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There's no question, this phone is cooler than what you currently own. It's the fifth generation Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 Android smartphone and it's a pretty remarkable device. Tech expert Dave Taylor spent the last week working with the phone and offers up lots of demo photos and video, along with a detailed assessment of the pros and cons of this particular Android 13 phone. You'll want to watch and check it out!
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This is a really cool design, but is it a good Android phone? Let's check it out
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[♪ Music ♪ Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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This is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 Android smartphone, and I kind of fell in love with it in a lot of ways
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It's a really cool design, just to answer that question right off the bat
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So, it has a full-size screen on the front, and then when you open it up
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then you have a full-size Android display, just like you have on your current Android phone, probably
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And, again, all you have to do is close it, and it goes into a sleep mode with an always-on display
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that's showing the time, and battery level, and number of notifications, and the date
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And, of course, I can just push, and that's actually this power button
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is also the fingerprint scanner, so I'm actually unlocking it by doing that
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And then you can get to different apps and do different things while it's unlocked, which is cool
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But, of course, the real fun is when you open it up, and you can actually have the full screen
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But, it also has modes like this. So, if I unlock it, and actually unlock it, show you what happens
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is I can go into a mode like that, where I might be watching a video on this screen
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and interacting with the content on the lower half of the screen
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One thing that's really important is when you open it up, it is fully flat
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And then, when you close it, it closes fully. This does mean, if you get dirt or anything in the middle
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that could have a deleterious effect on your screen overall. But, as long as you keep it nice and clean, you hopefully won't have any issues
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Now, I did an unboxing video, which you probably want to check out
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to find out everything that was in the box. But, let me go through the specs again, and then I have a ton of demo photos and video content
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because I know that's a lot of what people like to look at. So, the front screen is... let's get this back into this bright display mode
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The front screen is a 3.4-inch cover screen. It's 720 by 748 pixels
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And then, you open it up, and it's a 6.7-inch main screen at 2640 by 1080
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And it's powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 octa-core, with either 256 or 512 gig of storage, and 8 gig of RAM
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So, plenty of storage. Android 13, Bluetooth 5.3. Unfortunately, it also comes with all the Samsung apps and the Samsung UI on top of Android 13
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So, it does have a slightly different flavor than if you were running, say, a Google Pixel
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But, it's pretty easy to get used to. Now, dual-SIM capable, and then the rear-facing cameras, there's two of them
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One of which is a 12-megapixel wide-angle f1.8, and the other is a 12-megapixel ultra-wide f2.2
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It's a little slower, but it's a wider field of view. And then, front-facing, let me bring up something so you can maybe see
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Let's launch an app. Here we go. So, you can see here, there's a little punch-out here, and you see it in the close-up too
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and that's the front-facing camera. And that is a 10-megapixel wide-angle f2.2
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Now, there's more I want to talk about, but let's just jump right into photos
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and then we'll jump into video. And know, I've done most of these with a tripod, so most of these are not handheld
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First shot here is a wide-angle, and then we go to 1x, 2.5x, and 5x zoom
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The zoom breaks down a little bit, but still, it's pretty darn cool
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I'm going to show you two different selfies. This one is just a regular selfie that was taken with the phone in its normal, I guess, horizontal orientation
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And then this one is actually a selfie I took while it was in folded mode
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So, of course, they're using the same camera. I just wanted to show you that it sort of automatically compensates for the orientation of the camera
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Macro, super cool. I'm really very impressed by this photo. And then, night mode was fantastic
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So, I've done a lot of night mode photos with, like, Google Pixels
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and they can take up to five minutes to capture an image. These, the longest image captured here across these different photos I'm showing you, was six seconds
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And this one of my house is beautiful. I could use this in a real estate listing
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It's very, very attractive. Now, let's switch to video, because video is even more fun
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So, here's 1x video. 2.5x video. 5x video
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A selfie. This is a sample selfie video, and I am under a bridge with water running behind me
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So, there's a lot of environmental and background noise. But, hopefully, you can still hear me pretty well
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As you can see, the camera's doing a nice job either way. Slow motion video footage
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Time-lapse video footage. And, finally, an example of director mode. This is an example of what Samsung calls director mode
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And I'm seeing both the image being captured from the selfie cam
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and I'm having a chance to use the other camera and move around and capture this video, which is pretty fun, actually
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It's a pretty cool effect. All in all, I think these are really very impressive
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This is so much to go for this phone. And, of course, Samsung has been doing generation after generation of not just their phones
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but their flip phones. This is their fifth generation flip phone, which means they've had a lot of practice figuring this out
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The hinge is actually really, really well done. It's just a very smooth motion, and you can stop it at any point
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If you wanted to have your phone sitting like this, you can do that. That's totally fine
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And, of course, if you're using it in that sort of viewing angle
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you can do any angle, and it will just sit exactly in that spot
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Or you can close it all the way, and then on the very edge, it actually just has Samsung emblazoned on it
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I suppose, at some point, maybe the Flip 17, this will be a tiny screen, too
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Until then, I'm not sure you'd really need that, but they'll probably come up with that
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So, a couple more specs to talk about. 3,700 mAh battery, up to 35 hours of talk time, according to Samsung
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Qi Fast Charging 2.0, so it does wireless charging with the back here
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And it's the faster generation of it, which is good because it doesn't have a great battery life
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They say you'll get a 50% charge in 30 minutes when you plug it into the USB-C on the bottom
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But my experience is that I often use the phone, and then put it on standby, and then go do something else for a day
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And I have some phones where it's kind of eerie that two weeks later, it'll still be at almost a full charge
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So their standby mode is super efficient. This one is not that phone
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If you have this phone, and you just close it up and put it on the side table while you go for your run
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and then your evening activities, and then you sleep, and you wake up
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you'll have lost a significant percentage of battery life. So that is something that a lot of people have commented on
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is that the phone's really cool, but one of its limitations is it probably could have had a bigger battery
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or it could have had a little bit more efficiency in terms of how it utilizes that energy to stretch out your battery life
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Now, truth be told, modern phones are really all about charge every time you can
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So if you're near a Qi wireless charger, then you're going to just want to drop that on
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and even if you can eek out 5% or 10%, hey, that's 5% or 10% charge, right
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So that's a benefit. Now, one of the other things I want to give Samsung props for
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is that this is also a 5-star EcoScore. So the packaging, the phone, the way they designed the whole thing
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the way they packaged it all is very eco-friendly, which is important
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You can see the box. This is literally the height of the box
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It used to be you'd get these big boxes with little devices inside
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and now they're really trying to minimize that, because number one, they can ship more
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It's much more efficient to actually move them around. But number two, it's much more environmentally friendly
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So really big props to Samsung. And in terms of assessing this phone, I really, really like it
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In fact, what I have said to people when they've been looking at it is
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I would absolutely, no thought involved, go and buy an iPhone that had this feature
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because I'm kind of more of an iPhone than an Android person at this point
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because of the ecosystem of Apple products. But this is really one that made me think twice
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because it is really cool. When you get notifications and stuff on this screen
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make it a little bit more interesting, it's actually pretty cool. And you can change what's on here
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and the notifications can lead you to apps, and you can do photos, all without opening up your phone
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which means that you have something that's just much more easy and compact to work with
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And that's really nice, because a lot of phones are getting bigger and bigger and bigger
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And one of the phones I most recently reviewed was actually the Pixel Fold
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which was, if you imagine, two of these phones, right? And another one next to it, and then it folded and it opened up
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And that just felt like too much screen real estate. If I wanted that much screen real estate, then I would go ahead and just get a tablet
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But this gives you a regular size Android phone, and it's just a size that everyone's used to
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but you can fold it in half, and now you have this entirely different way of interacting with the system
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Very cool. Now, not much else to tell you. It has the typical power and volume up and down buttons on the right-hand side
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and then on the bottom it's USB-C for charging. It includes a USB-C cable
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which you would have known if you would have checked out my unboxing video. And that's it
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So, that's everything there is. So, on the plus side, the design is fantastic
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They've done a really great job of implementing the screen and everything
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and it feels... there's a little bit of a feel of a fold
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but generally it's really close to being seamless. And, of course, the whole idea of being able to have that extra screen is super cool
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So, lots to like here. It's a little spendy, and it's a little bit weak on the battery side
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but there's a lot of pros that compensate for that. So, definitely one worth checking out
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Now, we do need to talk about the price. So, before we get to the price
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And we can be connected. Great. This... let me again get back to that other screen
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This is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 Android smartphone. It's a loaner from AT&T for me to be able to do this review
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Thank you, AT&T. And it comes in... this is... let me show you the back here
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It comes in mint, graphite, lavender, and cream. This is graphite, a.k.a. black
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And it is $999.99 or $27.78 a month for 36 months at att.com
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There are other places you can pick one up, and you might be able to find different pricing
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but since AT&T sent me this, I'm going to promote their pricing
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So, really, so much to like. A little bummed I have to send it back
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but, you know, that's how it goes with these loaners. So, one to definitely check out
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If you're in the market for a new Android phone, this is definitely one you want to check out
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especially if you're already into the Samsung ecosystem. And there's a lot going for that, too
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That's all I got. I'm going to go back to my phone. So I have to catch you in my next video
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I'm going to catch you in my next video
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