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- What up guys, Saf here are on SuperSaf TV
and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 is in the house
and in this video, I'm going to be telling you
why I am now going to be switching to this
from my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
I've also got the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3
so we can do some comparisons
and see what has been improved,
which has tempted me to switch
and if you're interested in the other foldables, the Flip4,
then I've covered that in a separate video
that's going to be linked down in the description.
Now, let's just quickly get the unboxing experience out
the way 'cause it is very quick.
Of course, as last year, we do no longer get
a charger included out of the box, this is something
that you're going to have to get separately,
but as well as the Fold4,
you do get a USB type-C to USB type-C cable,
a quick start guide, as well as a SIM card tool.
Let's now get to the Fold4.
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That's always a little bit more satisfying
when it's a foldable.
Right, and here it is.
Now, at first glance,
it might actually look quite similar to the Fold3
and to be honest, it kind of is.
This is the gray green color,
which is really nice, it's the flagship color.
There's also a phantom black, as well as a beige,
and I just saw on the samsung.com website
that there is a burgundy,
which is a limited edition I'm assuming.
If you do want to get that
or if you want to get one of the other colors,
you can get up to $200 of Samsung credit using
my exclusive link down in the description
so do check that out if you're thinking of getting this.
Bringing in the Fold3, you can see that there are lots
of similarities in the design,
but we do have some key improvements.
So firstly, the Fold4 is now slightly shorter compared
to the Fold3.
It's slightly thinner than the Fold3
and although it maintains the same width,
it does have a wider cover display,
around 2.7 millimeters wider,
and the reason for that is
because we've got much smaller bezels
on the front display compared to what we had on the Fold3.
Now, this gives you a noticeably wider covered display
and if you did watch my Fold3 review,
one of my biggest complaints was
that this display was just a bit too narrow.
It is now quite a bit wider, I would say,
and a lot more usable, I still would've liked it
to be slightly more wider,
but it is great to see that Samsung have taken
that feedback on board and given us a wider cover display
without compromising on the width of the device,
which was pretty compact.
The Fold4 also weighs less compared to the Fold3,
which is good improvement and it still maintains
that IPX8 water resistant rating.
Now, for me, I know I keep saying this,
but it is still mind blowing that we've got
a foldable device that has water resistance.
Now, the X in the X8 means that
this is not completely dust resistant,
but nevertheless, having a foldable with water resistance
and the only foldables, the Fold and Flip series
from Samsung are the only foldables out there
that have a water resistant rating.
Few other changes as well,
although we do have armor aluminum for the frame,
we now have this sort of glossy frame on the Fold4 compared
to the matte finish on the Fold3.
I do prefer the matte finish personally, but hey,
and we have grilling glass victus plus compared
to grilling glass victus so this is
a little bit more durable for the back,
as well as the cover display.
Right, now, let's talk about these displays.
Of course, Samsung is one of the best
when it comes to displays and the Fold4 is no exception.
This is a 120-hertz cover display.
It's great to have 120 hertz in the cover display,
as well as 120 hertz on the main folding display.
Now, this display is absolutely beautiful,
we now have slightly smaller bezels
so it is now around three millimeters wider overall,
dynamic AMOLED 2X technology and it has around
a 1000-nit peak brightness,
which is nice for somebody like me who wears sunglasses.
Now, once again, we have an uninterrupted folding display
so we do not have a punch out.
There is an under display camera.
This is not as visible as the Fold3
so I do notice it less compared to the Fold3.
However, the quality is still not great,
this is just a four-megapixel camera and yes,
I know this camera will mainly be used
for conference calls not selfies and things,
but I would've liked to have seen it improve slightly
at least and for those of you wondering, yes,
there is still a crease.
I'm going to emphasize this once again,
this crease is not that much of a big deal,
especially because when you're typing,
your thumbs don't really feel it
so you don't necessarily kind of put your fingers
across it too much.
However, the Fold4 as the Fold3 did, does support the S-Pen.
So there is the Fold edition S-Pen or the S-Pen Pro.
Now, I've said this before, but it is super impressive
that Samsung engineers have managed to get digitizers
and things on a folding display so you can use the S-Pen
and also have an S-Pen that can retract
so it's not going to damage this folding display.
Now, personally speaking, I love having the option
of an S-Pen when it comes to doodling,
signing documents and things.
The drawbacks, however, are still here
from what we had on the Fold3.
So because of the crease, although when you're drawing,
normally it's fine, when you do go across it,
you do kind of, you know, you do kind of feel it
a little bit.
The best way I can describe this is say you have a book
and you open it up, not that much of a thick book,
but a book and you try and draw across the dip
in the middle of two pages,
it is not going to be the perfect experience,
but then again, the S-Pen is optional,
you don't have to get it and the other thing
with the S-Pen is that you can't enclose it
within the device like you can do on say the S22 Ultra.
This is something that you're going to have to get separately
and if you do want to carry it around with you,
you're going to have to get a case which is going to make
the Fold4 even more bulky than it already is,
it's already quite a thick device.
so just a few things to keep in mind.
Once again, this is a bonus feature,
you don't have to get it if you don't want to.
Right, now, let's talk about the cameras.
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Right, so back to the cameras.
The four megapixel camera as mentioned, isn't great,
however, this is kind of made up for
because of the fact that we do have
a proper selfie camera here on this punch out.
This 10 megapixels takes good selfies,
but as with the Fold3,
you can use dual preview on the Fold4.
This is basically going to allow you to use the cover display
as a previous screen and let you use the refacing cameras
as selfie cameras so you're going to be able
to get really nice selfies, including ultra wide selfies
and let's talk a little bit about these cameras
because they have been improved quite a bit.
Now, the cameras on the Fold3 were largely the same
as the Fold2, but the Fold4 has some big improvements.
These are the same cameras that we've got
on the Samson Galaxy S22 and S22 Plus,
which are very, very good cameras.
Now, these are not going to be as good
as the flagship S22 Ultra,
which also has a larger sensor size
and a periscope zoom camera.
I guess having a periscope zoom camera would make
this thicker so I understand why it's not here,
but back to these cameras,
so we've got a 12-megapixel ultra wide camera,
we have a 50-megapixel primary camera
with a larger sensor size,
which is going to give you 23% brighter images,
and we now have a three times optical zoom camera compared
to the two times that we had on the Fold3.
This can also go up to 30 times for digital zoom
and having used the S22 and the S22 Plus,
I'm confident that these cameras are going to be really good,
maybe even better because of the new ISP,
which is with the new chip set.
Oh, by the way, an ISP is an image signal processor,
sorry, I always missed that.
Anyway, so the Fold4 is powered
by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8plus Gen 1 chip set,
this is the latest flagship chip set.
It also means that this is going to be superior
in terms of performance to the flagship S22 series
and we have 12 gigabytes of RAM for multitasking,
and in my opinion, the Fold4 is
the best multitasking smartphone that you can get,
especially thanks to the software improvements.
So the Fold3 was already a great smartphone
for multitasking, but Samsung have now taken this
a step further with the task bar.
Now, I don't know why anybody didn't think
of this (indistinct) because it's such a great idea
When you're in different apps, you've got shortcuts
to other apps here and you can just very quickly switch
to them just by tapping.
So this is a similar experience like you have
on a desktop PC and it really utilizes this larger display
and whenever you do want to have two apps open
at the same time, you can just tap and hold an icon
and then just drop it on to the side.
You can take this even further
by dropping another window in here
and you can have three windows open at the same time
and if you really want,
you can have a floating window on top of those three windows
and everything is super, super smooth.
Samsung has also closely worked with the likes
of Microsoft to optimize apps for the Folds
and I absolutely love this experience,
this is one of the reasons why I'm going to be switching.
Now, the Fold3 could technically also have a task bar.
Is Samsung going to bring it to the Fold3?
I doubt it.
I think having these features will make the Fold4 stand out
and more of an option to upgrade
so I don't think they're going to be bringing it
to the Fold3 anytime soon anyway.
Right, another thing that you get
with the 8+ Gen 1 chip set is power efficiency.
It's 30% more power efficient compared
to the regular 8 Gen 1
and if you remember my Fold3 review,
the Fold3 had good battery life, but not great.
I mean, it'd get me through the day, but it wouldn't be
at the level of some of the other flagships.
Now, with the 8+ Gen 1,
I am optimistic about battery life,
we have the same size battery as the Fold3,
but because of the optimizations and the new chip,
I'm expecting it to have better battery life,
which I'll be covering in my full review.
You do have up to 25 watt charging
so you can go from zero to 50% in 30 minutes,
that 25 watt charger is not included.
However, wireless charging has been improved.
It was 10 watts on the Fold3,
it is now up to 15 watts on the Fold4.
You still have wireless power share
so you can charge other items on the back of the Fold4.
Right, finally, let's talk about storage and pricing
and why I think that this is worth going for.
So this starts at 256 gigabytes, can go 512
and all the way up to one terabyte
for those of you storage junkies
and for pricing, this does start
around £50 more compared
to what the Fold3 started out.
So it's going to start at £1,650 in the UK
or around $1,800 in the US,
which is the same price as last year.
However, Samsung are giving some crazy pre-order deals.
So right now you can get the 512 gigabyte version
for the price of the 256 gigabyte version
and using my affiliate special link
in the description below,
you can get an additional instant $200 of Samsung credit,
but on top of that, Samsung are giving you crazy prices
to trade in your old smartphones even if you have
a cracked screen and in the UK even
if you have any non-working smartphone,
they're still going to give you £250 off,
which makes this, in my opinion, a great deal.
So to conclude who is the Fold4 four?
Fold4 four.
Anyway, in my opinion, if you are after
the best large folding smartphone,
then this is still the best option,
especially with some of those pre-order deals.
Having said that, this is still not perfect,
I would've liked to have seen further improvements,
I would've liked to have seen
a slightly wider cover display,
which would have given more space
to maybe have an enclosed S-Pen.
If you're on a Fold3, are there enough improvements here
to bring you onto the Fold4 personally?
I think not, I think still stick to the Fold3
for a little bit longer.
If you are on the Fold2, however,
I think this is a great upgrade.
If you're after something smaller, a bit more compact,
but still want that folding experience,
then we have the Flip4, which is a lot more affordable,
and if you're somebody like me who's been using
the S22 Ultra as one of their daily drivers,
then I think this may just make me switch permanently.
However, as mentioned, I am going to be switching to the Fold4,
I'm going to be putting my SIM card in this
and using it on a daily basis
and I'll cover my full experience in my review
that's going to be coming in a few weeks.
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Are you going to be picking it up?
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