Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 Unboxing

I think we like to think of ourselves as you know now I will hold it actually this way they're beautiful so that's more intelligent speaker grills your hands actually fit in you see the way they thought about it your hands fitting below that really that's all it took anyway they got brains those pigs got brains and uh they're they have complex brains like we do and so they started their their trials talk about the knurling stuff oh man this just makes me realize it makes me miss the fold the original fold because the thing about this gig the thing about this job you're switching phones so much it's hard to even keep it together what do i like the most what do i enjoy the most what really gets me going after a decade of doing this a decade that's right and sometimes you forget what your experiences were like as you flip between phones after that one and this it's just bringing it all back for me it's becoming clear that this is the type of experience that can be a lot of fun and to be honest with you even though as nice as that full screen thing is this mode right here when you're just playing the video up top and then jumping into your next video or the comments over here and then the video on the top is basically the size of a smartphone tremendous experience well i don't need to tell you the audio sounds good as well by the way now i do want to jump into the camera real quick now something really cool here is you actually have like a half folded mode now where the the device knows if you're in a sort of partial fold and there's new functionality throughout apps to take advantage of that like in this case if i go ahead and snap a quick photo of my note series here like this and then go ahead and do a half fold you see the recent photo over there because you might want to quickly check up on it now the other thing you can do with this off button here is you actually can put the cover screen onto the preview look at it so they're starting to think about ways in which they can really utilize this unusual and this unique form factor now as far as camera performance is concerned we have the usual suspects including the standard focal length we have the 2x zoom so nothing super crazy in the zoom area at least in the optical at least in the optical world and then the 0.5 x wide so we have a few a few options here to choose from very vibrant and saturated sort of what samsung is known for so we can just toggle through probably the standard frame here the most impressive of the bunch but you have the versatility of the ultra wide and a little bit of zoom which should be suitable for most people now of course you may want to toggle that selfie camera as well in which case we can do the little beard hair and it does have the double setting on it as well for the group shot which i'll set it to that by default in three two one kablamo and yes we successfully have identified individual beard hairs as you'd expect in this even this preview window you start to recognize the advantage of having so much screen when you go in there even to analyze whether it's a photo maybe it's google maps that you're just zooming in upon it's a whole different kind of experience from a typical smartphone because the scale is just so much more significant and then if you go to the partial close or to the full close you can carry on your activities over here on this particular display you can use your camera from within this display same thing i might want a single-handed selfie in which case it's a blamo like so and it's just a regular smartphone from this standpoint i go back into the camera and maybe i want to take not a selfie at all but i just want to use my camera like this maybe this is a more convenient hold for me there's my standard focal length there's my wide it's all just better thought out than the previous version and kind of well i mean it's more sophisticated it's the next model you would expect them to go in there and learn a bunch from the original and fix some of the things from the original i believe they've done this it feels sleeker smoother it feels more like a finished product it's still going to be a premium device with a premium price tag we need to remember that but i'm glad they're still working on it i'm glad devices like this exist to kind of reinvigorate my perspective on tech and give me a place to put my sim card that is different from the vast landscape of slabs that exist out there in 2020