So i am a Fold 2 owner and i really do like foldables i think they are the future i'm a
big tablet user and since getting the fold too i really haven't been using my tablets as much and
i prefer to actually do a lot of it just on this with the large screen of course so as you know the
fold 3 is out and to me really it should actually be called the fold 2s and you'll see why in this
particular video but the question that i'm putting forward here is should you upgrade to the fold
three if you are a fold two user and i hope this video will be helpful for some of you out there
i'll give you a bit of a spoiler that there's really only one or two reasons to upgrade as
you'll find out in this well a bit of a comparison in my experiences of using both the fold three and
the fold two here and here we are with the fold two fold three so i would show you the contents
of the box but there's nothing okay there's just a little bit of paperwork in a sim tray tool that is
it and there's no charger included so you can buy that additional 25 watt charging you need to
spend a little bit more on it uh yeah it's the way the future it means the box yes is smaller
but it's all marketing just to make a little bit more money so differences here with the finish so
we've got the glossy gorilla glass victus this is grilled glass victus front and back with the
fold three and i like the matte finish to it it still does pick up fingerprints but it just
feels a little bit better in hand slightly different camera layout but the cameras are
identical they're using the same hardware so the three 12 megapixel sensors for the zoom camera
the main camera and the ultra wide and it does stick out a little bit so slightly thinner a
matte finish to the frame and in hand yeah it does feel a little bit more refined that's what we're
talking about here refinement of the fold two and i really think this is more like a fold two s or a
2s plus not really a three so the side fingerprint reader very fast it is accurate the glass doesn't
bend around the side here anymore and the sim tray just pulled that out because it actually takes
two sims as you can see here now the original model only takes one sum and then you need to use
a virtual sim with it so that is another change there we can see the antenna lines on the side
the frame and the middle used is stronger now the hinge on this when opening it it does feel
a little bit better here okay when you open it up uh but not by much it just
seems a little bit stiffer to me and that could be down to age because my folder here
this one i've been using for quite some time and maybe it's just loosened up a little bit
and i've never had any lines or problems with the screen with this one at all and the spine on it
supposedly stronger here with the fold too so ever so slightly slimmer but really they are the same
there so down the bottom here you can see that they've increased the width of the loudspeaker on
the fold three slightly wider but not by much i'll be giving you a sample of how they sound later on
the two type c ports so usb 3.1 video out support samsung's desktop mode is there too as well
and then the top of both of them you'll see there is an additional little bit of a change here but
not really a lot there's an additional microphone and some extra antenna lines and again slightly
wider there so super similar and then the outer screen change of course it's the same resolution
as before this is all the same the same odd weird cramped aspect ratio i don't really use
the outer screens much so this doesn't really bother me that much it's a slight improvement
120 hertz now versus the 60 but we still got the same problem the typing on it is really quite
cramped and i don't particularly like it too much i get a lot of typos typing on this small
little narrow screen and so there is absolutely no difference here now huawei did a much better job
at this with their mate x2 which for me still is the best foldable you can buy however it doesn't
have google play services and it's super expensive really hard to get hold of but it uses a proper
whip there with like a normal phone so i find that when you've got it and you're typing away
it's just a little bit too narrow now looking at the inner screens now the crease
on both of these has not changed at all it seems the same so it's identical again
really exactly the same here so the 120 hertz 120 hertz same exact size there and i really wish
they had changed this and made this perhaps say an 8-inch screen would have been a little bit better
for me so i do like typing on these keyboards the inner keyboard is a lot better there so are
the bezels different they're not but i've noticed that the plastic lip around the outside right here
is slightly thinner it doesn't stick out as much as what we have on the fold too so that's a minor
very minor difference and you can see here look at the cutouts the inner cut out even though this
does have the brand new under display camera tech you still see it you still notice it right now
and looking at an angle it's more obvious now if i was just to swipe down here and bring up a
notification thing like that things like that with the white background there we can see a bit of a
difference now you see oh hang on yeah yeah okay it's hidden away but it still has the pattern to
it which i'll show you now and you can see what i mean here you can see that checkered pattern over
where the camera is so it's not as good as the second gen ones that we're seeing like with the
axon 30 that hides it there's that checkerboard pattern covering that under display camera this
is another area because of that new under display camera we are taking a bit of a hit on the quality
so with the fold three here we only have 1080p so full hd we get 4k video on the inner camera
if you did actually want to use that or with the fold too so this is why it's a downgrade
there even though right now they look identical exactly the same but i'll give you a sample from
each of them and you'll see the obvious difference in quality first up is the fold 2
so this can record in 4k and it looks sharp it's clear and i think this quality is very
good not bad at all and now i'll move over to the new fold three with that under display camera
now i can see the big drop down and the quality here see how the image looks a lot grainier it's
not just because we've gone from 4k now to 1080p it's because well the camera's looking
through and around those pixels there so that's a difference now of course you can just fold it and
use the outer camera which is a lot better than this inner one or you can flip it right around
and use the rear cameras too which i often do it is quite handy then our software difference so we
got one ui which is version 3.1.1 and it's more of a tablet set up here you can see with the separate
menus and this is more like a phone stretched out on the fold too so this one of course android
11 android 11 one ui 3.1 and android updates they will come through on this eventually of
course and we should be able to get android 12. so there is a difference here with that
and the way you're seeing things now both of them do the same kind of things when you are not
really in menus like that so when you go split screen applications any app or whatever you're
going to run so you can just go on there hold and then you just tap here on the icon you can
then do split screen and you can put it on one side the other you can swap it over and then you
can do the same exact split screen thing so really the software is kind of identical however the fold
three does have one big game changer and that is this the s pen so we've got s pen support now and
because we're not gonna have a new note series i think a lot of people would be interested now
in the fold three so what i did end up getting is what they call the note package they sell you this
as an extra of course 25 watt charger and we've got this new case now the case for the fold 2
i didn't like it's only half a case i mean look at it it's just half a case that you clip on the end
that's the leather one super expensive really overpriced and well you could say the same for
this probably too as well now i do like the way that the pen we've got some spare tips in here
too by the way i like the way that the pin here it just clips into the side so you slot that in
okay and you hear it like clip into place and it's got a nice feel to it there's like a fake
leather that they're using with it and i'll show you how it just fits in there so there's of course
the fold three clips into place and now we've got a little bit of protection for the screen because
my screen here on the fold too this thing i've got the screen protector on it original one now
after owning this for i don't know what it is now like 10 months scratch to bits so that is going to
help out but it gives us a bit of a chunky kind of package now that it is a little bit thicker still
i don't mind this too much it does add that extra bolt of having that pin there so when you hold it
just above the screen you'll see the little dot there the point now i have noticed that this
stylus is very very accurate and we get similar functions and feels exactly the same really as
that of when i've used it on the note devices before or the the same s pen with of course the
tab uh s7 plus so just going into samsung notes here i just wanted to show you uh very quickly
just how fast this is so you're in the pin mode here i have just selected that but look at this
the latency on this pin excellent it is so quick there's no lag so if you needed that pen support
and you wanted to jot down not notes and things with it of course this is probably the main reason
and the only real reason why you should end up getting this so just do a quick little test so
it does have palm rejection once it ticks the slightest there of course and just messy writing
hello world but i really do like how fast this is uh me personally i probably will not actually be
using this s pen a lot and what about our audio so on the left we've got the fold two on the right is
the fold three and i'll play the fold two first followed up by the fold three so we can listen to
see if it's actually any better the speakers in the fold three did they make any changes
okay so there's another downgrade to me and my ears here definitely the fold two speakers sound
clearer and a little bit bitter in a fraction louder why is that that's probably to do with
the fold threes ipx8 ratings so they'd be like a super fine mesh across those speakers to stop
any splashes and water getting in but that's the trade-off we've lost a little bit there
on the loudspeaker quality onto our performance now again i apologize for the banding we're
seeing these screens are so hard to capture for some reason because there's no dc dimming
so ufs 3.1 versus ufs 3.1 storage speeds they are very very similar both have 12 gigabytes of
ram and of course we have the difference in the chipset this one the fold three with the latest
generation snapdragon triple eight so really not much in it okay not amazing a difference
here but i just have to point out as well that i've got 512 gigabytes on this versus 256 okay
so that probably accounts for why this one's faster too there so is this a noticeable
difference in real world use no definitely not you can't see the difference and then a very quick
3d mark test here this is the wildlife benchmark so the snapdragon 865 plus versus the snapdragon
triple eight both have the eight gigabytes of ram same resolution everything so this should be
a really interesting test here to see if the triple eight is that much better
and we are looking at quite a bit more there okay so that's a nice increase there of about
14 hundred points there over the older fold two with the fold three average frame rate here
is 33.9 versus 25.5 one last time i wanted to show you the under display camera of the
fold three which is right here and this one here this is the second gen this is the axon
30 that i've just reviewed recently in the channel and you can barely see the cutout
on this one it is really really good see where is it where's that front facing camera 16 mega
pixel one that's in this that's four megapixels so if zte can do it why can't samsung here well it
seems they're just falling behind when it comes to these under display cameras so when you hold it up
you'll see there that checkered pattern and watch when i do the same here with the exon 30 from
zte that no it's very very hard to see where that under display camera is on this model and
that's the way the fold three should be okay so let's talk a little bit about the cameras
i've taken a few test snaps and i'm honestly not seeing really any difference maybe some slight
software color science differences between the two with the different software versions but they're
using the hardware that is from the fold to so the same three 12 megapixel rear cameras the same
front facing outer one it's just the in the camera as i showed you before that is the downgrade with
the fold three so we know that we've got now the ipx8 rating if you needed that it is now there the
snapdragon triple eight yes uh 3d performance especially for gamers it is faster and you do
notice that and the one that i didn't get for some reason i missed it from the presentation was dual
sim support well proper dual sim support not just the single sim tray that i have with my fold too
the fold three now has support for two nano sims which is great to see that there
battery life now i can talk a little bit about that i'm seeing the same kind of battery life so
around four to five hours maximum on-screen time with the inner screen that's all you're going to
really get these are not phones that are going to have amazing battery life okay because the fold 2
i will sometimes struggle to make it through a full day but most of the time i'll get to the end
of the day and i'm quite a heavy user i will still have around about 20 30 left and for me that's
fine if i can make it through a full day then i'm still happy now the 25 watt charging it's still
not really quick it's still going to take like oh well over an hour to charge and really they
should be coming up now with 65 watt charging or 50 watt charging or something like that
better improved charging tech the disappointments well even though the build quality is refined
slightly better there is the loudspeakers okay so the loudspeakers on the fold three sound slightly
worse to my ears compared to the fold two because of the ipx8 rating because of that waterproofing
splash resistance they had to add there the mesh with those speakers that's probably the reason why
it doesn't sound quite as good it seems to distort a little bit too more at higher volumes and most
people that's not going to be an issue there at all and the other thing which is the downright
of course as mentioned is the inner camera now i find that under the display camera on the fold
3 compared to the axon 30 that i've just been reviewing and what i've already seen from other
people i know with the xiaomi mix 4 with the same kind of tech it does look disappointing it is a
very poor attempt to me that as and hiding the inner camera and i don't think it is worth what
we're getting with the inner camera performance and i know yet you fold it you can use the outer
camera hey what's the big deal it's nitpicking yes yes yes i understand so that question that
i asked at the beginning was should you upgrade if you're fold to owner i would only upgrade for two
reasons and really only one and that is this of course you knew i was going to say that right the
s pen it's all about the s pen that's basically it but it should still be called in my eyes at least
a galaxy fold a zed fold 2s or a 2 plus or the 2ss pen for the s pen the s is perfect right so
that's why you would get it i do like the new case they've got for it the pin works really good on
the screen it's super fast the latency is really low it is accurate and it does make a bit of a
chunky package but when i compare that to putting the leather case half case of the fold two similar
it's just the extra width that we've gathered from that s pen but it's a nice full size the nib is
rubber you can change it over and yeah that is the big key reason to get this is of course that
s pen apart from that the snapdragon 8 performance has increased storage performance maybe slightly
better wireless is really about the same so really it's not worth it okay so you're probably asking
me well then why did you buy it am i an idiot well i possibly I am the reason i went for it
is the trade-in deals okay very very good now i waited and got my full two about two months
after the release of it and i managed to get it for a really good price i paid like 1100 euros
and the trade and offer that i got from samsung with all the coupons and the early bird and the
members option and all that and the samsung care turns out that they give me around 969 euros back
for this phone in its current state used now for about 10 months or so that's actually really good
a really good offer then with the coupons and everything else i managed to get the 512 gigabyte
version here of the fold 3 for only 800 euros more once of course you calculate that trade and
i'm going to get on the fold too so that's not a bad deal if you're new to foldables then of course
you just go in straight away and get the fold three i would not get the fold two because well
you get the slightly better build stronger frame around there outside the ipx rating remember it
still has the wireless charging i think the cameras in this phone and with the fold too
which is exactly the same i think they are decent cameras i know a lot of people rubbish them saying
yeah they're not flagship performance then no s21 ultra sure but it still takes a very
very good photo the main camera has that dual phase detection pixel autofocus which
works really well the ultrawide is still sharp and looks good even though it's 12 megapixels i don't
find it's bad in the zoom camera as well decent enough for portraits so i'm still happy with it
so end up really i think that i will probably yes i will be keeping the fold three here for those
reasons for the trade and only if they didn't have that trade-in deal i can tell you now i
would not have bothered upgrading it all because it simply isn't enough and i say it again it
should actually be called the fold to s i don't think it's enough to be a fold three with those
changes thanks a lot for watching this video hope you did like it and i'll see you in the next one