hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the Samsung Galaxy Z flip I was
finally able to get my hands on this I looked for it a week or so ago and
couldn't find it I did order one the day it was available but it took a week to
get here for some reason so I thought we'd unbox this I'll talk about the
colors and the design and everything else and if you'd like to jump to any
specific point in the video just look down in the description and you'll see
all of the time codes listed there now this comes in at one thousand three
hundred and eighty dollars in the United States unlocked and it's available in
four different colors but one of those is a little more expensive so this is
the mirror Black Edition then we have mirror purple mirror gold and then we
have a Tom Brown Edition which comes with a watch some different galaxy buds
and costs two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars if you can find one of
those so let's go ahead and open this up
so we'll open the box here and you'll see it says flip now if you've seen the
ones that are mere purple this has a different color to it but the mirror
black everything is black so let's go ahead and open this up and inside here
in the top we have a little box here let's see what's inside it and I already
ripped it so here we have a couple different things so we have our sim card
tool and then we have a quick reference guide we also have a get the most out of
your phone with the Samsung care Terms & Conditions and then also we have this
little case that comes with it so they give you a plastic case to go over it
we'll take a little bit closer look at the case later on now the first thing it
says the future changes shape and meet your Galaxy Z flip so let's go ahead and
remove that and here we have some care instructions do not press the screen or
the front camera lens with a hard or sharp object such as a pen or your
fingernail doing so could result in scratching or puncturing them
it says when folding do not place any objects inside keep it away from water
and dust do not attach adhesive films or stickers to the main screen and
basically keep magnets away from it so here is the phone itself so it's a
little early on and fragile let's set this aside we'll take a look at the
accessories and then we'll come back to the phone in a second so it says galaxy
Z premiere service and you've got some concierge service as well and here we
have a charging adapter so AC to USB a and this one is a 15 watt charge adapter
now you can get a faster charger if you buy that accessory through Samsung but
this also includes wireless charging so you won't necessarily need this at all
now let's see what's inside here looks like we have our little adapter so if
you want to switch from either another Samsung phone or maybe an iPhone or
another Android phone such as a pixel you have a USB c2 USBA adapter for that
and then in here we have some headphones and an adapter so here we have a USB a 2
USBC adapter that comes in the box with it
and then it looks like AKG headphones so you've got some AKG headphones here and
included our different sized ear tips for this and here's your AKG headphones
to USBC so you have all of that included let's set all of this aside and take a
look at the phone so here's the phone itself let's take the outer protective
wrapper off and you can see this is the mere black color and so it's sort of a
glass on the back and it's Gorilla Glass it's Gorilla Glass 6 and it's got an
interesting design it's very tall and like Samsung says this is a little bit
less resilient to things like scratches so you don't want to use your nail on
this display so let's go ahead and fold it and it's got a nice hinge feel to it
so let's close it here and you can look around the outside edge so let's take a
look around the phone and talk about the specs so on the right side of the phone
we have a volume button so it's a volume up and down rocker we have our power
sleep/wake button it's also a fingerprint sensor nothing else on the
right side of the phone on the bottom we have one speaker and a microphone and
then USBC and we don't have dual speakers on this phone you just get the
one on the bottom now on the left side of the phone we have our SIM card tray
so let's go ahead and pop that out and take a look so we just have a single SIM
card tray it does have an internal ECM as well and it has a little waterproof
gasket around this but there's no expandable storage with this phone you
have nothing else on the left side of the phone and you have an extra
microphone at the top of the phone now on the back we have our dual cameras and
you can see this is already picking up fingerprints we have dual cameras on the
back in there 12 megapixel cameras you have one that's an F 1.8 that's a twenty
seven millimeter wide with optical image stabilization and then you also have an
F 2 point 2 that's 12 millimeters and it's an ultra wide the cameras can
record 4k 60 now on the front you have only a 10 megapixel camera which is fine
for selfies and things like that but this is an F 2.4 and can record
in 4k 30 now internally we have a qualcomm snapdragon 855 + 8 gigabytes of
RAM and Adreno 640 GPU and you've got 256 gigabytes of internal storage and
like I mentioned before there's no expandable storage on this phone
now this little display that we have here we'll take a closer look at in a
moment is a 1.1 inch Super AMOLED display that's 112 by 300 now the
battery is split into each half but total they combine to form 3300 milliamp
hours so hopefully this will get us through a day only time will tell
now the display on the front is very tall and I'll talk more about this in a
moment but it's a six point seven inch AMOLED display that has a 1080 by 26:36
resolution with 425 pixels per inch it also supports HDR 10 plus and so
let's go ahead and turn on the phone so we'll hold down the power button there
it turns on and the display is very vibrant looks like any other OLED
display that I've seen before we'll wait for it to boot up here and we'll go
through the setup
so we'll hit let's go so we have to agree to the terms and privacy policy
but we don't have to send diagnostic data you can or you don't have to we'll
go ahead and hit next
so I'll set up my Wi-Fi we'll go ahead and hit next it's gonna look for updates
and I believe there are some updates for this and this is really interesting if I
fold this display it's kind of weird you can see the light the way it hits the
area where it creases a little bit different but this is really interesting
I'm not sure that I'll like a foldable display but I'll use it for a few days
and see what it's like it is definitely different in something interesting to
look at as opposed to seeing the same sort of solid brick all of the time so
now I can copy my apps and data from a different phone so I could do that from
say a pixel or an iPhone or whatever I'd like so for now I'll hit don't copy I'll
come back and do all of this later and I'll get everything set up so now I'm
signed in with Google I'll go ahead and hit next and now we can set up the
fingerprint sensor so you could use face recognition pattern pin password I'll
use fingerprints and we use the fingerprint sensor on the side so I'll
put in a pin and now we'll scan the fingerprint so I'll just do this over
and over
it says reposition your finger each time okay and we're done
so that was pretty quick setting up the fingerprint sensor the actual haptics in
this phone feel pretty good too it doesn't feel cheap and feels more like
the touch on an iPhone with the taptic engine as opposed to just a regular
vibration motor so I'll sign in with my Samsung Account now it says I'm all done
signing in to everything we'll hit next says before you get started here's a
warning again about pressing on the display and things like that and keep
your phone away from credit cards mechanic medical devices and other
objects that may be affected by magnets it has magnets to actually help it close
like this and so let's unlock it there we go we'll had done it says just a sec
and we're at the home screen so we'll give it just a moment to fill everything
in we'll tap for weather info okay now let me dim the display just a bit now as
far as display and flicker and things like that
this display does use PWM for brightness so as you move the brightness up and
down it's going to affect how much it flickers faster or slower depending on
what you're doing now that's not a big deal for most people but about one out
of ten including myself is usually affected by this Samsung displays are
usually fast enough that it doesn't bother people's eyes but sometimes if
it's something like a oneplus 70 those phones actually flicker slow enough that
it can cause extreme headaches and things like that but in general we'll
see what it's like to use Samsung displays tend to be fast enough that
they won't bother you but it does have PWM so I thought I'd mention it now
after typing on this display it actually feels pretty good so if we go to the
Internet here and it's bringing us to Google we'll just look for Samsung and
the actual typing experience feels pretty good it doesn't feel like you're
actually tapping on anything other than glass although this is ultra thin glass
with a sheet of plastic over it so you have to be really careful with it now if
I fold it it shuts off and you hear a little
like letting you know it's it's turned off you open it back up and then you
just scan your fingerprint and you're in so it is sort of a two-step process
there now the way this display looks I'm actually pretty impressed with it but
you definitely see the fold there I'm assuming that you're going to ignore it
after a while you'll see it has some Microsoft apps pre-installed and let's
go to the app drawer here and see what else we have so we have Facebook
installed let's see if we can uninstall it
we can't uninstall it by default but we can disable it if we want to do that and
we have all of our normal apps that we would have anywhere else so there's only
one page but we have all the samsung apps we also have Microsoft apps as well
as Google apps here so I'll spend some time trying this out and I'll transfer
some of my information so I can use the phone and see what it's like now just as
I'm using this it does seem to feel a little bit warm here at the top and
that's probably where the CPU is I don't remember from the teardown but we have
batteries on both top and bottom and if I close it here
we should have a little display that lights up here so you've just got the
time your battery percentage and the date and then it goes away so if I tap
on it it should be responsive and see if I scroll through it there we go we have
some email and some downloads it's giving us our notification bar here now
a couple other things to note before we take a look at the cameras is that this
has a toe 2.11 a BGN and AC but no Wi-Fi six so they
haven't added that and that's fine for most things since a lot of people don't
have Wi-Fi 6 yet but this also has Android 10 and one UI 2 in it so let's
take a look at that so at the top you can see it has Android 10-1 UI version
2.1 and there's actually a software update available for this as well here's
the update that's available and it says it's added single take mode to the
camera and it also says the camera angle can be switched between wide and ultra
wide when tapping the camera preview on the cover screen it also says a software
update can include but it's not limited to stability and bug fixes and things
like that so I'll get this installed and then we'll take a look at the camera now
the phone is rebooted it's fully updated let's go into the camera here
and you'll see we have single take photo video and more and one thing I've been
noticing is the interface is just really smooth on this phone so the rear camera
is active so if I slide in a pixel 4xl and I'll do a quick size comparison in a
moment but watch the UI as I actually flip this in half so as I do that it
just slides up to the top really nice smooth animations things like that and
this is something that we've seen with other companies or stock pixel devices
for years but now everything's nice and smooth and fast and I really like it so
single take will actually take photos based on what moments it thinks is best
I just want to take a quick photo so we'll do that so it takes a quick photo
with the 12 megapixel camera and then we have the option for ultra wide so you'll
see again here I'll zoom in a little bit using the regular wide camera go ultra
wide and so you have those options and then you also have video in 4k 60 so you
can record video in 4k 60 with this camera and then of course we have a
selfie cam as well and so if I fold this in half again the UI changes and we can
take a video just like this so now I'm recording a video with the selfie cam on
the galaxy Z flip and it looks like it's doing a little bit of smoothing but in
the display anyway it looks pretty good so we'll hit stop there and the cameras
actually look better than I thought so in general I really like this
interface it's just really different it's kind of interesting to see
everything split up like that now as far as the size is concerned here is a pixel
for excel so this gives you an idea of size so it's a little bit taller but
about the same width or so and here's a pixel 3a XL to give you an idea as well
so both of these are good size phones but again you can just fold the flip in
half and you're good to go and everything feels very high-quality and
of course this has tons of fingerprints on it so they include a case with it
like this so I thought it'd be interesting to try this out it's a very
thin plastic case but it should be interesting to try so let me wipe this
off because this is super slippery and just slides around really easily so let
me wipe off the phone and apply the now the case itself actually has a
little bit of adhesive in it so you pull off these little blue tabs and the case
will adhere to it so you just want to make sure it's really nice and wipe down
clean and then we'll apply this and there you'll see it it does not protect
the bottom very well but it protects the side in the back so let's put on the
other side as well now on this side of the case there's no adhesive so let's go
ahead and just click it into place here make sure it's has no fingerprints on it
and there we go so the case is installed it's super thin and looks pretty good so
let's go ahead and open it back up and you can see what it looks like so it
still shows the phone and the color overall but it gives it a thin layer of
protection and doesn't really add to the bulk of the display or the phone in
general so it looks pretty good but doesn't add a ton of protection either
so the bottom is fully exposed but you get the idea I don't think anyone's
going to be careless with this sort of phone now this case does give it a
little bit of grip as well so even though it's a plastic case it feels much
more grippy and let's set it down quick it's still slippery but nowhere near
what it was before so it looks like it should be a little bit better now this
hinge is kind of interesting it will hold just a little bit like that and so
you can fold it and leave it like that and use it and kind of move through the
display it's kind of interesting how you can use it this way and it's just a
different sort of experience that I'm looking forward to trying I haven't seen
anything really new in quite some time and this is the first time I've got my
hands on a phone for more than five or ten seconds that folds so this was
really hard to find last week I found one in an AT&T store but they didn't
have any available so I was finally able to get my hands on one of these so I'll
take a little bit closer look at it use it for a little while and if you have
any other questions let me know in the comments below
I'll leave a link to this wallpaper in the description as well so if you'd like
to try it out on your phone hopefully it will fit properly but it's got a nice
look to it and shows the vibrancy of the display if
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always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time