Galaxy Z Flip Doesn't Suck... YOU DO! By Snazzy Labs

It, just bums me out that other people are talking weird about an otherwise good phone. Just because it's different I guess the question is: is it a flip or a flop? The last smartphone review I did was not too long ago, the iPhone 11 Pro, and before that it was the Motorola motor z from 2016. Well, look a few years ago, I just decided that everyone on tech, YouTube was doing smartphone reviews and most people were doing a better job than me. So I shifted my content strategy to while the shenanigans that you see today, that's not to say, however, that because I daily drive an iPhone that I'm some clueless idiot I mean I, bought and used a note 10 for months, I own, a Pixel 4 XL, a 1 plus 7 Pro and other 2019 Android handsets I am a long time. Android user and truly a fan of weird quirky phones. I mean I owned and reviewed the Dell Streak a massive at the time, 5.3 inch smartphone that came long before the Galaxy Note and the phablet form factor. We all know and use today, not even MHD or Mr.

mobile can claim that it's just that smartphones nowadays, they're good, all of them and well look some might have better battery life than others or take better photos. Some might receive more frequent updates at the end of the day, they're all rectangular they're, all scream glass slabs using a tried-and-true form factor which sorry Apple haters was established by the first iPhone from 2007. But if you go back to the early days of Android before the iPhones design had one out so to speak, and you got all these crazy devices like the 2010 Motorola flip-out, with a 90-degree, spinning keyboard and cursor d-pad, or the Kyocera echo, with this dual screen design and special tablet mode apps. Who could forget the nearly square? Awful-Looking 2012, lg, optimum View a lot, if not all, of these phones kind of sucked, but they dared to be different, and you must disrupt iteration to accelerate innovation. And that's why I'm making a video about this.

The Galaxy Z flip, because it's the first time I've been excited about a smartphone in a long time so excited. In fact, that I went out and paid fourteen hundred of my own dollar a due to get one, but just because I ran out and got one doesn't mean that you, because you should say that money and sign up for hosting her. Today's sponsor is a fast and secure web host perfect for you and everyone. You know, be you an amateur looking to create your first WordPress website or an expert in need of more VPS for a sizable business. Look hosting Ger has something that will fit your needs, learn more with the link below or stay tuned until the end of the video look I'm, not going to waste time with specs, because you've, no doubt heard them ad nauseam in short, well expect.

Last year's flagship specs like the Snapdragon 855 plus last year's camera assembly, eight gigs of memory, 256, gigs of storage, cool the reason I bring these up at all is that well reviews usually cover those things, but I'm not going to because they're basically known variables. The camera, for example, that's basically the same as the galaxy s 10 and while specs aren't identical between this s10 and the flip, the photos sure look like it. Photos are good, but it's no pixel for Noor iPhone, 11 Pro pictures continue to have a little more noise than you'd expect out of the other two and shutter speed frustratingly continues to be just low enough in slightly dimmer situations that photos come out a little, blurry they're, just not quite as sharply not something you would expect out of the iPhone or the pixel. There are a few cool camera tricks like the new single take mode, which allows you to basically record 10-second, clip that the phone will then take automatic stills and create gifts from its fun, if not a little gimmicky, but really the snapdragon, a 55 plus, is while an improvement over the Galaxy S. Tens nonplus processor on paper feels basically identical and lags literally a fair bit behind the new Galaxy S 20 and the snapdragon 865 processor present there with about 20%, lower benchmark numbers.

Battery life is pretty good, since the phone has juice in both halves, bringing the total capacity to 3300 William hours, which is enough to get through the day with medium to heavy use. But it's a far cry from the excellent battery life that I've come to expect from my iPhone 11 Pro. The real bummer is that the phone, only ships with a 15 watt charger and, unlike the galaxy s, 20 brethren, it cannot charge faster than this ruling out.25 watt and 45 watt fast chargers. I was able to charge to about 70 in an hour so which is acceptably similar to the iPhone. But it's hardly cutting-edge.

Luckily, you can charge it wirelessly throughout the day, if you can well get it to stay on a charging pad without slipping off, because this is one of the slipperiest phones. I have ever used, and no camera bump on the charging side means that it's like butter on my fingers. After finishing an entire pan of brownies on a Saturday night, the mono speaker is loud, and it's an improvement over the old mono Samsung phones, but it's just simply no match for the Samsung stereo flagships that we've been seeing the last couple of years call quality was decent with colors reporting that the microphone sounded. Okay, the earpiece did get quite loud, but it does so at the expense of an annoying rattle very irritating. Basically, this phone is a Galaxy S 10.

It does a few things better. It does a few things worse and that's not necessarily bad, because the Galaxy S 10 is a really fantastic phone, but it's also a $750 phone. Does the flips folding gimmick justify the additional $630 cost? Let's talk about it, because that's why this phone is so complicated, I'm, pretty spoiled I got to play with new tech almost every day and I don't mean for this to sound ungrateful and I, something holy freaking, crap being able to literally fold this display in half is mind-bending. It is one of those things that just doesn't feel real, even though it's happening right in front of your eyes and even two weeks later, I still find myself opening it and closing it and open it in closing. It's just staring at it the whole time so freaking cool, a lot of people think that foldable are a gimmick or that they're a solution.

Looking for a problem is that true, no, the display itself is a six point. Seven-inch screen the resolution of 26 36 by 1080, and it's honestly proof that resolution isn't King when it comes to display beacon, that's only a 1080p equivalent, but it's amazingly tall with a 21-point nine by nine aspect ratio. Why than ultra-hot, which is a bit silly when you're viewing video, but it feels right for everything else, without feeling too wide, but also being able to fold up into a cute little square when you're done, this display looks gorgeous, and it's one of the most optically clear screens, I have ever seen primarily because of the thinness of the display assembly. Now let me give an example. Today, I bought one of the new cheap iPads for $250.

It has nice specs. But when you look at the display off axis, you can actually see that there is a fairly substantial air gap between the touch layer where your finger actually is, and the LCD panel itself. That's how all smartphones used to be made a few years ago. Now the top glass digitizer and display are all laminated or bonded together chemically it's more expensive to manufacture, and it makes it basically impossible to repair, which is why smartphone screen replacements cost so much money. Now, a lot of people think that it's the PAL, but it's not because back in the day you rarely ever broke the actual screen.

You just break the cheap cover glass, but look laminated displays the one that we use today do have a lot of benefits. There's a reason we moved away from the old-school style. Not only could devices get thinner but display quality is improved because light can't refract or interfere the colors are more accurate text is sharper, the displays are more visible in the Sun and glare is generally reduced. It just looks like the screen is painted on to the glass rather than sitting below on a layer that you can't quite touch like something on the iPad. The Galaxy Z flip takes this further because it needs to bend.

It can't have the rigid glass that we have on our smartphones. Now, Samsung's phone does use glass, and it does fold how the heck do they do that? Well, they make the glass really really really thin. Everything can fold if it gets thin enough. I mean go, get a 2 by 4 piece of wood from your garage I'll, try and bend. It not going to happen, but if you shave off a little chip from the side, you can get it to bend pretty far before it ends up snapping.

The same principle applies here: to get glass thin enough to bend nearly flat, Samsung and shot, which is the German company that supplies this special glass to Samsung needed to cut the glass thickness down to a mere 30 microns. That is one-third the width of the average human. You know, I shouldn't pull one out, I, don't have any the average human hair. Don't worry, though, we'll get to the whole jury-rigged everything drama in a minute, but with the glass, the touch layer and the plastic material that covers the glass you're, looking at a total thickness of about 120 microns, which is one-quarter the thickness of the average smartphone glass assembly. What I can't really convey on video is the absolute insanity that this display appears to be in real life, screw resolution screw peak brightness of the ways blindingly bright.

It's one of the brightest smartphone screens, I've ever seen screw refresh rate screw all of this crap that people say is important. It is, but you look at this display, and it just doesn't look real even better. Furthermore, it feels even less believable. The touch layer is immediately responsive and I suspect. That's because it's pulling touch input at 120 Hertz, just like the iPhone, even though it's only a 60 Hertz display.

It feels like this screen is glued to my finger in a way that non Apple products have always struggled with the Z. Flip might even exceed the iPhone in this regard, which is a feat to be sure, but look not everything about the display is unicorns and rainbows. The centerfolds crease is not insignificant and, while looking at it head-on without any external light sources, looks pretty good. In fact, you can't really notice it at nearly every other angle. The crease is real, and it is distracting in the galaxy fold.

It's less distracting, I think because the crease is from top to bottom, whereas on the Z flip, it's not only just in your face, because it's right at the center of the display, you look at all the time, but on the fold you don't feel the crease, because there's less side-to-side swiping action in smartphone use then top to bottom on the Z flip. You feel the crease all the time. I wish the Z flip would stop folding I, don't know 165 degrees or so where the display is crease free and stretched at its maximum limits. Unfortunately, while the Z flip has a fancy, but ultimately not very useful feature of moving apps into the top half of the screen, when folded like in Google do or the camera app I mean kind of cute and quirky, but practical, not really. The screen only holds its position well to about 120 degrees and then, after that, the hinge just gives way and the device falls flat with any movement that isn't gentle and that's a shame, because those are the angles where I really would see myself, not extending it all the way, but look the problems.

Unfortunately, now they don't stop there. In exchange for your fancy, folding display, you forfeit water resistance, a feature that I use all the time and, quite frankly, have come to expect on my smartphones, dust resistance is also forfeited and, while I fix its test unit filled to the brim with fine dust I, don't think this is the most realistic of tests and that normal dust, particles and sand, for example, are blocked out quite well by the phone. Keeping the display relatively well secured. I will say, however, that when the screen is folded because of that little air gap, a lot of deaths has the tendency to ingress and build up and just turn into a pile of Grady crap I found myself shirt wiping this phone far more than any other phone in recent years. Now, while the inner display is nice, the 1.1 inch outer display is completely stupid and useless. Viewing notifications is more laborious than just opening the phone and, while being able to take selfies with the superior rear.

Camera is a nice feature. The viewfinder is way too tiny to be useful, and the aspect ratio doesn't match the photo that you're taking so the framing is all wrong. It's about as easy as taking a rear selfie without any screen at all. That's a huge downside in an area where I think the Motor razor is a much better option. Long-Term durability has been a long-term pain point on these devices and I think that the Z flip makes huge improvements in this area.

I will admit that on the first day, I did have a weird squeak show up, but it's since gone away, and I haven't heard it in the last two weeks. So hopefully it doesn't come back, but other than that. Well, not bulletproof. This phone seems more than durable enough for day-to-day long-term use. Yes, even with the plastic screen, look reports of the jerryrigeverything video seemed to me to be a bit exaggerated, now, I'm not trying to justify Samsung's actions here they intentionally mislead consumers.

To believe that the display glass is what you touched. It isn't. There is a polymer layer, plastic sitting, atop the ultra-thin glass that acts as a bodyguard, because, while Samsung says the glass is very durable, scratches or nicks, or any little mire imperfection in such a thin glass layer drastically compromises the integrity of the glass which could result in easy, breakage I think it's just a reality. We're going to have to deal with when considering that glass, a few dozen microns thin, is going to be difficult to keep secure a long term to Samsung's credit, the plastic layer, you actually touch feels shockingly close to glass, and the screen feels rigid at no point did I think that I was pressing too hard on the screen or the slamming it shut would result in a break. But you might wonder as I did well, then, why use glass at all? If that's not what we're actually touching Samsung says that it won't degrade like plastics do over time, but, more importantly, they say that it adds optical clarity, making the display significantly more vibrant and after having seen how fantastic this display is I believe them ought to jury-rig everything's durability tests.

Yes, this display scratches easily. However, the polymer seems to self-heal I put in dents in the display, with my fingernail, just as Zack did, but after a few hours, I had noted that they were no longer. There is the screen softer than glass, yeah I'm sure it is, but that doesn't really matter because the phone is closed when it's not in use and what few abrasives get inside, don't actually do any damage thanks to the air gap. Let me put it this way. The number of scratches on my internal, flexible plastic screen after two weeks are zero.

The scratches on the outside of the phone, where we have normal smartphone glass, are numerous. My main complaint with this phone is not the specifications, because it's fast nor the display, because it's beautiful and honestly not even the price I mean this. Tech is new and cutting edge and in a world where $1500 smartphones are becoming the norm, I don't think that $1400 is an unreasonable ask for something that turns heads. The reactions out of this phone are bananas and I have had more random strangers. Ask me about this phone than any other piece of tech I've used in years.

Perhaps since the first generation Apple Watch, now the issue I have with this phone is the form factor. I, just don't find that much utility phone that I have to open and close and open and close unfold and unfold every time I want to use it and I think that long term, the galaxy folds design is what will end up being king I mean just imagine once things like the front, bezel are sorted out, imagine being able to just pull out your phone use it as you do already, but then to be able to unfold it to the size of a tablet a few times per day. Not all the time. That's my dream and the Z flip is well it's not that it's not my dream, but my girlfriend did aptly point out in passing that it's small square size could go a long way for women with small pockets. So it's not like the Z flip, isn't designed without anyone in mind.

Just not me. Last year, I tweeted that, while a neat product, the galaxy fold was one that nobody in their right mind should actually purchase and the flip. Well, if you look at the spec sheet is the same on paper. The price just doesn't merit the cost premium, but the Galaxy Z flip is not a bad phone. It's actually a very excellent one, one which is astounding, considering that, just six months ago we had our first foldable hit the market to a cataclysmic disaster of a launch with a laundry list of issues so long that you couldn't even numerate them.

This phone by comparison is a miracle and there's something very special about it, which I can't and won't recommend to most people, but if you're on the cutting edge and willing to pay for the tech, I think it's pretty great I'm keeping mine but, more importantly, I am absolutely on the foldable strain. Chew chew. This isn't a solution looking for a problem, but an evolution looking for an audience and that audience is only going to get bigger as things improve, I'm excited about smartphones again for the first time. In a long time, this episode has been sponsored by hosting her the best web hosting at the end of last year, and look I'm a busy guy I created snazzy 2019 dot-com, but it wasn't a problem because this website took maybe 30 minutes to make I, never get it to hosting Ger's excellent. Each panel software and used the setup wizard, which allowed me to register a domain, create a managed WordPress install.

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