i've been patiently waiting for samsung to send over
a galaxy z fold two and i'm still waiting for samsung to send a galaxy z
full two but that's okay cause our bros over at d brand sent one over and i am extremely
excited to check this thing out i was a big fan of the original fold with my
main three complaints being one that the hinge did not hold up for
me so i opened mine up and i don't know if you can tell very easily but it's really
noticeable in the hand that's not quite 180 degrees open you
gotta i have to kind of like overcrank it in order to get it flat
every time i open the device number two the youtube stories feature in the
youtube app that rolls to this phone doesn't work for whatever reason i can't
upload stories which as a youtuber is sort of a problem for me and number
three the maximum screen brightness is just
not enough dbrand sent this which should be fairly
obv should be fairly obvious from the skin
on the back of the phone you know dbrand you guys are gonna have
trouble as phones become more and more screened i couldn't help noticing you guys have
less and less skin to apply but hey at least if your business is gonna
disappear at least you guys are having fun over there putting uh putting them meme faces on
them phones you can check them out dbrand.com i had actually forgotten how much of a
problem that was on the original fold and it doesn't entirely fix it because
most of what they've added is in the chin and the forehead here but
the bezels are smaller even if this is kind of hidden yeah you can see they're
still pretty sizable but they're quite a bit smaller which means that you're not feeling
quite as cramped at least you're able to have you know four home screen icons
abreast here that's a pretty big difference maker
that hinge
that is next generation oh
i am extremely pleased with that now in defense of the original fold
mine's a little worn out this has been fairly heavily used but
you see that that kind of that crack and
how wobbly that is you see that here's the z
fold too quite stiff
it actually feels like it like a tablet in the hand
that is a night and day difference
the other immediately noticeable external difference is that
gone is the separate lock and fingerprint sensor buttons so just like
on one of the old xperia's from back in the day they've combined the fingerprint sensor
and the lock button let's have a look at what the performance is like so
oh samsung as much as i love the idea
of underscreen fingerprint sensors your ultrasonic ones just
are not as fast as your less ultrasonic ones
that's really responsive feels good
feels really good 120 hertz display baby
love that OLED sorry sorry uh after the setup process when you migrate all your
text messages and contacts and apps and all that stuff it gives you a
little summary that says hey here's some things we couldn't do you need to go manually back up your
whatsapp and transfer that over i thought that was really cool not because like i would forget to do that but if it
was my in-laws it'd be nice to have like a little summary like that of all the
maintenance tasks you still need to complete i want to compare the maximum
screen brightness here because daytime readability was a significant
problem for me that is quite a lot brighter
okay well this is good uh wait that one
has a blue light filter on there you go well there's your problem there but in terms of brightness
that is definitely brighter and one of the things that bothered me about the old fold only sometimes though was that
if you looked at it directly you couldn't see the crease but if you
went off axis you see that you can really see it
so i want to compare that effect on the new one oh it's still there
it's still there turns out you can't put a big crease down the middle of your
display and not be able to see it you see that it is better it's
definitely better but it's also definitely still there the
good news is that that is an absolute worst case
scenario for it and in something like video content you are much much less
likely to notice it to let people with legal copies of
Windows 7 or 8 upgrade to Windows 10 for free many users have reported the free
upgrade don't pay for a key the os will still
work just fine man this is a lot of screen real estate so speakers i would describe
as okay i mean really i don't know if
there's much they can do about that this is an extremely slim device and at least
they're providing stereo speakers which i love the configuration because you can
hold it on the bottom like this and the speakers are here and here so they're never going to be
obstructed you're basically watching a video at the same size as your old
iphone for you've got your video description or if
the app was better optimized you know maybe your comments or something down here
now that's curious my old fold doesn't actually have that same tablety layout
when i'm not in full screen so that's pretty cool what i had really
wanted to show you guys though was the gigantic notch i just wish samsung had done away with
it entirely but this is way better and way less
distracting than this let's see if i'm able to upload a story
see look at that they are determined for me
to not daily drive this device as far as i can tell no posts
no stories all right most of what andy's telling me he wants to know about this
is more like review territory you know battery life
can you daily drive the outside screen i personally found that with my
small hands small fingers i was able to do it on the old one so i'm actually
expecting this to be a way better experience but there is
something that i want to touch on here on ShortCircuit before we do the LTT
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i didn't realize how much wider it was
like it felt it felt really big in my hands and heavy and stuff but
it is way wider than the original fold so anyway with the original fold there
was a big hubbub around the supposed pre-installed screen protector
that as it turned out was actually just part of the screen people removed them
it caused a big big problem but with the z
fold 2 there actually is an included screen protector and
i gotta say just from the very short amount of time that i've spent with it
so far i really don't like it now samsung
apparently has a procedure well they will replace it for you once
but i think the recommendation is to keep it on the problem is that
the feel of the screen as i'm swiping is
really sticky and initially i thought well maybe it's just because my fingers
are greasy but it's there's a lot of resistance there like
that's the one thing going from gen 1 to gen 2 that is
immediately noticeably better about the original is that it doesn't have that
screen protector on it so it seems both the front one and the inside one
are removable i just the problem though is that guys this is not gorilla glass
on the inside so you can't just you know scratch your keys on it and
hope for the best like this thing will freaking scratch if you remove that
screen protector it feels not very good though to be
honest with you especially for like what is this two thousand dollars or something u.s for this thing
like eighteen hundred dollars something like that you know what i think the
optimal selfie camera configuration would be for this thing
it's actually no selfie camera
like why don't you just hold it like this and just
see yourself in the preview up here and just take your picture with your rear
shooter like the more you can use your best lens on the device
the better in my opinion although if they do have to have a selfie camera
here i'm relatively okay with that i just wish that there wasn't one ah see
yeah chrome chrome hides it but let's find uh let's find something that doesn't hide yeah
yuck man it is such a different experience
i don't even have to like click a picture just like
it's awesome yeah the camera bumps higher than last time andy but
uh i don't know i mean maybe the rear camera is also better than last time i
haven't obviously spent any time with it yet but
so far on paper i'm really excited to check this thing
out though it addresses my biggest complaints about the original galaxy
fold and it even just it just feels better like listen listen
to the sound whereas listen to this one
okay that doesn't sound much better never mind well it felt better
i'm gonna give it a shot though i'm gonna daily drive this at least two weeks before i write
my review and then i'll either be switching to it finally
finally something that could be an upgrade for me from my note 9
or i'll just go back to the note 9. that's it for now make sure you're
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