Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 Unboxing By Unbox Therapy

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 its 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. Furthermore, 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 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 going to tell you about how they're changing the shape of the future before they show you, the actual device introducing Galaxy Z, fold, 25g 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, 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 removed that first things. First, a little 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 were. There was a lot of press around some 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.

Furthermore, 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 goodness it gets you every time. Doesn't it is 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 in the center of the wireless charger, this new z-fold ii, 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 that's what you do here? Isn't it oh wow? Yes, indeed that gets me going. It probably gets you going up the other thing that stands out to me right away: the front-facing camera tiny. Now it's got that infinity. Oh 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 wanna. 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 there 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 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 crease and presumably provide some structural integrity. The hinge is just so different on this model and because of 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 going to go ahead and boot this up see if we have any power here, and I'm just going to set that to the side for a quick moment. Also inside the package, we have our power.

Brick superfast charging indicator on there. By the way, this device has a 4 500 William 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 or 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 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 going to 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. Furthermore, you can get a different type of joint, a different type of hinge on a car door. If you remember on the Panama, 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, it's 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 full device is just a very uh.

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. Furthermore, I just switch over to the new note to the ultra model, and I'm- 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. Now, that's all right, I think I'll, 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 is 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 all right here.

We go we're booted up. Let's get that screen brightness going real, quick, actually, let's jump into the settings and see what we've 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 want to improve battery life, and can go down back 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. Furthermore, 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 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 going to change the screen timeout as well. The key here when we pull in from the side. This menu is going to be something you're going to use frequently on a device like this, because 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 the web browser, it's really that easy. As you can see here, and I'm not 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 uh.

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. Furthermore, 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 too.

They fixed it all. Well, that's what they say time will tell, but you can. You can see that I'm 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 going to sit there as an option.

If I want to add the messages in their 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 math as you would be if you needed to, and 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 this. 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 all right, let's go back to YouTube and let's check the multimedia on this. Let's go ahead and check uh, LU, later 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 later video over here and, as you can see, this is really where things start to shine. I'm going to 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, when you're 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 like to think of ourselves. As you know now, I will hold it actually, this way, they're beautiful, so that's more intelligent, speaker, grills your hands actually fit in.

You see the way they thought about it, your hands, fitting below that really that's all it took anyway they got brains. Those pigs got brains and uh they're. They have complex brains like we do, and so they started their trials. Talk about the knurling 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 want to quickly check up on it now.

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, at least in the optical world, and then the 0.5 x 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 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 hair, 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 Alamo and yes, we successfully have identified individual beard hairs as you'd expect in this.

Even this preview window, you start to recognize the advantage of having so much screen when you go in their even to analyze 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 blame like so, and it's just a regular smartphone from this standpoint I go back into the camera, and maybe I want to take not a selfie at all, but I just want to 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 things from the original. I believe they've done this.

It feels sleeker smoother. It feels more like a finished product. Furthermore, 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.

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