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i've been patiently waiting for samsung to send over

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a galaxy z fold two and i'm still waiting for samsung to send a galaxy z

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full two but that's okay cause our bros over at d brand sent one over and i am extremely

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excited to check this thing out i was a big fan of the original fold with my

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main three complaints being one that the hinge did not hold up for

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me so i opened mine up and i don't know if you can tell very easily but it's really

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noticeable in the hand that's not quite 180 degrees open you

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gotta i have to kind of like overcrank it in order to get it flat

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every time i open the device number two the youtube stories feature in the

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youtube app that rolls to this phone doesn't work for whatever reason i can't

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upload stories which as a youtuber is sort of a problem for me and number

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three the maximum screen brightness is just

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not enough dbrand sent this which should be fairly

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obv should be fairly obvious from the skin

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on the back of the phone you know dbrand you guys are gonna have

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trouble as phones become more and more screened i couldn't help noticing you guys have

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less and less skin to apply but hey at least if your business is gonna

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disappear at least you guys are having fun over there putting uh putting them meme faces on

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them phones you can check them out dbrand.com i had actually forgotten how much of a

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problem that was on the original fold and it doesn't entirely fix it because

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most of what they've added is in the chin and the forehead here but

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the bezels are smaller even if this is kind of hidden yeah you can see they're

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still pretty sizable but they're quite a bit smaller which means that you're not feeling

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quite as cramped at least you're able to have you know four home screen icons

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abreast here that's a pretty big difference maker

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that hinge

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that is next generation oh

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i am extremely pleased with that now in defense of the original fold

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mine's a little worn out this has been fairly heavily used but

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you see that that kind of that crack and

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how wobbly that is you see that here's the z

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fold too quite stiff

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it actually feels like it like a tablet in the hand

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that is a night and day difference

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the other immediately noticeable external difference is that

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gone is the separate lock and fingerprint sensor buttons so just like

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on one of the old xperia's from back in the day they've combined the fingerprint sensor

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and the lock button let's have a look at what the performance is like so

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oh samsung as much as i love the idea

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of underscreen fingerprint sensors your ultrasonic ones just

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are not as fast as your less ultrasonic ones

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that's really responsive feels good

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feels really good 120 hertz display baby

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love that OLED sorry sorry uh after the setup process when you migrate all your

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text messages and contacts and apps and all that stuff it gives you a

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little summary that says hey here's some things we couldn't do you need to go manually back up your

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whatsapp and transfer that over i thought that was really cool not because like i would forget to do that but if it

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was my in-laws it'd be nice to have like a little summary like that of all the

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maintenance tasks you still need to complete i want to compare the maximum

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screen brightness here because daytime readability was a significant

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problem for me that is quite a lot brighter

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okay well this is good uh wait that one

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has a blue light filter on there you go well there's your problem there but in terms of brightness

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that is definitely brighter and one of the things that bothered me about the old fold only sometimes though was that

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if you looked at it directly you couldn't see the crease but if you

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went off axis you see that you can really see it

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so i want to compare that effect on the new one oh it's still there

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it's still there turns out you can't put a big crease down the middle of your

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display and not be able to see it you see that it is better it's

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definitely better but it's also definitely still there the

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good news is that that is an absolute worst case

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scenario for it and in something like video content you are much much less

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likely to notice it to let people with legal copies of

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Windows 7 or 8 upgrade to Windows 10 for free many users have reported the free

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upgrade don't pay for a key the os will still

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work just fine man this is a lot of screen real estate so speakers i would describe

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as okay i mean really i don't know if

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there's much they can do about that this is an extremely slim device and at least

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they're providing stereo speakers which i love the configuration because you can

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hold it on the bottom like this and the speakers are here and here so they're never going to be

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obstructed you're basically watching a video at the same size as your old

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iphone for you've got your video description or if

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the app was better optimized you know maybe your comments or something down here

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now that's curious my old fold doesn't actually have that same tablety layout

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when i'm not in full screen so that's pretty cool what i had really

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wanted to show you guys though was the gigantic notch i just wish samsung had done away with

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it entirely but this is way better and way less

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distracting than this let's see if i'm able to upload a story

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see look at that they are determined for me

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to not daily drive this device as far as i can tell no posts

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no stories all right most of what andy's telling me he wants to know about this

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is more like review territory you know battery life

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can you daily drive the outside screen i personally found that with my

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small hands small fingers i was able to do it on the old one so i'm actually

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expecting this to be a way better experience but there is

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something that i want to touch on here on ShortCircuit before we do the LTT

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video okay let's talk about the screen protector after this message from our

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i didn't realize how much wider it was

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like it felt it felt really big in my hands and heavy and stuff but

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it is way wider than the original fold so anyway with the original fold there

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was a big hubbub around the supposed pre-installed screen protector

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that as it turned out was actually just part of the screen people removed them

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it caused a big big problem but with the z

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fold 2 there actually is an included screen protector and

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i gotta say just from the very short amount of time that i've spent with it

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so far i really don't like it now samsung

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apparently has a procedure well they will replace it for you once

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but i think the recommendation is to keep it on the problem is that

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the feel of the screen as i'm swiping is

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really sticky and initially i thought well maybe it's just because my fingers

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are greasy but it's there's a lot of resistance there like

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that's the one thing going from gen 1 to gen 2 that is

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immediately noticeably better about the original is that it doesn't have that

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screen protector on it so it seems both the front one and the inside one

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are removable i just the problem though is that guys this is not gorilla glass

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on the inside so you can't just you know scratch your keys on it and

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hope for the best like this thing will freaking scratch if you remove that

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screen protector it feels not very good though to be

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honest with you especially for like what is this two thousand dollars or something u.s for this thing

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like eighteen hundred dollars something like that you know what i think the

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optimal selfie camera configuration would be for this thing

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it's actually no selfie camera

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like why don't you just hold it like this and just

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see yourself in the preview up here and just take your picture with your rear

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shooter like the more you can use your best lens on the device

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the better in my opinion although if they do have to have a selfie camera

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here i'm relatively okay with that i just wish that there wasn't one ah see

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yeah chrome chrome hides it but let's find uh let's find something that doesn't hide yeah

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yuck man it is such a different experience

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i don't even have to like click a picture just like

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it's awesome yeah the camera bumps higher than last time andy but

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uh i don't know i mean maybe the rear camera is also better than last time i

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haven't obviously spent any time with it yet but

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so far on paper i'm really excited to check this thing

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out though it addresses my biggest complaints about the original galaxy

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fold and it even just it just feels better like listen listen

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to the sound whereas listen to this one

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okay that doesn't sound much better never mind well it felt better

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i'm gonna give it a shot though i'm gonna daily drive this at least two weeks before i write

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my review and then i'll either be switching to it finally

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finally something that could be an upgrade for me from my note 9

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or i'll just go back to the note 9. that's it for now make sure you're

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