Behold The $2000 Samsung Galaxy Fold

Galaxy Fold! Is it the future? Dave2D, what do you say

We're just going... okay. I think it's the future. It could be a future

We're listening. Folding technology is a very foreseeable future. This is the early stage. This is the first gen. Is this the iPhone 1 of smartphones in the future of folding phones

This is a product that has to exist on the market in some form or another as that first gen

What is it that you like about this? I like the idea of it more than anything else. But there's no way that you're going out and being like, hey, this is a phone people should be buying

They listed the price right around 2Gs. I know, man. That is so much money

1980. If you buy it for $2,000, there's a very good chance you're going to regret that purchase decision

When that second gen one comes out, you're going to be like, I should have held out for this one

If you want to be on the fringe, on the edge, you want to have the latest thing

you should accept some of the responsibility that comes with that, which is unpolished products from time to time

Of course the last folding phone we saw was that wacky thing that showed up at CES The Royale And it was a lot less finished than this but it did act as an indication for the premise When I saw this presentation from Samsung

and I, you know, with the stage. You liked it? Hang on a second

The stage and the guy and the sound. And I was like, you know what

I like technology. I was like, you know what? I do this for a reason

and this reminded me of some of the wow factor that used to be associated with smartphones i'm

seeing you were you were starting to see i'm kind of seeing it but here's the thing when they first

brought it out i think that was the the initial reaction was that looks cool that they actually

made one that's great but over the course of that like presentation halfway through you could kind

of there was that sense of like well the realistic stuff started to sink in yeah you're like wait

high price, weight, weird mechanism, weight, fat phone. Any kind of ambitious approach

is going to have to be met with some degree of skepticism. This was presented to you by another company that wasn't Samsung. Yes

Let's say it was... Give me a company. But it'd have to be a no-name company. Like, let's call it... Royale. Royale

Sure. Would you still have that same feeling? Absolutely not. I didn't. Because it has a Samsung badge on it

you're like, wow, I think they can actually deliver this at scale. It a stretch of your imagination of what you can do with this device Even if it comes in hand and you holding it and you using it it like you basically trying to find usage scenarios They showing multitasking which apparently is going to be improved

Look at that shot. You see, that's how you sell products. Look at that. It looks good. There's a guy

There's metal. It looks good. South Korea. The mechanics of it. Samsung

Are great. But realistically, man, if you're using that device, you're not looking at the gears

If you're looking for tried and true, if you don't have all this money kicking around

to take chances on products like this, this is not for you

A squarish screen is not something that we're used to using, right? Yeah, apps, games

You gotta design everything around that. Yeah, absolutely. Like, you know that's gonna be janky when it comes out

but you also know we're just gonna have it. Like, let's be honest, we're gonna have it

You're gonna have to play with it. You're gonna have to see it. You're gonna make a video about it

In fact, knowing you, you'll probably, This, that might even be a laptop

No, not at all. Fold as a screen. This says we're Samsung

Yeah, our stuff folds. Yeah. Screens, we can fold them. I was reading something this morning about the kind of pressure this puts on Apple

Specifically, they buy OLED displays from Samsung. Right. Is this something they want to sell to anyone else

Can you see Apple pulling a product like that out of the keynote? It a new Apple right now Apple patent filing reveals design for foldable iPhone right there Business Insider one day ago Apparently theirs is going to fold in two directions

Whether you're a fan of it or not, if it's acting as the F1 vehicle of the tech universe

you have to have a play. You got to put a car in the race. If Apple chooses to do that, as this patent filing would indicate

they are in a big way going to be relying on Samsung to deliver the components necessary to do so

You know they're working on this stuff anyways, right? I just think it's strange that Samsung put this particular unit out as the, you can buy this

In April, you can buy that wacky thing. Yeah. And it has a Samsung brand name on it. Yeah

It's wacky. But refreshing is what you're saying. Weirdly. Like almost everybody's smartphone is this giant slab now

Because what? Because human beings didn't even know how they were going to use these things

Human beings got these things and then all of a sudden they're on the couch. All of a sudden. So are we at a point in time where human beings will address them like computers and just say, I want a bigger computer

I'm starting to open up to the idea, okay? That's all I'm saying, Dave, but I hear you, man

You're being logical, reasonable, and that's what I love about you. Dave 2D, ladies and gentlemen, best channel on YouTube

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