and GPU hard, and we're still able to get four and a half hours, 00:20:29.220 --> 00:20:33.020 which is again, one of the top performers that we've seen so far. 00:20:33.020 --> 00:20:36.580 Great job. As for charge times, everything seems pretty standard 00:20:36.580 --> 00:20:41.380 with a zero to 100% charge with a 65 watt charger taking an hour and 36 minutes, 00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:44.920 and in an hour, it was able to get 77%. So it might have the quickest top ups, 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.820 but it's not too bad. And finally, for brightness, the internal and external screen 00:20:48.820 --> 00:20:52.980 were both able to get 450 nits, which is a pretty middle of the pack result that we've seen compared to other flagships, 00:20:52.980 --> 00:20:56.340 but not too bad. Now, Samsung for some reason 00:20:56.340 --> 00:20:59.860 has not sent us their full devices before, so I don't actually have one to compare, 00:20:59.860 --> 00:21:04.700 but Elijah's been using a Fold 4 for about a year now, 00:21:04.700 --> 00:21:08.140 and one of my main concerns about folding phones 00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:11.860 kind of comes true with this one here. So it's been used for about a year. You can see all the gamer goo 00:21:11.860 --> 00:21:18.660 that's been building up over that time, but the internal screen looks awful. 00:21:19.860 --> 00:21:23.800 Look at that. That screen protector is coming off. It's fighting for its life. 00:21:23.800 --> 00:21:26.220 In fact, it's fighting for its life so much. Listen to this. 00:21:30.020 --> 00:21:34.140 It's not supposed to make that sound, and it's really not supposed to look like this. 00:21:34.180 --> 00:21:37.180 On top of that, it has a permanent kind of V-shape. 00:21:37.180 --> 00:21:40.540 So even with me kind of trying to push it flat, it does what I'm holding it, 00:21:40.540 --> 00:21:45.700 but once I let go, it bounces back a bit, but that's also a valid complaint for the Pixel. 00:21:45.700 --> 00:21:49.200 When you open it up, it also kind of opens to a bow 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:54.060 unless you force it flat. But if you've watched Jerry Rigg Everything's video, 00:21:54.060 --> 00:21:57.340 you gotta be really careful with that hinge. It will just break back. 00:21:57.340 --> 00:22:01.240 So those Samsung's been doing this for four years. It still can't get it perfect. 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:05.240 Will Google's first try be perfect? No, thank you. 00:22:08.280 --> 00:22:13.640 And that's another kind of complaint I have. And what I've seen a lot of reviewers have is that 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:19.220 with this being so new for Google, there aren't really any killer folding features. 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:23.520 I think the Play Store really needs a great for fold section that has apps 00:22:23.520 --> 00:22:28.120 that are already optimized for two panel displays because there just aren't any. 00:22:28.120 --> 00:22:32.640 Like, believe it or not, a lot of people use Instagram. And again, I know a lot of people brought this up, 00:22:33.560 --> 00:22:37.400 but this does not look good. Like, why is this in the center? 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:42.520 Yeah, you can move it to the side, but this should be full screen. And it is on the Samsung Galaxy Fold 4. 00:22:42.520 --> 00:22:47.760 If it's gonna look like this, at least give me the ability to scroll with this empty space or do something more useful. 00:22:47.760 --> 00:22:53.100 On top of that, if you're not someone who uses these large form factor folding phones like myself, 00:22:53.100 --> 00:22:56.160 it takes a while to get used to because it's still very thick 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.160 and was a huge presence in my pocket that took a bit to get used to, 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:03.480 especially when I was sitting for so long in an uncomfortable chair already at the symphony. 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:06.600 This is actually starting to cause some discomfort being in my pocket for so long. 00:23:06.600 --> 00:23:10.920 But that could just be me coming from the Zenfone 10 and before that, you know, the smaller flip style phones. 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:15.360 So your mileage may vary. Clearly it's a bit of a mixed bag for me. 00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:18.740 I love folding phones and I truly believe that they're for the future. 00:23:18.740 --> 00:23:23.320 And even though I prefer the flip style, I do see a place for these folding phones. 00:23:23.320 --> 00:23:28.040 And as somebody who does a lot of admin stuff, you know, running this channel takes quite a bit 00:23:28.040 --> 00:23:34.120 and having a larger screen would be great. At 1800 US dollars, it's a pretty high entry point, 00:23:34.120 --> 00:23:41.040 though it is the same price as the Fold 4 and probably the Fold 5 when it releases sometime soon. 00:23:41.040 --> 00:23:45.680 If you are not somebody who knows what they're going to do with this form factor, 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.980 I don't think it's something that you should just kind of jump into as a, hey, why not? 00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:53.080 The flip styles are a lot easier to kind of just go, well, why not? 00:23:53.080 --> 00:23:56.680 Because at the end of the day, when you have it open, it's just your current phone. 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:01.520 This one here, you're adding another phone to the back and with that, you're getting double the screen space, 00:24:01.520 --> 00:24:06.080 but do you need that? You can't see it all when you're watching videos 00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:09.880 and some of your games might not work and the apps you use might just be the regular size anyway. 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:14.160 So make sure you do a lot of research and let us know down below. Are you the person that this phone is for? 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:18.440 Are you sold on the Pixel Fold? This is only available in America, so if you're outside of the States, 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.000 is this something that you want to come to your country? For me, it's pretty here to miss.