Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 5G One Month Review! - Still Worth It? By StevealiciousTech

Hey: what's up fellas, I'm another female fan, Steve Alicia's, here back with the Galaxy Z fold, two five g: I've had the retail unit for over a month now, and I've started to see people on Twitter. Second guess themselves saying gee. I wish I had a note 20 ultra a Google Pixel, I'm not so sure about this device anymore. So I wanted to give you my update after a month to review the pros and cons and all that whether I still recommend it we find out today is Steve, malicious. The flip-flopped someone who's going to run with his tail between his legs and go back on his own recommendation today on this edition of stevelicious tech, and we're back as always thank you so much to all the new subscribers up over 2100. As of the taping of this video, if you're loving the tech, if you're loving all the phones go ahead and give that subscribe button, a tussle, it certainly means a lot to me.

I know a lot of people kind of think, gee. Why do you yell? You get like a jump scare? Well, that's part of the immersive stevalicious experience. So you're you're welcome, so now the short answer is this: no, I'm not changing my recommendation. I still like it, I'm not going to flip-flop on this thing and personally everybody is entitled to change their opinion and have a different view after using something for a longer period of time, but the idea that people could go out and tell you to spend two thousand dollars and then all of a sudden a month later saying you know, I don't know about that. Two grand suckers lol, it kind of gets to me a little, because what I said in my other review is, I think how people should have been approaching this, I'm going to demonstrate that with these three phones here I don't think you should go into this thinking, all of a sudden you're going to be a multitasking king, it's like when you people you get like a gym membership and all of a sudden you're going to be jacked balance or Richard Simmons.

I don't know why. Those are the only two fitness people I could possibly think of from 35 years ago, but well maybe it's because you know I always wanted to deal a meal as a kid. You know the card systems because they were color coded, and I thought that was really what we talked right. Multitasking, don't think that you're all of a sudden going to be all of a sudden, multitasking 20 times a day when you really weren't before, because it's not going to happen. I don't think it's the best experience on the fold too.

I think you could just do the same things that you always did but enjoy the extra screen real estate. So let's look at this in terms of cars. Okay, so over on your left, you have a sporty little convertible nice. Looking you got your iPhone 12 Pro in the middle this represented here by a s10 plus you have your luxury, mid-size sedan and then on your right. You have the fold two which I think is represented by a luxury SUV.

They all have the same goal. They're all going to get you there. Their purpose is to drive you somewhere, but it's the experience of getting there that's going to change when you go up to a luxury, SUV or higher up on the road you're going to see more stuff around you, and you're going to have more space inside the vehicle to do some of the things that you want to do that you don't have on a luxury sedan. So if you go in thinking that oh it's going to be just like my s10 plus, but I'm going to be able to multitask and stuff on it and have a similar experience, I think after a month. Yes, you will come out disappointed.

That's why in my week, review and again here, I'm going to urge people if you're looking for this device understand you're getting a different experience, but I don't think it's going to be an experience where you have three apps open at once, and you enjoy that you're. Not I don't think so. I don't you might be someone who does that and enjoys it. I don't think personally from my experience. Furthermore, I have not been one to have multiple apps on and if I do okay, so we open it up.

If I do have two apps, I do it this way. I cut the screen this way, so I can have a nice wide bar of an app here, a nice wide bar of an app. I hate the idea of cutting apps down the middle as a lot of people do and having one side and one's on the other side for apps for scrolling, it's 25 by nine. It cuts it down. It's a narrow experience, it's not a nice experience.

If you do multitask, I recommend doing it the way I the way. I do it in a few times just right across the screen here. If we can get the thing to work right across like that and understand, there are things that you're going to enjoy the full open screen on here that don't involve multitasking that are just better this here. This is the only phone that I would consider, and I have used picture and picture now. That's a different type of multitasking, because if I have a YouTube video up or a twitch stream up, I feel perfectly okay having a full screen, app experience of something else and then having the picture and picture of the other video on the or somewhere else on the display that I think works perfectly and if that's the limit of your multitasking, if you understand that you're just getting a bigger, better full screen experience than you would on another phone.

If you go in thinking that I think you're going to love it, and you're going to keep loving it. But if you go in thinking gee all of a sudden, I'm going to have this app here and this app here and this app here and be four times as productive you're, not you're, just not in my experience, if you are, if you're using it, and you get that that feeling from it great. But I think after a while you'll be disappointed and say gee. This is a hassle. I wish I could just go back to this and just do what I was doing and not have to flip open a screen.

Every time that I want to look at something, so let's talk about some of the things that I think they need to fix and some of the things that may have changed the first thing I did take this out in the sunlight. Now that I have a case on it, and you will notice the screen smudge. The screen smudging is intense and, unlike other phones, where you could just kind of you know, wipe off the screen with a microfiber, and you're good to go because it's glass because of the protector on it. I understand you could take it off. Okay forever.

Those of us who want to be safe. This thing smudges up, and I understand you- can use liquids and stuff like, but if you're outside I mean you want to use your microfiber and go over it, but if the sun hits it or if it's an overcast day prepare for the screen to be a little harder to use with the smudging the hinge this was, I don't want to call it a problem. Maybe it's a design thing where it just breaks in, but much like on the fold, one, the hinge, I'm not saying it still holds in every position, not a problem, not even a second, but people ask yes, it gets a little easier to close it's not quite as tense as it was on. First opening, and you don't get that crunch, you get a little of it, but you don't get the huge crunching noise on opening it that I did the first week or so of having it. So the hinge wears in a little, but not to the point where you feel like you couldn't even put it or use it like that for whatever bizarre reason, but it still holds in every single position, so they did well on the engineering of the hinge.

The other thing is that the only real knock I have on it is that side mounted fingerprint sensor and I kind of get now almost why, on the s10e, they put the fingerprint sensor so high up on the device, because when you go, I mean how do you carry your device when you're just picking it up and carrying it around? For me, it's like this right center mass right across and my thumb always hits the reader and just buzzes, because it gives nine million inaccurate readings and then all of a sudden, it's blocking out all kinds of stuff like that, just a lot of times. I pick it up if there can be some sort of thumb, rejection here added in software, maybe that's possible- maybe not. I think it would be a lot. It would help out quite a bit on the next version, or I don't want to see it. Listen.

I don't want to make a big deal of it because I don't want to see it moved up here because that nothing's more of a pain than having it up here. I like the placement of it. Furthermore, I just don't know if there's a way to kind of lock it out when it's fairly obvious that you're not trying to use the fingerprint sensor. So let's talk about ip68 dust and water resistance. Because of all the comments I got on my prior reviews on the fold two that seemed to be the biggest concern and some of them were a little off the wall.

So let's go into it. People were worried if they could take this device out in the rain. Some people worried about whether they could take this device with them to the gym. Some people were worried, even if they could put it in a damp pocket. So let's talk about some of these scenarios number one.

If you feel that you would be at the gym for some reason sweating over down on the top of your device, so much so that you feel that you're damaging it, then you need to be seeking medical attention and not worrying about whether your phone is ip68 dust and water resistant, because I feel like you're going to have bigger problems, but listen, there's a serious point to be made here. Ip68 dust and water resistance, we had phones prior, I don't want to say we're going to have phones after, but we've had phones before that did not have this standard, and it doesn't mean that they do absolutely nothing to make sure that your phone is protected against water. It just means on this device because of the hinge. It's a little tougher to make it completely watertight, but you'd be surprised. We've been conditioned by marketing to freak out and think that if it doesn't have that certification on it that if the humidity is too high, these things are going to stop working.

It's not the case and you'd. Be surprised, surprised. This is what we used to do back in the day. You'd, be surprised how much a little common sense goes a long way in protecting the phones that we use. Are you standing over a body of water? Don't use your phone? Are you in a situation where you're standing over a toilet or a sink? Don't use your phone? Are you standing on the bank of a river or on a beach? Overlooking the ocean? Don't use your phone? Are you in a middle of a street an awning, perhaps underneath you where it's pouring down like a waterfall? Don't have your phone open you'd, be surprised.

You know 20, plus years, even more than that now of electronic devices, and I've never knock on wood lost one to water damage, because I think we put ourselves in these goofy positions and think that the certification is going to somehow magically get us out of it. No use common sense with your fold too, and you will be fine, and I don't blame the people who are commenting and freaking out saying gee. Can I even put it in my pocket if my pocket jeans pocket is damp? Yes, you can, but do you want water pouring and flowing over it and sitting in a puddle in the middle of the street? No, so let's go with that but, like I said, I don't blame the people who made those comments. You've been conditioned by both reviewers and marketing to think that it's the end of the world. If these devices don't have that certification, but at the end of the day, with all of that, I'm still a huge fan of the full two.

If you're still on the fence, which I absolutely understand, I highly recommend getting. One of them like we said earlier, don't get in them into it, because you think you're going to become this Greek god of multitasking you're, not if you get into it. Thinking like I said before, it's kind of that step up from luxury sedan to luxury SUV, where you're just getting more and going to have perhaps a better experience based on what you're. Looking for the fold, two is definitely the way to go. We could still want improvements for a full three.

We could say hey. This has had some things that really need to technical stuff hinge stuff. That needs to be changed for the next one, but as far as changing the recommendation goes, I think you were getting into it with the wrong mindset if, a month later, you think that this isn't the device for you, and I hope, if you bought one, that you're still feeling confident you're, not wavering. Like some of these people, you're listening to all these videos and gee, I don't know if I should like it anymore, love your purchase, get to know how to use it, get to know how you like it and things that you do that it can do better, and I promise you there's plenty of things that this thing can do better than your slab phone, and you will absolutely enjoy the experience that much more if you've made it. This far like comment subscribe all that fun stuff until next time have that Steve vicious day.

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