Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Hands On - Better Than Razr?

We checked out the S20 Ultra, S20 Plus, and the S20, but there was this new phone

new form factor, that also showed up at the same event, so you know we have to check that one out

This is the new folding device from Samsung, but it's much different than their last folding device

Of course, the Galaxy Fold was kind of more like a folding tablet, really, because when you opened it up, it was much bigger than a phone

Then Motorola came with their next generation Razer. That was the Motorola Razer 2020

And then Samsung did their very own version of that kind of a fold

Folds into this tiny little square and then pops open into a smartphone

There's the Galaxy Fold. Now nothing against this. This thing is a lot of fun

When it's in your pocket, it actually feels bigger already than a typical smartphone

Then when you open it up, as you would most of the time, as fun as this thing is to use

that's really a tablet at that point. To shrink a device down

that premise could be attractive to a completely different group of people from just the power users

who want a tablet in their pocket, let's say. Let me just give a quick pocket on that

Hold up. Let's do a pocket comparison of that versus here. We have the S20 Ultra

Yeah, that one pokes out. It's a little bulkier because it's folded up. But this one, it almost goes right to the edge of the pocket

This one definitely feels less cumbersome. Yeah, it's a flip phone. You can do that with it

Although, it's more of a two-handed thing. Maybe closing it for sure you can do

This screen is actually glass rather than plastic. But it does feel kind of nice to the touch

Now you definitely feel the crease in there. How much does that affect you

How much do you get used to it? Let me know what you think. Give a scroll past that crease there in the middle

You can definitely feel it. It's quite a crease. It's, yeah, it's definitely there

You probably adjust to scroll at the bottom. You just scroll down here and you never touch the crease

Yeah. it's definitely going to offend some, but the advantage here, Will, is

that's the thing, that's the magic trick. You can also see the camera unit while you're looking here

So no you not getting a fancy enormous camera layout like the Ultra Model S20 but you got two cameras in there you also take a little step back in terms of performance not a crazy step back it an 855 snapdragon chip

instead of the 865 that you have in the s20 lineup it does feel weird poking the back end of your

fingernail into the screen surface like that okay so you dig your thumb and then you kind of do that

It's doable. This phone right here, it's not Galaxy Fold money, but it's S20 Ultra money

As you can see, since it's such a tall device, you get enormous black bars

when you have a regular 16 by nine piece of content like this

You can zoom in and fill the whole thing, but you're chopping off a fair amount of the top and bottom

I understand people are watching content like this. When I'm holding it in landscape here

and I'm watching this content, I don't think about the crease at all. As I just wobble it around, that crease will show back up

It is a limitation of the technology as it stands right now. And so you kind of have to address it

It's a question people have. I'm not trying to rain on any parade. I think it's a magnificent feat of engineering

I think the thing is very cool. But it's just something that you're kind of forced to talk about

because that's what people do. They buy a thing, they inspect a thing

And they're going to, for their $1,400, you best believe they're going to be rubbing that crease

I'm just recording a video right now. on the phone call, but then Kirk formatted the card from the original intro

Now this one, it's just a mono. Just a mono setup, just coming out of one speaker

Can your desk get cleaned up a little bit? A single speaker setup on a phone, you can cover it accidentally

Particularly with this one, you're going to hold like this. So that's a bit of a drawback, but probably not a deal breaker

Again, for the target audience of this particular device. All right, in the camera setup, you've just got these two toggles

You have the .5X, which is the wide. I think that's the more important secondary option

And then you have the standard. You could go in there and hit it with the digital

Obviously, that still exists, and they give you some toggle options here

to utilize if you prefer. On a video standpoint there, we head into the settings

You can see that our rear resolution goes all the way up to 4K at 60 frames

So no fancy exotic 8K on this particular device, but we didn't expect to see that

So that's pretty obvious. So the camera can work at any stage

It almost like having a stand for your phone as you can see this is an alternative to just laying your phone flat on the table so you could have it like this look i could snap a selfie right there bang it like a little tripod and bang those look at those now of course there no bend in

them once you pop them out that's just a straight up type of solution there so it's kind of

interesting it's created some opportunities for samsung with their one ui design and within

certain applications to take advantage of this midway operation the multi-view which on other

devices will split your phone in a variety of ways has a setting here so you can have a halfway

right along the crease and essentially have a dual display setup. So on the bottom, I could open up

let's say, camera like that. There's Jack. And then on the top, you have a YouTube video, which is playing

Now, of course, you could do this with any variety of applications. Now you're like, oh, maybe there's

an actual advantage to having this crease where you could work around it. You could have, for example

a messaging app down on the bottom. You have this sitting on the table, you have a video playing on

the top and you're tapping some sort of message back to someone without disrupting your video

But it is one of the benefits of Samsung at least putting some energy into the software component

and how to think about these emerging form factors. Now, if you're on the outside of the device and

you double tap the power button, you can see, look at that, that's weird. So the selfie camera will

actually pop up in that tiny little display how big is this display right here well it's a 1.1

inch display but i guess it lets you sort of frame something up and snap a photo and then what happens

if i open it up boom you got your photo sometimes it's hard to grip the huge phone and then at the

same time trigger the selfie so this one lets you quickly double tap into it and then this button is

super easy to press single-handed, get it far away from yourself. You get a smaller battery in here

you get less horsepower obviously. The screen is still pretty large, it's 6.7 inches

Now Samsung says that they've done some improvements here around the hinge design to stop debris from getting in there so they say it gonna be a bit more durable On the S20 Ultra which is available for roughly the same price it a 5 milliamp hour battery whereas in here it only gonna be 3 milliamp hours

So that's, I think that's gonna be a big consideration for power users who are interested in this device

But like I said, I think the target here is kind of different

And I think maybe that's why Samsung's release and announcement happened all at once

They're like, look, we have something for everyone. I gotta say, I'm glad Samsung's working on it because it's cool in an environment that's full of these slabs to have these alternative options pop up

One thing I will say, you pick up one of these and start using it, you're going to catch some attention for sure when you pop that thing open

Is it cool enough? Is the novelty aspect enough to push you away from, say, purchasing the Ultra for your $1,400

100%. Oh! Yeah, if I could have this, I would take this over the Ultra

Wow, he took the Ultra in the last video. He just switched. Will, did your decision change or do you stick to the regular S20 if forced to choose from this entire bunch

I'd go for S20. He stays with S20, ladies and gentlemen. How about you, Jack

We never asked you. We've now seen all the phones. We have the fancy flip

We have the standard S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra. Which one, if you're forced to jump ship from iPhone

which obviously isn't going to happen but if you had to choose i'd go ultra he goes ultra that's

not what i expected jack goes full cinema mode he's hanging on to a ronin sc and all of a sudden

he's in ultra mode ultra territory it all happened early in the morning uh it's very exciting exciting

times it's always cool when samsung puts out new stuff this is no exception this is actually a

little better than usual because there's so many different things to look at they're doing work

man people are putting stuff out you got to appreciate it technology is wild stuff is folding

and we're talking about creases in 2020 it's amazing it's i'm telling when this stuff first

started was full out science fiction it's amazing how quickly we get used to things

all of a sudden you carry the fold for a while you're like yeah screens fold now

screens fold now then you see the motorola screen fold now then you see this little flip

yeah screens fold now and eventually given enough time people are going to be

everything's going to fold eventually