I've been just sort of fascinated by Samsung Galaxy Fold
Ever since it was unveiled a couple weeks ago. I've been just sort of fascinated by this phone like Samsung never let anyone touch it. They never showed it to anyone. They only had very specific demo footage for a while. It kind of felt like a myth but now suddenly I'm actually holding one. So the basic concept in case you forgot Galaxy fold has one smaller outer screen and one large folding inner screen in a single device for 1980 bucks. This is my very first impressions of V final phone that people paying this money will actually get so right off the bat. This phone is chunky.So we kind of saw it coming with other folding phones like the Royale Flex pie and even the Huawei mate X but it kind of has basically the feel of too small. Samsung phones put back-to-back next to each other with a hinge in between and it doesn't go all the way completely flat against each other when it's closed like a sandwich instead. They create this little angle like a small triangle and then the phone's shape like this Fold It Up is just really tall and narrow. So it's got this like candy bar sort of feel and it's pretty heavy as well. Now the screen on the front as you might remember is a 4.6-inch cover display very tall and then when you flip it open you get a 7.3 inch OLED display.
"That's nearly exactly 4 by 3. So pretty wide now I know the main question a lot of people have about this is probably about the crease down in the Middle where it folds. So to be perfectly clear".
The actual closing and unfolding movement of opening and closing, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is extremely satisfying:
Yes, you can see the crease especially when you're just a little bit off Axis or if you have a light wallpaper, and yes, you can even feel it when you run your finger over it so it's not this perfectly precisely flat uninterrupted glass feel but honestly gets pretty close. Like when you're looking at it straight on you can easily forget about it and it's again much. Better than that real FlexPay. I saw see. Yes, although I guess that wasn't a very high bar to clear. And also I got to say the actual closing and unfolding movement of opening and closing. It is extremely satisfying.
I wish I brought my mic to this Hands-On so you could actually hear the thunk sound that it makes when it closes but there's some strong magnets in either half of the phone that open and close and connect it. It's so strong you could actually like pick up paper clips with the phone but that opening and closing that think it makes I kind of love that and a hinge it just sort of snaps open to a full hundred eighty degree flat position and everywhere in between those two positions is pretty fluid to whatever angle you want. But it definitely feels like its Springs are trying to pull itself closed.
But yeah opening and closing. The phone is definitely a two-handed operation. I tried it with one hand. And of course, I really really didn't want to drop it and I couldn't do it. So it's definitely going to be a two-handed process. I'm sure that's what we mostly expected. And actually, that process can get kind of tricky sometimes with the interesting button layout so there's a power button Side of the phone where you'd probably expect it.
The phone Samsung Galaxy Fold is easy to fold it or unfold it:
There's also the volume rocker and also a separate fingerprint reader for unlocking that doubles as a Bixby button. So it's actually incredibly easy to accidentally trigger Bixby whether you're unlocking the phone or just trying to fold it or unfold it. I guess that's classic Samsung. Okay, a few other things I did notice one Samsung did technically just make a phone with a notch and no headphone jack kind of sad I guess but it actually does come with their new Galaxy buds their wireless headphones.
So that's cool and the notch on the inside screen which holds two cameras and a bunch of other sensors actually has this lip to it that sort of raised up from the rest of the screen, but the notification pulldown actually doesn't work from that side when you're unfolded anyway, so I guess it's not a big deal that the lip is there but you definitely still get it cutting into things like videos and games or really anything that's full screen and then speaking of cameras.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold actually has six total camera sensors:
So there's the 10-megapixel selfie camera on the front when it's List, then you open it up and you get that Notch which has an identical 10-megapixel selfie camera with an additional depth sensor like the Galaxy S 10 plus and then on the back. Yes in a camera bump on this already pretty thick phone. You have the standard the ultra wide and the telephoto camera is just like the galaxy has 10 had so you'll never be at a shortage of cameras and lenses here and you can see just looking at the phone Samsung have to do a lot of creative things just to get the fold to work like a normal phone.
There's some special adhesive in the display. And of course, the folding plastic that actually folds on the front. They also split the batter into two parts one in each half of the phone and it's all connected through this very special hinge design, but they still did manage to get high-end specs in there. You got your Snapdragon 855 12 gigs of RAM your 512 gigs of storage not expandable and then you have your stereo speakers. You still have reverse wireless charging and the combined battery is huge. It's 4380 milliamp hours. So it's really equipped.
It actually works and gets work done. Now. There are two main features to take advantage of the fact that it folds continuity and multi-window. So the continuity is interesting but it does make sense. So you do have totally separate wallpaper and home screen layouts on both the front and the back screens, they're independent of each other but with supported apps which are mostly Samsung and Google apps right now. You can open them on the small screen then unfold the phone and they will continue where you left off on the big screen and it actually works pretty quickly and surprisingly well much faster than that one time on stage that we first saw the demo.
I open the Play Store scroll down a little bit then unfolded the phone and the Play Store was open and even scroll down a bit where I left off that is dope another good application for it was Google Maps which we see in the demos of on stage, but I tried it. I opened up Google Maps and I clicked on this business listing and then when I unfolded the phone that listing was open where I left off just much bigger.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold has two huge screens on the inside and 12 gigs of RAM:
I got to play with this more. I think it also works with YouTube videos and some other apps. I'm going to test out a lot that should be really interesting. But that other feature I mentioned is multi-window and I guess as you'd expect with a huge screen on the inside and 12 gigs of RAM and everything, you can easily have multiple apps open at once you just have to swipe in from the right side and all the supporting apps will show up and you can have two apps side by side and you can adjust the size of the window the border between them and everything and that's about as far as I would typically go but you can keep opening and keep bringing in apps and adding floating windows and even more up to a total of 8 apps open at once and you can have most of them in these sort of floating multi Windows.
Not know what kind of person is doing that much multitasking on a little 7-inch screen that person probably needs a full-sized tablet anyway, but it's cool that the let you go crazy and won't limit you up till 8 apps. So overall I'm coming away from that initial hands-on pretty impressed. Like it's always scary when it comes. He announces something but then doesn't let you touch it and they don't want you to like ever use it until it's about to come out. So I was a bit nervous about actually being a complete finished feeling product. But it does feel pretty good. Now if I nitpick even a little bit, of course, I'm going to find all sorts of stuff. That's not ideal.
"You know, the outside screen being the main one. It's so small and has so much Bezel and hearing four point six inches doesn't sound that small but I find it actually even difficult to type on with the keyboard open on the small screen and then there's the notch stuff being a little bit weird and the slightly incomplete not quite fold is kind of weird".
The price the Samsung Galaxy Fold is very high:
The price is super high, you know, there's all that stuff but you know, what at the end of the day, even if you never use the screen on the front, you still get a big screen that folds in half and fits in your pocket. That's the part that feels like the future and the big screen is, of course, a better camera viewfinder a better web browser a better video washing experience and all of that is super cool. It's a step in the right direction and this is definitely going to be one Those funds people actually want to get in the stores and play with an open-close and see for themselves if they're into it, but there will also be much more video coverage coming including a full review on this channel.
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