1 MONTH with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 - The Ultimate Flex Phone! | The Tech Chap By The Tech Chap

Hey guys, I'm tom, the tech chap, and I've been holding off for making this video for a little while now, because I felt like I needed to spend more time with the fold too and not just rush out a review and that's because I think as much as I do genuinely love this thing I probably wouldn't buy it, even though I actually did, this isn't a review sample. I bought this one myself for the slight eye: watering price of 1800 pounds or 2 000, and really just so. I could give you guys this sort of full, more comprehensive review of it. So if you do appreciate that- and you know you do find this video helpful, then it would be amazing if you could hit that little like and subscribe button below. So I've been using this guy for about a month now, and the first thing I'll say is that it really is a pretty big upgrade over the original fold. Here's one I made earlier and straight away.

You can just see even from a design point of view. It's a lot nicer. The bezels are thinner and almost flush. Now, with the bigger 7.6-inch screen, the ugly plastic corner cutout has been replaced with a single hole, punch camera. The front cover screen is now also much bigger, which was actually my biggest criticism of the first one and just the whole design feels more like a folding note, 20 ultra plus there's the usual camera upgrades and faster hardware on the inside.

So as you would expect, I mean given the price. This is a proper flagship phone with a snapdragon 865, which is actually a rare thing in a Samsung phone here in the UK 12 gigs of ram 256 gigs of storage, a smoother 120hz adaptive main screen. Although the cover screen is still 60, hertz 5g triple camera setup on the back, which is similar to the note 20 ultra, although not quite as good frustratingly, it does pretty much everything you'd need, but I have to say coming from the note 20 ultra, I wouldn't have mind having an s pen with this. It feels like it would have worked quite well anyway. What's it actually like to use well, firstly, this is a big phone.

I mean when it's folded. It's about 17 millimeters thick, and it also weighs 282 grams. So it's a bit of a chunky monkey, but when it's in your pocket, it's the height that you really notice. In fact, the new 6.23-inch cover screen has a 25 by 9 aspect ratio. That's the tallest screen on any phone as far as I'm aware, so even 21 219 movies have letter boxing, and while it is much better than the first fold, it's still incredibly narrow everything looks kind of tiny, and it also means typing can get quite frustrating plus.

It is a bit of a shame that we only get 60 hertz on the cover, but 120 hertz inside you'll also notice that the textures on the screens are actually different because on the front we get gorilla, glass, Vitus, that's uh, their new name for gorilla glass 7. So it's a proper glass screen, whereas on the inside we have this plastic screen protector, that's sort of built into the screen, and you can feel and also see the difference. It just feels kind of gross and plastic like you can actually push it in with your nail. It's just like the original fold and the crease is just as obvious as well, although you do tend to forget about it pretty quickly. I appreciate it probably makes the tablet screen more durable, but going between the two does feel a bit jarring now so far.

For me, I reckon it's about a 50 50 splits between using the cover screen and the main tablet and generally, if I'm replying to a WhatsApp checking emails or using it as I'm on the go I'll use the cover screen and while swiping is easier than typing a message, it's just so narrow and small. It's not ideal, although I must say I do appreciate having the side fingerprint reader, which doubles as the power button. Well, that's kind of creepy, but I think the main issue for me with a fold uh, although I will get to the fun stuff in a minute. I promise is its kind of like a Goldilocks phone, but in a bad way. The front screen is too small, but the tablet screen is too big.

There isn't just that sort of happy medium like a regular phone screen, which is why I think, after this review, I'm probably going to switch back to my note, 20 ultra, but hold up I'm getting ahead of myself, because this genuinely is a lovely phone tablet thing, so you basically have an android tablet in your pocket and with the new 120hz screen, it's fast, noticeably faster than the first fold and overall, just lovely to use firing up a bit of Call of Duty or any game really well, there's just nothing else out there quite like this, and, as I mentioned not having the Enos 990. Chip in here is a nice bonus as well. However, as lovely as the big screen experience is in games, Google Maps looking at photos in the gallery, dare I say even scrolling through tick-tock, it's not perfect. The squarish aspect ratio means you have big black bars when watching videos or movies Instagram still doesn't fill up the whole screen. It is better than before.

On the first fold, it basically just made stories unusable, although actually still on the cover screen stories, do get cut off at the edges, but while it definitely works on here, it all just feels a little unoptimized. It does feel very futuristic, though, when an app seamlessly transitions from the front cover screen to the main tablet. That is very cool. You can have up to three apps at once on the screen, if you're a multitasking pro plus there's wireless deck support, but I'm a bit old-fashioned and tend to just enjoy having one big app open that fills the whole screen now. One thing I love about the fold 2 is that they've added the flex mode features which Samsung first introduced on the galaxy flip.

It does only work in a few apps like the camera, the gallery and YouTube. So you can read and write comments while watching a video which is pretty cool, but it's a shame that more apps don't utilize this, although it does come in handy for the camera. So on my recent trip to this beautiful place called tower head with my wife, Sarah. I was actually able to use the fold in flip mode which not only meant it could act as its own stand, so no tripod required, but I could then line up a photo set, a timer and then jump in the frame. Speaking of Sarah, she absolutely loves the fact that you can actually use the front cover screen as a viewfinder for the camera.

So when I'm taking a photo of her, or she's taking one of me because I'm complaining, I haven't posted anything on Instagram for ages, it's so useful that you can basically see yourself, and then you can make sure your hair's, not weird, or you know the background's way off, and then you can take a good picture instead of the million pictures that I usually have to take, of which none of them are quite right. I know it's kind of shallow, but this is generally one of my favorite features of the fold, and it also means you can take selfies with the good quality rear cameras, including the ultra-wide, which is a big bonus. So let's talk about these cameras and on the front we have a 10 megapixel, selfie camera and then, if we open it up, we have another one at the top right here, which is exactly the same: the same 10 megapixels as the front one. I guess it's another selfie, although generally I don't tend to use that a lot and then on the back. If I switch around, we have a triple 12, megapixel camera setup, with a main ultra-wide and a two times telephoto lens.

The cameras are great, but it's a little disappointing that in every other respect this is Samsung's super high end, all singing all dancing phone. Yet the note 20 ultra does have a slightly better camera setup, with a 108 megapixel main lens and a much higher five times, optical zoom, and up to 50 times space zoom. Most of the time the image quality is neck and neck, though it's really in the zoom, where the fold falls behind, which I don't think is that big of a deal and actually the plus of using the rear cameras for selfies or for you know, Instagram stories is actually more useful to me, but even if it's not the best of the best camera, just viewing the photos back on this screen is glorious. I feel like. Maybe I finally understand why people take photos on their iPads.

I don't like it, but maybe I understand it now. One question I get asked a lot is: do I think this is going to break well? Firstly, 100 000 billion percent put a case on it because well, firstly, it's a 2 000 phones, so come on uh, but also it does actually make it more comfortable to hold because it can get quite slippery, so definitely put a case on it. But to be honest with you, I've been using this for a month. I've not had any issues, and actually, where is it gone? Uh? Wait it's right here, the original fold I've had for a year now also no issues, so I wouldn't really worry about it. Also, surprisingly, I never worried about battery life.

I just about get two full days out of this and I usually have around 40 of my battery left at the end of a normal day and based on how I use this I'm getting about six hours of screen on time, and I think it does help that the 120 hertz screen is adaptive, which is the same as the note 20 ultra so, depending on what you're doing on screen it can actually drop and therefore save battery. So overall, I really do like the idea of the fold, and this is a big refinement over the original, and I think if you do have very deep pockets, and you want a following phone for the first time I actually would recommend buying it. But for me at least as I've mentioned, I think I'd rather go with a note 20 ultra, which I appreciate, isn't really the same thing, and you are losing that wow factor, and you know the fancy flex modes with this. But I think the note is just more practical and also, as I say, a lot cheaper as well. But what do you reckon? Would you be tempted to buy one of these assuming you have a spare two grand in your pocket? Let me know in the comments below if you did enjoy this video make sure you hit that little subscribe button below I've got loads, more videos coming out uh, it is October.

After all, so uh do stay tuned, and I'll see you guys next time right here on the tech chat.

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