the Galaxy Z Fold 5 it comes with some great improvements like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 a
foldable display with 1750 nits of peak brightness and a much better hinge than its predecessor but
in all honesty I'm going to be sending this phone back to Samsung for a refund and I'll tell you
why so the fact that it looks the same as the Z Fold 4 isn't a problem at all in my eyes it's
got a slightly different camera module on the rear and the new hinge which now allows it to
fall completely flat which to be fair is a huge Improvement but it's now the fifth generation
film from Samsung and it's really not my favorite folding phone at all now in all honesty I really
wanted to like this phone and I was excited about receiving it but where we were once limited we've
now got a lot of choice in the foldable Market with even more coming and I have to say there
are plenty of phones that beat the Z Fold 5 for me in terms of the design and the overall experience
now even from the get-go there are simple things that others are doing better than Samsung if I
open up the display it's black and I then get an animation a few seconds later data whereas
if I take something else like this magic vs from honor the animation is much faster just overall
it works better it's great that the Z Fold 5 is now finally folding flat as well but to be fair
it's taking them five releases to achieve this and both the magic vs and the pixel fold I've
got here do the same and they also beat Samsung to it now the main problem I've got with this is the
external display the more used folding phones the more you realize that you're not going to
be unfolding them all of the time because it's just not practical or necessary now the Z Fold
5 external display has a 23.1 by 9 aspect ratio and for me at least it's just far too thin and
a little bit uncomfortable to use now especially when typing I just struggle on such a thin display
and even when using apps like Twitter Facebook or Instagram I feel like everything is just a little
bit too narrow for my liking now the magic vs is okay on the external display and as you can see it
is a little bit wider but in my opinion the pixel fold is by far the best for the external display
usability falling phones are great because you can carry around that larger form factor with
you much easier and I just don't see why Samsung wants to keep making it thinner now that being
said in terms of build quality I'd say that the Z Fold 5 feels the most well built out of these
three and also with the crease in the center of the display it's much better on the Z Fold 5 than
the magic vs and I'd say it's slightly better than the pixel though in terms of bezel sizes it also
beats the vs and of course the pixel fold by a mile and I'd say as a whole the fold five that
looks the most premium we've also got quite an even stiffness on the Z Fold 5 hinge when you're
opening it or closing it whereas both the other foldables feel much stronger at the start than
weaker as the device is fully open there's also been some optimization with the Z Fold 5 to make
apps like Instagram YouTube Twitter and Facebook look much better on a larger display and it is an
improvement but it's not quite as well optimized as the Google pixel fold in terms of upgrades from
the z fold 4 there also aren't any about from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the brighter display we've
got the same cameras the same battery same fast charging and same external display so there's
really no reason to consider the fault 5 if you've already got the four another thing that's a little
underwhelming is the unboxing experience of course they're trying to reduce packaging for
environmental issues but again it's just a box you've got your phone inside the manual and a
USB cable when you're spending so much money on a phone it would just be better to have something a
little bit nicer and more exciting now for me this fold is just no good at all but I don't
want to sound like I'm just completely slagging it off because I'm not the 1750-ness of peak
brightness is impressive and when enabling the extra brightness setting it's noticeably brighter
and is just a much nicer display to look at than other folds and it's definitely going to help on
those sunny days now it's a premium folder which is what Samsung set out to do just their mission
is on making it smaller and more portable which isn't what I personally want from a folding phone
and it's actually enough to stop me using it I do however really like the new taskbar which makes
it easy to open your apps or even open the app list and the matte finish of the phone is good
and not leaving my fingerprints now if you don't mind the thin external display then it's going
to be a great phone for you but for me it's just something that I can't get past and I know it's
just going to frustrate me more and more as time goes on now I actually skipped the fold
forward just because it didn't fall completely flat but the external display is exactly the
same so if it didn't bother you on the four then it's not going to bother you on the 5e though so
it's a bit of a different review from my normal videos but I thought there's no point doing the
camera samples in an in-depth review when the components haven't changed and I thought it
would be better to just give my opinions on why I'm personally not going to be keeping it now of
course others are going to love it as we all have our personal preferences but if there's
anything else you want to know if you've got any questions at all then just ask in the comments
and I'll get back to you as soon as I can but thanks for watching the video if you liked it
smash the thumbs up if you didn't hit the thumbs down twice and I'll see you guys in the next one