Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the samsung galaxy z fold 3 5g this is the
latest folding phone flagship from samsung now this comes in at $1799 and goes up to $1899
and comes in 256 or 512 gigabytes of storage this is the 256 gigabyte variant it also comes
in phantom black phantom green and phantom silver this is the silver model so let's
go ahead and unbox it so i've got my unboxing knife here unbox it here cut the little plastic
and let's go ahead and put the knife away and open this up so we'll take the top of the box off
and you can see the phone here so we'll set this aside and take a closer look in just a
moment and let's see what comes in the box so nothing else just this little pamphlet here
and inside let's see what we've got so we've got a usbc to usbc charge cable
and there is no charger included although they do give you quite a few points if you order it from
samsung to get a free charger with it so i was able to get a free charger and a wireless charger
trio as well so you have those or you can get something else as well such as samsung galaxy buds
now if we take this out of the box you'll see we have a quick start guide and we have samsung
galaxy z premier service and that is all no warranty cards or anything else and nothing else
is in the box on the back we do have a sim card ejector tool so let's go ahead and set these aside
now also this supports s pen support so i was able to get a free case with it
again with those samsung pre-order points so we'll take a closer look at that in a little bit
now as far as the phone itself let's go ahead and take the wrapper off it
there we go and here is the phone itself so on the back you can see it's got that silver color
let me go ahead and close it and you can see what it looks like it sort of has a pinkish hue if i
if i move it around in the light but it is a silver color now as far as the overall design
let's take a closer look now this year this is supposed to be ipx8 certified so you can get it
wet although i wouldn't swim with it you can get it wet on the front we have a new display that has
gorilla glass victus on it and preinstalled screen protectors you can see that a little
bit around the camera edge there on the back you can see we have a nice sort of chrome look to it
and it is a little bit thinner than last year so you can see on the bottom we have a usbc
port as well as our microphone and then a speaker on the side we've got our power sleep wake button
that also acts as a fingerprint reader we've got a volume rocker and then it looks like we've got a
millimeter wave antenna here and our sim card tray let's go ahead and remove the sim card tray here
and see what we've got and so depending on where you live i think this is
dual sim in some places but it does have an e sim as well but nothing here again no expandable
storage maybe you could use dual sim on there but it doesn't look like there's room for it
in some markets there may be and then also on the back here we have our camera array
three cameras with a flash and we'll talk more about that in a moment now the display on the
outside is a 6.2 inch display 832 by 2268 and has 120 hertz now before i open this up i just
want to show you a size comparison this is the s21 ultra next to it so it gives you an idea of
overall thickness so each individual half of the phone is a little bit thinner than the one before
that we had with the z fold 2 and the s21 ultra so that's the s21 ultra and also if you're a note
user it's about the thickness maybe a little bit thinner than a note so the note might be a little
bit thicker not including the camera bump on the back but this gives you a general idea of size
the note is a little bit taller and also the notes a little bit wider so if you're familiar
with those devices just to give you a general idea so let me set those aside and take a closer look
at the phone itself so we'll open this up and unfolding it the hinge feels very nice it's a
little stiffer than the previous one so you'll see again on the top here we have a speaker and
then three different microphones and it's very nice the way this opens and closes it has a pre
pre-installed screen protector and then when the screen is on it should be harder to see that
little front-facing camera now the front display before i turn it on is 2208 by 1768 pixels
and it's 374 pixels per inch now let's go ahead and turn it on
and see what we've got so we'll boot it up here hold the power sleep wake button
hopefully it has a charge there we go it vibrated a little bit to give some haptic feedback
and internally this has a snapdragon 888 5g it has 12 gigabytes of ram and one of the downsides this
year is a smaller battery it has a 4400 milliamp hour battery which for some people is not getting
them through the day but we'll have to test that out and see if it works for me now before i set
this up let's take a look at the cameras because there's quite a bit to talk about here these are
not the flagship cameras we have on the s21 ultra with the periscope zoom but they are good cameras
a triple 12 megapixel setup we have 26 millimeters wide 12 millimeter ultra wide and a 52 millimeter
telephoto zoom they can record in 4k 60 with hdr 10 plus so that's really nice now on the front
or the cover camera we have a 10 megapixel camera that's an f 2.2 aperture that can record in 4k 30
with hdr now internally the selfie camera is just 4 megapixels it's more for conference calls and
things like that it's an f 1.8 4 megapixel and you can see already looking straight on you can sort
of see the selfie camera with the white display let's go ahead and set it up so we'll hit start
and we have to agree to these or at least some of them we'll hit next and we'll choose a wi-fi
network now i'm connected for wi-fi it's checking for updates and says getting your phone ready
this may take a few minutes now as you're looking straight on at the phone you really can't see the
crease in it however if i turn it just off axis a little bit you can see the crease so it's
there but not noticeable as long as you're looking straight on at the phone and you can't even see it
you can feel it if you move your finger across it though but this screen protector definitely feels
better it has more of a plastic slash glass feel to it it's somewhere in between so it does feel
pretty nice and the phone feels very durable much more durable than the previous generations in my
experience so at least the way it feels now while we're waiting for this internally it does have
wi-fi 802.11 a b g n ac and wi-fi six but also it supports wi-fi 6e and bluetooth 5.2 so it supports
all of the latest standards this should be a pretty nice phone to use as far as data speeds
so it's asking me if i want to copy apps and data i'll hit don't copy for now i can do that a little
bit later if i want to it's checking info and now it wants me to sign in with google so i'll go
ahead and do that now once you sign in with your google account and agree to the terms and services
it asks you to protect your phone using either face recognition which is 2d it's not like face
id where it's three three dimensional it also is asking for either fingerprints pattern or pin
so we'll go ahead and use the fingerprint scanner and it says continue and i'll put in
a pin for security now it's telling me to scan my fingerprint so we'll go ahead and do that
you'll see it's going along pretty quickly it's nice and fast and it's recognizing it i do like
a fingerprint sensor over a face id type setup so this fingerprint sensor is really nice you can add
another finger i don't think i'll be using it with a different finger for now we'll go ahead and hit
next now it says your assistant will be right with you so we're waiting for google assistant
now it's asking me to sign in with a samsung account i can do that a little bit later if i
want to but you have the option for all of these different samsung things so i'll skip it for now
since it's a little bit easier to set up later and now it's telling me how to take care of the phone
pressing on the screen or front camera lens with a harder sharp object such as a pen or fingernail
may cause damage such as scratches or dents saying only use the s pen pro or s pen fold edition other
s pen styluses may damage the screen also it says when you fold it make sure there's nothing inside
and it also says it's not dust resistant so exposure to small particles such as sand may cause
damage but it is ipx rated like i said before it says immersion in any liquid other than fresh
water such as salt water or alcohol can damage your phone it also tells you not to remove the
protective film and that this has magnets in it so we'll go ahead and hit next and it says you're
all set up so we'll go ahead and hit finish and get to the home screen so here's the home screen
and this is just the default home screen let's see what apps we have this should be android 11 so
let's go to settings and we'll go down to software update and see what we've got so it's connecting
we'll see what we've got for an update here and it says couldn't download update let's try it again
and it says it's up to date and it has the july 1st security update installed so there could be
one a little bit later but that's what's installed right now now if we go home and we scr we swipe up
you'll see that we have a bunch of samsung apps installed and it did look a little bit slow at
that point but we did just set this up and we have some microsoft apps installed like you would
expect you've got office and onedrive and outlook and then you also have typical samsung apps here
and facebook as well if we press and hold on facebook we can uninstall it though so we
have the option to uninstall that if you want to where in previous versions we couldn't sometimes
also if we pull out from the side we've got our little menu bar typical of samsung here
and if we close this on the screen here there we go and it says double double tap
the clock to view settings so we can double tap the clock and we've got our settings option here
and then we can use our fingerprint to unlock so we've got this bigger screen on the front
although it is very vertical i suppose so you've got this big screen here if we go to the left
we have google news or our update here which is nice and we no longer have to have bixby there
we'll tap the weather to set that up now as far as the hole punch display i want to share that
since it sort of disappears depending on what you're doing so if i rotate chrome
you'll see it's there there but if you look at it straight on it's not very noticeable to me it
is a little bit pixelated and it doesn't bother me but it may bother some people now as far as
the overall quality of the cameras i could test those in a different video but i wanted to share
the forward-facing camera since this will probably be more for something like maybe doing conference
calls so if we go into our settings you'll see we have up to 1080p 60 here and if i hit record now
i'm recording from the z fold 3 forward facing camera it's only 4 megapixels but i'm recording
from the microphone as well so everything's coming from the z-fold 3. the video quality is not that
great but it seems like it'll work just fine for conference calls and things like that but i
probably wouldn't use it for anything else you've got so many other cameras it doesn't make sense
so the display does look good i love that it's a little bit different i'm not so sure
that i'm sold on folding displays but let me know what you think about them in the comments
below now the phone overall definitely feels thick and very solid so i'm impressed with the
overall quality the way it feels to open and one thing that they're not doing this year is they
did not release a note and so since we don't have a note we can now use an s pen on the z
fold three so i thought we'd try that out so i was able to get that so you cannot use the pen
from the note it's a different type of pen with a harder tip on the end so it doesn't really give
much as i push on my finger here so let's go ahead and open up the case that has the new s pen in it
so here's the case it says flip cover with pen galaxy z fold 3 5g and we'll undo it here
and let's open up the case here and it feels like it's a nice leather case but let's see what we've
got and then here's the pen itself so the pen is a little bit bigger than the previous pens
and does not go inside it should have a little bit more give to the tip although this is quite
a lot of pressure but it's designed not to damage the screen so you can see it's
quite a bit of pressure as i push on it here and then the case itself let's see what we've got in
here so we have a little bit of an instruction booklet here that shows you how to use it and
gives more information in many different languages so we'll set this this aside and it looks like
we've got some additional pen tips in here as well as you would normally get with the s pen so
we'll set that aside and take a closer look at the case now the case does feel very nice it's got a
microfiber inside the feel there and then you've got the pen holder right here so it's a nice
opening it is a little bit thick but not too bad but let's go ahead and place the phone in it so
we'll put the phone in here like this clips into place and it looks like that's it so this folds
like this and then it closes over the front and it does not feel as though it's magnetic or anything
it just sort of flops there so that's not very nice but you can slide this in here like that
to hold the pen and now you've got your little folio case with it so it feels very nice it's
very high quality feeling but let's take the pen out and then we'll open it up like this
we'll unlock it and now we should be able to use the pen so you'll see it says completing setup and
let's go home and see what we've got here so we can go into here and then maybe open an app
such as the camera so it's responding to the pens touch it's working just fine and if i push on it
you'll see here i can push and it feels like it's a lot of pressure to put on a folding screen but i
guess it's okay now it doesn't have the bluetooth remote functions that you get with the s pen in
the note series but you can do just about anything else so let's see if we have the drawing app on
here at all if it's built in by default or not so if we go in here see what we've got for samsung
we've got my files and more so let's go to pen up create artwork we'll skip we'll agree and now we
should be able to create some new artwork so we'll just draw here and now we can draw and it even has
that sound of though you're writing with pencil so that's kind of nice it's pretty responsive too
so they've added sound effects which is really kind of odd but the speaker does sound quite good
let's go into youtube and hear what the speaker actually sounds like as well so here's my video
comparing the note 20 ultra with the iphone 12 pro max let's go ahead and rotate it here and
we'll expand it there we go and let's hear the speakers so we'll hit ok let's turn it up here
now i'll rotate this the microphone so you can
hear it a little bit better that was just off axis and it's quite loud
now the speakers are pretty impressive and just using this is really nice so far i'm not
crazy about the case as it just sort of flops around here so you have to hold it like this
with this extra extension out so unless it's folded around the back like this
you're going to have to do that now i want to try out the multitasking as well so if we go to google
maybe we'll go to the app switcher here and we'll open in split screen so you've got that option of
course you can slide it out to full screen and you have the option to multitask like you would expect
with any of the note series or the z fold series so you can do that with additional apps as well
of course you do have that outside display if you want to use that and that's equally as awkward
with this folded around the back so it's really hard to use this with this case on so i'm not sure
you'd want to keep this on all the time unless you leave it open most of the time so it's pretty nice
that way if you want to see a comparison between this and other phones i'd love to hear from you
in the comments below it does seem to wake it up though so that's pretty nice let's see it does
wake it up with the case but if you want to see a comparison between this and other phones i'd
love to hear from you in the comments below what you'd like to see it compared with and if there's
anything else you'd like to know about it i'd love to hear from you in the comments below now
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i
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