Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 Real-World Test (Camera Comparison, Battery Test, & Vlog) By TheUnlockr

Morning another day, another verbal test today we're doing it on the Foley phone, the Samsung Galaxy z, fold 3. If you're not familiar, I'm going to go throughout my normal day using this phone, my sim card's, even in it, we're going to take some photos on it and some of its competitors. So you guys can check that out on the screen, also checking on the battery and talk about some of the features that I like and don't like, but first things first. Thank you. Coffee check, also avocado toast check today we're supposed to rain horribly all day, but right now we have a tiny bit of sunshine, which I don't trust. I think it's going to rain in a little, but because of that, we're not going to go anywhere today for this video we're just going to kind of bop around my own hood called Williamsburg in Brooklyn and our first stop for that.

Ava toast and coffee is a place called shop. Now it used to be called sweatshop and at some point during cove it just became shop. I think somebody realized that naming your business sweatshop might not be the most PC thing regardless it's a great little Australian café, that's a few blocks from my house and uh like most of the Australian coffee shops in this hood. There are a lot of them. They make a good latte.

Now, though, let's talk about this phone, this is the third iteration of the z fold, lineup appropriately named the Samsung Galaxy z fold three, I don't like the z flip free that I just did a video on here, which you can check out the link below that folds like an old-school, folding phone, and it's more about like style. This model is best described as like a tablet that can fold up and fit in your pocket, and it's all about productivity. Now, at first glance, you'd probably have a hard time telling the difference between the fold two and fold three, except for the camera layout on the back, even though they are the same cameras we'll talk more about that later. But there are some important differences. Actually, we have the same size screen on the outside and inside, but the inside screen is now a new 120 hertz panel, instead of the 60 hertz, that it was on the last model, so things like scrolling and gaming or smoother, and it can also drop the refresh rate down much lower for things that aren't moving like a static image, for example, to try and save power, and it does that automatically on the fly.

If you want more info on how that works, it's called LPO, and I did a video on that. My decoder series, which is the explainer series here on the channel, that I'll link below now, it's also using what Samsung calls an conquered OLED panel. Part of the change here is that normally there is a polarizing layer between the panel and the ultra-thin glass Samsung calls UTG top layer and that helps stop reflections on the screen. But with this new display, it's built into the OLED panel underneath which apparently uses 25 less power and is 29 brighter all according to Samsung as usual, we'll check the battery as we go, but I can at least confirm right now that the brightness on both displays definitely brighter now. Besides, the displays Samsung is also trying to get rid of the stigma that foldable are fragile by beefing things up a little.

That inside display, for example, has a new, stronger plastic protective layer on the display, which I can't confirm that, after using it for over a week, I don't see any scratches on it. My fingernail's not scratching it. Basically, it's a pet layer instead of PTU, which is just a more stretchy like flexible plastic, essentially, and the outside display is using gorilla glass victim, which, according to corning, who makes if it's 50 stronger than the gorilla glass 6 on the last model, and we now have a newer aluminum hinge that Samsung calls armor aluminum, and it's apparently 10 stronger than before, is thinner and lighter, as is the entire device. Now, there's a slightly larger gap when it's closed, but that's probably because the way the hinge closes and honestly just doesn't bother me- I have to say the phone it just it feels more like refined. I don't know how to put that it's hard for me to explain, but because it's a little thinner, it's a little lighter.

I don't know it just feels better when you're holding the two of them side by side, or you go from one directly to the other. You can definitely tell it's subtle, but you can tell something else: Samsung did to again try to get rid of the stigma of you know. Fragile foldable is this model is now IPA rated, so it has no dust rating, that's what the x is for, but it is rated for being said dunked under one and a half meters of water for about 30 minutes, which I have a feeling based on how the sky looks right. Now we might get to test out later and now before we leave this café. Let's talk about today's sponsor the emerging tech brew newsletter, starting with the same people that originally created the morning brew daily business newsletter that has over 3 million subscribers.

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It's one stop from here into the city as we call it, but if you wanted to walk or bike over or even take a car over to Manhattan, this is the bridge you would take. Now it is one of the four toll-free car bridges that connect Manhattan island to Long Island, which is where Brooklyn and queens are. It was completed in 1903 and at the time it was the longest suspension bridge span in the world, regardless to me, it and probably the Brooklyn Bridge, are kind of the prettiest bridges connecting to Manhattan. Okay. Now, while talking about the display of this device, there is one other thing that Samsung is touting, that we need to talk about and that's the under display camera now.

The idea is that this gives you back a little of your screen real estate by removing the punch hole from the inside display. Essentially, there are a limited number of pixels that work for the display over the camera whole, and then the camera uses software to remove them from its vision, and it does sort of work. If I show you a white screen or say this text, you can see what I'm talking about. You can actually kind of see the limited number of pixels working now it does help a little and also because of the Samsung had to change the camera sensor. That was there to one- that's just well, just not as good at photos, at least as the old one.

Now Samsung did point out to us when we mentioned this, that they have the data to know that that inside camera is not really used for photos very often, which does make sense like that. That's the whole like holding up a tablet and taking photos' thing you're doing that with selfies, it's a little weird, so I could. I could understand that, and they said that usually it's used for video calling- which I also get, and I'll explain why a bit later- and here is what video looks like and sounds like on the full three and also on the full two anyone walking by right now very confused as to what I'm doing, holding up essentially two tablets and talking to them by myself now either way I do give Samsung credit for at least trying something different and new. Yes, I also understand that other manufacturers have already done this before, but for Samsung to do it, it's a bit more of a risk for them and, as with anything that apple or Samsung do at least them putting this in this device means that it might push the industry to use this technology more and hopefully improve upon here comes the sun, shower weather doesn't know what it wants to do today, really doesn't so. This is kind of like the big park in my neighborhood.

It's called McParlan park now when it was first created around the same time as the fridge. It was called Williamsburg park, and then it became green point park, which is the neighborhood just north of here that, like it's kind of sitting in between Williamsburg and green point, green point's, also where my studio is with Mr mobile, Michael fisher and Jaime Rivera from pocket now by the way. But then it became McParlan park named for a New York senator from around that early 1900 time, but real quick while we're here. Let's talk about the folding part of this folding phone. Now, honestly, I use the inside display most of the time, maybe like three quarters of the time while like the outside display, is way more useful than the fold one was, and it is basically the size of a normal phone screen.

I find that I only really use it if I'm not going to be spending a lot of time in it, I'll use it as I'm walking, use it in them like in a rush, or I just don't feel like opening the phone, but most of the time again, three quarters of time. I'm opening the phone to do things. One of the things that I do have an issue with on that outside display is when I'm trying to type for some reason. I just I'm much worse to typing on the outside display than I am at the inside display, and I think that's something to do with the fact that the screen has just a weird aspect ratio. It's very skinny, and so I end up just kind of tapping the wrong buttons a lot more often than I do on the giant screen, even with like a huge full-sized board keyboard.

But maybe that's just me that larger screen is good for all sorts of content. Movies are well they're, only a little bigger than they are on like a normal phone, because you have to keep in mind. The display is almost a square aspect ratio, so a 16 by nine aspect- ratio, video on it. Well, there's just a decent amount of black bars at the top and the bottom. It's almost the same size as like a normal screen watching that same video, but it's a little bigger, which is nice.

Of course, zooming in to fill the screen with the content is pretty comical on this phone. Just you just won't. Do it now. Games, on the other hand, generally do use the entire screen, because obviously they're computer generated, and they can just make more content, fill the different aspects in the same way that you kind of would, with a monitor, like an ultra-wide versus a 16x9 versus a 16x10, monitor, et cetera, et cetera and the largest plate is actually helped in that scenario, because it does just kind of let you see more of the game while you're playing as far as just everyday content like Google Chrome and like my tasks and all that other stuff like messaging, there's something. I really like about the fact that a lot of the times the large display will even invoke the like tablet.

UI, so you'll get those two double panes, as opposed to just having the one really large, like stretched, paint and Samsung does have in the settings where you can enable one or the other. In case you don't like that, you can turn it back to the like stretched format. Instead, I even notice that, like some apps, don't do it when you're using it vertically, but as soon as you turn it horizontally. It's like just enough pixels that the app goes. Oh, this is a tablet, and then it changes its display regardless.

It does feel like it's adding something on top of a phone and not just being a large phone screen to me, and I kind of like that. The one thing I could see happening in the future, which I would really like is if the display gets a little bigger, and they let us use decks on the display, like they did with the s7 tablet. It was honestly one of the first times that I found decks terribly useful because the idea of carrying like a separate, monitor around or like using on a TV somewhere carrying a monitor around you might as well carry the laptop because it's going to be about the same size but having the UI on this larger screen just kind of turn into a more computer-like UI. I found at least on that s7 way more useful. I could see how that might come to this, and then you know very small Bluetooth, like folding keyboard and a little mouse, or something we're not quite there yet, but maybe now the folding screen, just like with the flip 3, is useful in being a built-in stand for the device, that's kind of just always with you, I mean you can prop the phone up, either vertically or horizontally and using that front-facing camera.

If you put your hand up like your palm and show that to the camera, it will then start a timer and take a photo. You can also kind of use it as a tripod to just set up video shots that you might want. Also watching content on it as its own little stand that you don't have to like prop it up against something. Even for video calls in those specific scenarios where I would like a stand- and I don't have one with me- or I just didn't think- to bring one it's kind of nice. They also have a labs feature which is like their experimental features that force the apps to move up to one half of the screen as if they have their own flex mode panel.

Normally developers have to create that Google Duo, for example, has its own flex mode panel, but most apps do not. So this is a neat way of kind of forcing the app to move up to that top screen. So you can then use the device as a stand, and it works for pretty much all the apps I've tried it with and while Samsung puts their own little like flex panel at the bottom, it's just not terribly useful, but it's not the point. The point is just to force that app up to the top half of the screen, which is useful all right. Let's get some dinner, so I've been wanting to go to this taco truck.

It has like tacos that are famously like dipped in a consummate like a soup, but not tonight, not tonight, instead we're here tonight. This is called pomp and circumstance, and actually it opened right before Ovid and I've been wanting to go here for a long time. The name pomp and circumstance to me kind of like invokes like it's hoity-toity. It's like really fancy, but the owners of this place meant the name in the way that every time you go out to eat it should be an event which I kind of like while we're here we talk about anything else. We need to talk about the fact that well, it is 8:30 p.

m, and I'm at 7- and here is my screen on time on my usage for anyone- who's curious about that. But I will say: there's something curious about this. Google Play Services has been running in the background and eating up a lot of power. So take this usage with a grain of salt. Here is usage from another day, so you just have a different day to compare to that.

It's also probably more of a normal day and not a real test day when I'm using the phone as much as I am today. Overall, the battery life is okay, it's not as bad as the z-flip 3, which is not great, but it's just okay. I kind of wish it had a little more battery to last me through a full day, but if you're using it a lot like, I am as a power user, you might want to carry a battery back around, which speaking of I happen, to have brought so, let's charge this thing up, so we can keep testing it and while it's charging, let's talk about the one huge feature that everyone was kind of hoping this phone would get, and it finally did so. There are actually two s pens. There is an s pen fold and an s pen pro the fold pen is the only one that exists right now and the pros coming later, but the pro is larger, and it has Bluetooth.

So it can use air commands and remote shutter kind of like the s pens on note that we're used to, whereas this fold pen is much smaller and while it has the ability to like hover, there is no remote or air commands. The other interesting difference is frequencies. The fold s pen only works on the fold three, whereas the pro s pen will work on the fold three and note devices, so what they did was they limited the frequencies for the fold. They basically created a new frequency to use for that. That's different from the note ones.

That way. No one used an old note pen on the new z-fold three. They only could use one of the new ones and that's because the new s, pens, both the pro and the fold edition- have retractable tips which the old ones don't and that's to further protect the inside display from accidentally pushing too hard and scratching the screen. So really it was kind of a safety measure. For that now one thing I like about the fold pen and honestly: it's probably the one I would get because I don't need the crazy big pen is that there is a case from Samsung that will actually hold the pen since there isn't a slot on the phone itself.

Unfortunately, I like the idea, but I don't really like the case it just has this floppy front that doesn't have like a magnet to keep it there or attach any way to the front screen it just kind of like hangs. It makes it harder for me to take photos which is kind of annoying. I understand why it is this way, because the hinge moving means that you can't have a solid case, but whatever, maybe that's just me personally, I'll- probably wait for a third party to come out with, hopefully a better one, because to me having an s. Pen is not as useful if you don't have a place to put the pen- and I'm pretty sure like note users would agree with that. Regardless of the writing, experience with the pen is great.

Writing on the inside screen feels fine. It doesn't scare me like I thought it might maybe and since this device did kill the note series as a lot of us suspected and actually kind of predicted that it would. I do think that this s pen will feel similar minus not having a place to put it to any note. Okay, let's go take some night shots and night video to test that out and maybe stop at one more place. Oh, whoa excellent- and this is a bar called arcade as in bar and arcade, and it's a bar that my friends and I like to come to have a few beers and play some nostalgic video games.

But while we're here, it's probably a good place to talk about and test out the cameras on this phone. Now I like most of you, are probably at least a little disappointed that the cameras on the phone are the same, at least according to the spec sheet. As the last one. It would have just been nice to see the s21 ultra cameras somehow in this device to like to see the upgrade continue, but I know why they didn't have this generation of foldable from Samsung was all about getting the stigma of foldable out of people's heads. So the fact they are more fragile, which is why we have the better screen the hinge ipx8 rating and the fact they are viewed as expensive.

The z-flip 3 came down 400 in this generation and actually added a decent amount of features, but also the cameras on that were the same. In the case of the fold 3, we came down 200 from the last generation z, fold, two, and I'm sure keeping the camera hardware. The same was a big part in allowing them to do that. So, even though I'm not terribly excited about it, I get it. It makes total sense and honestly, while the cameras aren't as crazy good as some others out, there they're definitely still good cameras.

Okay, calling in a night pick the phone, as I mentioned before this and the z flip 3- are not big spec bumps, but are more of like a refinement of the devices that came before them. The flip 3, with its better cover, display and design and much larger price drop compared to the flip, 2 wins my award that I just made up right now of most improved product from Samsung's unpacked event for sure and while to me, the s21 ultra, which I actually really like, is a better bet here for battery life and cameras. The fold three is still an improvement over the full two in a lot of ways that I think, helps someone who has been waiting to try a foldable device, but maybe was a bit hesitant to justify doing so. The question is: if you are a person that wants to try a foldable if this new, still relatively higher than a normal phone price, is low enough to push you over the edge to try. It shouts out again to emerging tech brew for sponsoring this video sign up for their free newsletter in the description below.

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