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There's no question that the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 Smartphone is an amazing device. It folds! Super cool. But is that crease enough to make this a dangerous acquisition for the long term? And how are the cameras? Tech expert Dave Taylor got his hands on a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3, courtesy of AT&T, and tested it out. The camera is splendid, the videos are sharp and crisp, and the coolness factor is excellent. But should you buy one?
Check it out at: https://www.att.com/buy/phones/samsung-galaxy-z-flip3-5g-128gb-cream.html
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This is one of the most amazing phones on the market
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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Well, let me open it up. This is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G smartphone, and as you can see, it folds
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It is an amazing phone with a big, bright screen, and when you close it up, a little tiny
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notification screen that actually gives you some decent functionality right there on the front
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But look at those dimensions. So cool. This is a really cool phone
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And the idea of having this sort of folding screen is really fascinating
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Now, it comes with some problems, which I'll talk about in a bit. But let's start by just talking about the phone itself
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So it features a 6.7-inch AMO LED 1080 by 2640 screen. so it's a nice high-res, high-density screen
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And then this front screen is a little 1.9-inch, also AMO-L-ED cover screen
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It's using Gorilla Glass Victus, so it is pretty tough. It should last pretty well with some caveats
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Again, we'll get to that in a few minutes. Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, the SM-8350-888-Octacore
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with Adrino 6600 GPU. it has cameras. Of course, all these smartphones have cameras
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In fact, I have lots of cool camera demos. So we're going to get to that in just a second. So facing the back, you have a 12 megapixel F 1.8 wide and a 12 megapixel F2.2 ultra wide
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And then the front camera is a 10 megapixel F2.4 camera. So let's actually go ahead and jump in and I'll show you some of the camera demos that I have
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First off, these are four levels of zoom. I'm just tapping on
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on the different zoom levels in the camera app. And then here's a selfie
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And then here a demo of night mode on my street And the night mode not glorious I have to say that my iPhone 13 does amazingly better with night mode but those photos overall I really impressed with the camera here
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That selfie in particular was very nuanced on the colors there. But what about video
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All right, well, here's a regular video. And then we can switch into slow-mo
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And then possibly my favorite of all the modes, one that I really love on this device
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is Director Mode, and you'll see how that works. So this is Director's View where it's actually simultaneously recording the selfie camera
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which is what I'm on, and the front-facing camera, which is the actual river
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And I'm hoping you can hear you, but this is a really cool mode
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And with a wireless microphone hooked up to the phone, there's a lot of you
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a lot you can do with this and this obviously is really great for social media
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Anyway, I've had a lot of pictures of the river and you can see why I hope this is one of my
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favorite little secret spots that I use for testing cameras. The Flip3 features a 3,300 millan amp hour battery which should give you somewhere around
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30 hours or so depending on what you're doing. As with all these phones, you can really stress your battery with really high CPU demand
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to apps and applications and usage. But you can also sort of nurse it along if you're just listening to music or it's just sitting
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there and giving you notifications while you're working or something. Your battery is going to last longer
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8 gig of RAM. You can get it in 128 gig or 256 gig of storage and it runs Android 111 and Samsung's one UI 3.1.1
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and let's see. I'm not sure I can really show you much of what that looks like
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but it's pretty slick. It's very fast. It's very responsive. This is like really a state-of-the-art phone here
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It is IPX-8 water resistance, which means you can drop this in the shallow end of your pool
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and take 30 minutes to pick it out and it'll still be fine
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I do not recommend taking 30 minutes. I do not recommend dropping it in your pool but suffice to say if you splash to say if you splash coffee on it or something you do not have to immediately panic and say oh my God what did I just do So dimensions it is 166 millimeters by 72 millimeters by 7 millimeters
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which translates to 6.5 inches by 2.8 inches by 0.27 inches. So that's just about a quarter of an inch thick
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And when you have it closed, of course, now you have different dimensions
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So now it's 34 by, sorry, 3.4 by 2.8 by 0.63 inches or 86 millimeters by 72 millimeters by 16 millimeters. Got all that? So suffice to say, you close it and it's just a tiny, amazing little phone. I mean, honestly, just like this. This is just so cool with the time displayed and everything on the front. I really like this. But the fact that you can actually tap on it and then, you can. You can actually tap on it. And then, you know, you know
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use it and get controls like music controls are really, really cool
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Comes in a ton of colors. Cream, phantom black, green, lavender, gray, white and pink
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The last three are online order only. Which leads us to the question, is it a good phone
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Is it worth the money? And the answer is that it's an amazing phone, but it's still, I don't feel it's quite ready for prime time
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The issue with it is the screen and the folding. So even right here, there's a visible bump, but the problem is what's it going to be like
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in a year? What's it going to be like in two years? And my sources of Best Buy tell me that they're getting a lot of these as returns because
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people are complaining that it's delaminating at the hinge. And what they mean by delaminating is that this screen is actually layers of material and the
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layers start to come apart, which means that your hinge is no longer a magic seamless thing
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you open it up, but something that visibly is not working correctly or is bent or is warping
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or something. So I think that this journey for us to get these bending and flexible screens
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we are definitely on that journey and they're definitely moving along pretty fast. But I'm not
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sure I would recommend this as an acquisition because I think that there still another couple of generations of flexible screen to go through before we really have great tech Now you might be someone that wants to be so on the cutting edge that you okay
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if it's a little bleedy. And that's what this might be. This might be the bleeding edge of phones
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because there is just a huge level of coolness. When I've had it out just to play around with and just
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try, people immediately gravitate over and they want to see it and they want to look at it
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and see how that fold works and everything. And that's really cool
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If you're sick of your friends talking about the latest iPhone, you know, Apple can't do this with its phones
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So this is definitely one where there's a lot of sort of tech sex appeal, if you will
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But on the other hand, if you're going to have a phone for the next four or five years, which might be your usage pattern, then I don't know that this is going to last that long
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I think you're going to have some serious issues. So at the least, you probably want to get an insurance and protection program
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But that's up to you. Now, really all that's left to talk about is the price, and I will talk about the price, but before we get there, I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my channel
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I gave you lots of photos and videos. What else would you have liked to have seen about this phone
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That's it. Always appreciate your feedback, and then let's get to the price
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This is the Samsung Galaxy Z flip three. smartphone and it is $999 and 99 or 2778 a month times 36 months and I got this one through
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AT&T so I'm going to link it to them but you can obviously also get it through Samsung.com
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love the technology this is so cool this has just an amazing piece of technology but I'm not sure
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I would want to have this for a multi-year smartphone so that's my assessment I'm going to go back and
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take some more video because really was impressed with that and I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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