Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 Unboxing

It's incredible how different this feels

It's such an improvement. My goodness, it feels polished now. You can have this variety of angles here, as you can see

Oh, baby, there it is. It's the hottest new smartphone right now

We are fresh off the heels of the event. It is the latest folding device from Samsung

I remember being back here, it was like a year ago, with the original Galaxy Fold, which was so different, so strange

It got me all fired up. It got the world fired up. That video has like 17 million views

Well, today they're back, and they claim to have made absolutely everything better

about the Galaxy Fold, which is now called the Z Fold 2

And in fact, the box also says 5G, 5G-capable device. This is set to be the premium, powerhouse, multifunctional..

Is it a tablet? Is it a phone? We're still not certain. It's a computing device that fits in your pocket

and does some really amazing things, to be honest. And it's part of this march towards a completely new form factor

This could be it in front of me right now. Z Fold 2 5G

Flip around to the side of the box. Mystic Bronze appears to be the color that I have in front of me

And it's kind of a fancy package. You start to pull off this cover on the outside

you have the folding indication on the packaging smooth box and oh look at this a little description

first they're gonna tell you about how they're changing the shape of the future before they show

you the actual device introducing galaxy z fold 2 5g reimagine the possibilities of the smartphone

experience unlock endless versatility and enjoy unrivaled engineering and craftsmanship welcome to the new mobile era. So, I mean, they're saying it big here. They're basically telling you this is

the future. You have no choice. You will be folding. Is it true? That remains to be seen, but

I definitely think there is some stage possibly beyond the slab, and this is maybe the closest

that we have right now. We remove that. First things first, a little bit of paperwork here by

the looks of it. Yeah, it's paperwork and a SIM card tool, as would be expected with any smartphone

Then we see the actual unit. The care instruction is there as well. This is specific to this folding

device, and it's similar to what we had with the previous version. Of course, there was a lot

of press around some of the drawbacks of the original version from a durability standpoint

even though i never expected it to be the most durable thing some people had worse experiences

than others they claimed to have fixed many of the durability issues including a completely new

hinge design which aims to remove debris they've done a lot here they've got the micro slim sort

of glass film situation on the front so they paid some attention they've re-engineered it and my

Oh my goodness, it gets you every time, doesn't it? It feels solid in the hand

I do have the original Galaxy Fold over there, so I will be doing a quick comparison

after I get the plastic off of this one. When using a wireless charger, fold the device

and place the center of the devices back on the center of the wireless charger. This new Z Fold 2, the styling, very similar in fact

to the new Note series device with this, well, first with the Mystic Color

but then also with the camera module and the shape of it

let's just remove the plastic. Why don't we? That's what you do here, isn't it

Oh, wow. Yes, indeed. That gets me going. It probably gets you going

Ah, the other thing that stands out to me right away, the front facing camera, tiny now

It's got that Infinity O situation, tiny little cutout, whereas the previous version fold had the full out notch on the right hand side

of the unfolded display. Before I fold this, I just want to, I want to give you a look around here. So

this is the glass back version of the Mystic Bronze. It's not the plastic one, I don't believe

And we have our fingerprint scanner over here on the right hand side. Volume rocker is up above

their speaker units speakers on the previous one really were a surprise they were impressive to me

i was curious how they'd be implemented but you actually have speakers on both sides so when

you're holding in the landscape view you're getting an a stereo like experience with the audio

you have your usb type c connector in this area over here and then the sim card tray is over on

this side. And right away, I can tell we have a much different hinge makeup. It's kind of pushing

up against the center of the display to alleviate some of the crease and presumably provide some

structural integrity. The hinge is just so different on this model. And because of that

that it can close now at almost any angle. Look at this

So it will freeze at any angle you might want it at And this is in contrast to the previous model which would slap shut far sooner than this one does However in the closed mode you do have a satisfying kind of

click to it, as you can see here, when it goes into the close. And then on the front of the

device, this is where things get magical because, of course, on the previous model, the front display

a little underwhelming the shrunken front display. You put up with it

It's the cutting edge. It's the new phone. But this one gives you a real 2020 smartphone experience

even when the device is closed. So I'm gonna go ahead and boot this up

See if we have any power here. And I'm just gonna set that to the side for a quick moment

Also inside the package, we have our power brick, super fast charging indicator on there

By the way, this device has a 4500 milliamp hour battery, Type-C connector on there

and this is likely a 15 watt fast charger. This is your USB-C to C cable also included in the package

So that sort of rounds out the device. And this, like to me, this is the key

We have a real display top to bottom. No, it's not the most aggressive screen to body ratio

If you were judging the phone just based on the front of the device, but it is a huge improvement over the previous version

which had a super slim display, which was kind of a secondary thing

and in using that device on a daily basis, I would often just go ahead and flip it open

for absolutely everything that I would do because that front display for me

was just a little too small. This time around, I think the quick

kind of smartphone functionality, you will use the external display, and then when it gets into the media consumption

we're doing more comprehensive work, then you pop into the whole deal. This hinge on the old model

that's what I have here, is crunchy. It has a kind of a crunchiness to it

and then a pop at the very end and then a slap at the end over here

Now, at the time, I was a bit, I was kind of nervous about it

I was like, how durable is that gonna be? Now, I didn't have any issues with mine

but of course, the issues were out there. this guy over here the new model there's no crunch the whole thing is smooth and they talked

in the event they've got these brushes in there cleaning the thing out it's incredible how

different this feels it's such an improvement my goodness it feels polished now okay all right

i'll give it to you samsung i'll give it to you on that it doesn't have to snap shut or be in one

angle or another you can have this variety of angles here as you can see because it is a smooth

you know what this reminds me of on cars you can get a different type of joint a different type of

hinge on a car door if you remember on a on the panamera when you open the door you can stop it

at any point it's a superior hinge mechanism as opposed to a car door that wants to swing shut or

open and can't stop in between. This is exactly like that, where at any point along the way

there's enough friction there. Now, I don't know what that exactly looks like on the inside. It's

very interesting from an engineering perspective to know what's necessary to achieve that

But it gives you tremendously more confidence when using it, not feeling that kind of grind

or that resistance to sort of hold a position. This is what I remember and this is what I miss

from having used the Galaxy Fold, the original model, as the daily phone is typing

I know it sounds crazy, but text input with the split keyboard on the Fold device

is just a very, it's a very pleasant experience. There's no cramping

You feel like you could input some tremendous amounts of text and the balance of this device, it feels

there's a comfort to it. You know what's crazy about this too? I just received this device

I recently, I switched over to this device. I just switched over to the new Note, to the ultra model

And I can't wait to get my SIM card out of there because this thing's sitting here now

Tough life is a tough gig. No, that's all right. I think I'll survive

There are some adjustments, some improvements that have been made to the multitasking

the way the software deals with the fact that you have such a large smartphone when it's unfolded

For the unlock options, you have face recognition, fingerprints, pattern, pin, password

I'll go ahead with the fingerprint for now, though on the daily when I use this

I'll probably enable the face unlock as well. Now, the fingerprint, it's a bit different

Obviously, as you know, it's over here on the side as opposed to in display. So you're just going to tap away

I don't mind this. I'm fine with the side mounted. I'm one of these guys when it comes to the fingerprint, it could be on the back, it could be on the side

For this device, it obviously makes a lot of sense on the side, or it can be inside the display, and I'm okay with that too

But the key with this one is you need an unlock system that's going to work when closed or when opened

So you slot it into the side and you're good to go. Alright here we go We booted up Let get that screen brightness going real quick Actually let jump into the settings and see what we got for options on the display Of course we have light dark mode full brightness

I'll turn off adaptive for the purpose of this video. We have the motion smoothness now 120 hertz

You have the standard option just like on the Note series. If you wanna improve battery life

you can go down, back down to 60 hertz. Of course I would never do such a thing

on a phone like this. I will leave it in the adaptive 120 hertz

I also was just talking recently about how I've become, I've become happier over the years

with what Samsung's doing with their UI compared to the way that it was in the old days

I recently stuck the SIM card into the Note series and I just tweeted out this morning

how much I like Samsung Pay because I think it's the superior option

works on even those older machines where the Google Pay might not always work for me at least

So there are some Samsung advantages out there. It'll make the transition from the Note

which I just switched to. It'll make the transition okay. You have some other screen mode stuff

for the way you want it to portray the colors. You can see it's in the vivid mode

I'm gonna change the screen timeout as well. The key here, when we pull in from the side

this menu is gonna be something you're gonna use frequently on a device like this

cause it will let you set up pairs of apps. Because when you're unfolded

You really have, I mean, you have a layout and a scale that's capable of multitasking in a way that a regular smartphone just is not

So if I wanted to launch into YouTube and a web browser, it's really that easy, as you can see here

And I'm not giving up that much. I could just be over here

I could be browsing some news over here. I could just pop into The Verge

And then I could have, you know how you are in the home feed when you're on the YouTube

You're scrolling through. So you might even have the video going, you might even be looking at what you're going to watch next

You might even, you know how the people sometimes like to jump into the comments real quick over here

Read the comments, watch the video, then you're reading the news, but of course it could be more

You can have your messenger over here so you're going back and forth with the texting or the slack

whatever it is you use for your messaging. You could have the video conferencing going and then you can hit this button in the center here

and actually do a quick flip on the two, and look how seamless that is

You can flip it this way. Look at that, top and bottom. So I got the big video playing

I'm learning how to make, what is it, the brownies? I don't even know, is it a chocolate cake

I'm just fired up as you can tell. I'm doing many things at once

because I got the new Fold, the Fold 2. They fixed it all. Well, that's what they say

Time will tell. But you can see that I'm amplified over here

Now you can also go in here and save this pair. this could be any pair of apps

so that when you pull out from the side, it's gonna sit there as an option. If I wanna add the messages in there like this

and then pull over from here, and then grab YouTube with the messages

I can pull this into a pop-up view, I can pull it all the way over to the side

all the way over to this side, so how about we do that? How about now it's YouTube and your messages

This, I don't have any messages in here right now, but you can tell how this would operate

and it doesn't even stop there. If I want to get crazy and add a calculator in here, now I got the messages, the calculator

because I'm doing the map as you would be if you needed to. So it's the homework, the messaging, and the YouTube all happening at once

And of course, at any moment in time, I could go in there and just maximize that

I could go in there and flip things around completely. I mean, it's really an interesting thing to think about

how all the different ways in which you could take advantage of this extra real estate and then

at the same time how you could flip into phone mode and essentially have your similar phone

experience look at this one-handed functionality narrow enough that in my grip i can pretty much

reach everywhere i mean this was probably my most major criticism of the original version was that i

was opening it for everything and I was okay with that. I was sitting there saying, well, yeah, I'm

opening it for everything, but once I get there, man, it's an experience you can't get on other

smartphones. So I could deal with it, but now the compromise is far less. It's still a little bulkier

It's still a little heavier than a traditional or typical phone. Even if we compare to this Note

series, it's heavier than that, but the payoff, once you hit the couch, once you have an extra

moment to enjoy some content and you're here, that's a big move. So alright let's go back

to YouTube and let's check the multimedia on this. Let's go ahead and check a Lulater

video and just see how the audio sounds, see how the video looks when we boost up the scale

of it. So we have a recent Lulater video over here. And as you can see, this is really where

where things start to shine. I'm gonna go all the way up to 1440p

and there's been an argument on screen resolution for smartphones at which point are there diminishing returns

because of the scale of smartphones. But once you get into tablet territory

which is kind of where I would put this when you in the unfolded setting here and now you can begin to appreciate the 1440p

now let's go ahead and just boost up the audio real quick we're pretty close i think we we like

to think of ourselves as you know now i will hold it actually this way beautiful so that your speaker

grills your hands actually fit in you see the way they thought about it your hands fit in below that

Anyway, they got brains. Those pigs got brains. And they have complex brains like we do

And so they started their trials. You're talking about the Neuralink stuff

Oh, man. This just makes me realize it makes me miss the fold. The original fold

Because the thing about this gig, the thing about this job, you're switching phones so much

It's hard to even keep it together. What do I like the most? What do I enjoy the most? What really gets me going after a decade of doing this

A decade. That's right. and sometimes you forget what your experiences were like as you flip between phones after that

one and this it's just bringing it all back for me it's becoming clear that this is the type of

experience that can be a lot of fun and to be honest with you even though as nice as that full

screen thing is this mode right here when you're just playing the video up top and then jumping

into your next video or the comments over here. And then the video on the top

is basically the size of a smartphone. Tremendous experience. Well, I don't need to tell you

The audio sounds good as well, by the way. Now, I do want to jump into the camera real quick

Now, something really cool here is you actually have like a half-folded mode now

where the device knows if you're in a sort of partial fold

And there's new functionality throughout apps to take advantage of that. Like in this case, if I go ahead and snap a quick photo

of my note series here, like this, and then go ahead and do a half fold

you see the recent photo over there because you might wanna quickly check up on it

And the other thing you can do with this off button here is you actually can put the cover screen onto the preview

Look at it. So they're starting to think about ways in which

they can really utilize this unusual and this unique form factor. Now as far as camera performance is concerned

we have the usual suspects, including the standard focal length. We have the 2x zoom

so nothing super crazy in the zoom area, at least in the optical world

and then the .5x wide. So we have a few options here to choose from

Very vibrant and saturated, sort of what Samsung is known for. So we can just toggle through probably the standard frame

here, the most impressive of the bunch. But you have the versatility of the ultra wide

and a little bit of zoom, which should be suitable for most people

Now of course, you may want to toggle that selfie camera as well

in which case we can do the little beard here. And it does have the double setting on it as well

for the group shot, which I'll set it to that by default

In three, two, one. Kablamo. And yes, we successfully have identified

individual beard hairs as you'd expect. And this, even this preview window

you start to recognize the advantage of having so much screen when you go in there

even to yze whether it's a photo, Maybe it's Google Maps that you're just zooming in upon

It's a whole different kind of experience from a typical smartphone because the scale is just so much more significant

And then if you go to the partial close or to the full close

you can carry on your activities over here on this particular display

You can use your camera from within this display. Same thing, I might want a single-handed selfie

in which case it's a blammo, like so, and it's just a regular smartphone

from this standpoint. I go back into the camera and maybe I wanna take

not a selfie at all, but I just wanna use my camera like this, maybe this is a more convenient hold for me

There's my standard focal length, there's my wide. It's all just better thought out than the previous version

and kind of, well, I mean, it's more sophisticated. It's the next model

You would expect them to go in there and learn a bunch from the original and fix some of the things from the original

I believe they've done this. It feels sleeker, smoother. It feels more like a finished product

It's still going to be a premium device with a premium price tag

We need to remember that. But I'm glad they're still working on it

I'm glad devices like this exist to kind of reinvigorate my perspective on tech and give me a place to put my SIM card that is different from the vast landscape of slabs that exist out there in 2020

That's been an unboxing video. That is the new Z Fold 2