over 3 000 us dollars i paid for this
thing you people better watch this video twice welcome to another episode of Linus buys
stuff he doesn't even know how much it costs from china this is the samsung
w21 the color is majestic gold the capacity
is 512 gigabytes
and it is an exclusive premium edition
folding phone for china only look at this packaging
is that incredible or what oh
shiny okay so it's like good luck
um no
you have the heart of the entire world i wasn't that far off
that's exit right uh yes yes
okay i got one word hold on oh that's people or person
no what oh for crying out loud
look i tried before we go any further though i'm gonna break tradition
and i'm going to actually consult the manufacturer's website
okay so basically it's just a galaxy fold but in gold
angular shining transformation
metal cutting inheriting the vision and ingenuity of the samsung w flagship
series wow my expectations are very high right
now wonderful in the palm of your form
life is like a wave of ups and downs and only when the peaks and valleys are
tempered and improved can they be exceptionally exciting
wow this phone is gonna change my [ __ ] life
the mighty general gate opens w
world damn i mean i i was impressed by the box i mean i did have a lot of fun
opening it but you can tolerate great friends and close
friends as well as the various possibilities in the future me i do
tolerate my friends i don't like them but i tolerate them oh
it has dual sim well that's nice that's an improvement
over the regular galaxy fold enough talk let's take a look at this
thing seen enough manuals in my day all right
cool more documentation and this is it
that does actually look pretty darn
sharp
oh wow you can really hear the texture of the phone
just pulling the sticker off that color is surprisingly classy man
in the picture it looked more like uh
it looked more like tacky like a really yellowy gold
that is actually kind of classy
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is that right samsung doesn't have that on the regular fold even though it's a 2
000 phone whoa
wait wait wait
shut the front door what is this 24 hour you can call any like
thing uh get any pickup service for the
airport what with the phone
what is this samsung has a vip lounge
no way so this is like got
travel benefits that come with your for the first year i would think or
something right one year no that's what that one year is
for the just in case you break the screen so you have one year screen replacement
and a bunch 24 24 hour support
and then like travel travel benefits
like faster security checkpoints and pick up for the airport anytime
what the hell is going on how much did i pay for this thing
got a super fast charger included you've got uh
some akg headphones included i'm not
gonna bother type c to c for charging data transfer
or whatever of course what i had actually wanted to know and the reason i ordered this thing
in the first place all the way from china was whether the dimensions were actually
any different from the regular z-fold 2.
and there were rumors that it was taller but it seems like
that was a big load of horseplot because
it is clearly exactly the same phone
and seeing them side by side dang i take the gold one i take the
shiny like that's so boring
it does look really nice the front too like this is too plain now
over 3 000 us dollars i paid for this
thing you people better watch this video twice
yeah so there's the one difference dual
sim versus single sim for the original fold
and this like travel chinese travel edition one
i'm disappointed it didn't get microsd but i guess the rationale is pretty
simple if you can afford this like golden general phone
then there's only one sku the 512 gig one and
if you got 512 gigs you don't need no stinking microsd card
oh whoa look at this
oh there it is i wonder if they've made any revisions to like the folding
mechanism or anything it's hard to tell because this one's also brand new but it does seem like it
might be a bit stiffer yeah it feels stiffer but this one's
quite used now just like the regular z-fold 2
fingerprint scanners on the right actually like this it's really fast to
use that's pretty sick desktop wallpaper
oh my god it has so much
junk pre-installed on it i mean then again it's only
junk because i don't recognize it i guess all the google stuff that comes
okay no it's junk it's there's tick tock on here
the heart of the world yeah uh okay
well i want to go to the heart of the world
yes the server's pretty far away man i love that 120 hertz display man
very slow animation i hate
that that might be something that you can reconfigure though
see that just like a really different animation style
oh no that time it came down fast did they not have Android auto in china or
something i kind of want to try and daily drive this thing there just might be
like little deal breakers like that let's see
oh shoot there's still stuff that's coming up in chinese it's actually
slightly different hardware so that might be a problem well given
that i guess it's not the best three thousand dollars i ever spent for
a different color of a phone that i already own and that is in perfect
working condition but definitely looks sweet and if i needed
all those like you know special travel services or
whatever then i mean i guess it would depend how much
those services cost just separate from a phone thanks samsung for
creating this this little curiosity and thanks to you
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