Best Galaxy Z Flip features to try right away By CNET

This is the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone and here are eight things. You have to try right away. Okay, so I'm so excited about this phone, and so some of the features I'm going to tell you are exclusive to the Galaxy Z flip, like flex display others are Android 10 settings you can change to make it easier to use one-handed so listed up right in on the side of the galaxy. Z flip is a fingerprint reader, and you can actually turn this into a capacitive touch scroll wheel to enable this we're going to go into settings and scroll down to advanced features and from there we've scrolled down to motions and gestures, and we're gonna look for finger sensor, gestures and turn that on, and now I can use the side of this as a scroll wheel on the front of the Galaxy Z flip when it's close is a very tiny 1.1-inch screen which shows that if occasions, but you could also use it as a viewfinder for your selfie camera. So if I double tap the power button on the side, it brings up the front cameras and I can take selfies of my friends and if you hadn't noticed when you raise your palm to the camera, it triggers a self-timer here. So among the features besides taking selfies, you could do on this display.

You can also see the date and time you can also see any notifications you have coming through, and you can even answer calls from this tiny little screen. One of the neat features on this phone is, you could actually put it into a 90 degree position, and this is called flex mode now. Samsung has optimized a handful app to take advantage of this unique position. So, for example, if I'm on YouTube I can see the video on the top half and scroll through comments on the bottom, if I'm in the gallery, app I could swipe through my photos on the bottom and see the photos move on the top. Another cool use for flex display is using it for Google Duo calls, so I can take and receive them.

It's kinda like having my own private TV studio, hey my friend a bar, hey your bra. The other neat feature about this is I could actually use this to take group selfies. So here I have a group of three of us. One of us is working John, the camera guy, and we're going to hold our hand out like this and trigger that and pose, and now we got a selfie one of the sleeper features of flex mode is the ability to basically use it like a tripod and I can shoot on the rear camera, so I can take a photo. I could take a video or in this case I, could take a hyperlapse of the San Francisco skyline.

Alright. So because this screen is so darn tall, it makes it a wonderful screen to take advantage of split-screen apps to do that. I'm going to go into my app launcher or a recent here and let's say: I want to watch YouTube on the top half I'm gonna push and hold on the YouTube icon. Tell you little mini pops up, and I'm going to open up open, split screen view, and then I'm going to choose what app on the bottom. So let's say, I'm reading, cnet.

com, and now I can be watching a video and I can be scrolling through an article because the screen is so tall to use it better. One-Handed I find setting up. Android gestures help quite a bit. This gets rid of the traditional navigation bar at the bottom, so I'm going to go into settings scroll down to display and then from there I'm going to go to navigation bar and then from there. I can choose between navigation buttons and full screen gestures.

If I swipe up it takes me home if I swipe up and hold it will take me to my reasons here, and I can use swiping left or swipe from the right to go forward or backwards as well. So if you were not at the Samsung unpacked events, you may have missed the fact that when you buy the Gauss easy flip, you actually get four months free of YouTube's premium. So make sure you claim that all you have to do is go into the YouTube app you're going to go on the top right and tap on your account and about halfway down says: get YouTube premium. You tap on that, and here you can see it has that little try for free. You just tap on that and start your trial after four months look out, though, you will be charged and a phone call by closing your phone.

So what's one of my favorite things about this is, if you have a call- and you want to end it- you don't have to tap the end button. In fact, all I have to do is slam. It shut SSS, fine, so hopefully these tips and tricks helped. You get started on the Galaxy Z Flip. If you have any tips or tricks of your own, throw them in the comments.

Also, if you have any questions on how some of these tips and tricks work put those in the comments and until then oh yeah yeah, that's just never going to end, it sounds so good. You don't think this is going to break the phone. Do you do you didn't know you don't all right?.

Source : CNET