I kinda like that he made a new channel to just play with new stuff instead of continuing to burn out on back-to-back deep dives/comparisons on the main channel.
It's sad because I prefer the videos like this. Casual and more personal, hearkening back to the early days of LTT being just Linus. He gets to be himself (more) instead of just some internet personality. Also a benefit that the videos are a lot easier to make too!
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k It's been so long that I forgot phones used to have that switch. Those were definitely satisfying to open. I used to press the button on my old panasonic phones just for it to whip out. Ah, the good old days, lol.
Flip phone technique is a skill the younger generations have yet to master. If they get the bugs out of these and they become common the "kids" will discover the satisfaction of closing the phone the hang up on people.
@@steampunkskunk3638 He has a skin though, without it this phone is so slippery feels like it will fly out of your hand. There's also sliding fingers inside technique before flipping, but that means at least one fingernail on the screern. Then the flip it out hard, and you might damage the hinge. Even linus mentions his phone looks like it over-opens..
@@steampunkskunk3638 Idk if this is another case of technology being adopted slower outside of america, but over here smartphones werent more than a gimmick until like 2011, so unless youre younger than 12 or smth youve probably atleast played around with a flip phone.
Yeah , i really do not think it was designed to be flipped violently , that thing will last probably 15 minutes with linus the flipper using it :) . Does anyone really buy a flip phone just show people they flip a phone ????
You can't trust someone theat click bait ..its like THE FOLD IS BENDED IN THE IN THE RONG DIRECTION" and he unboxed the phone with a skin on it ...like cmon
Which is why i disliked and wont sub. Not going to make any difference whatsoever in the grand scheme of things but its all i can do to say fuck clickbait titles
my Droid from 2010s pictures holds up pretty well in everything but resolution, obviously. you can get away with lower mp if the other parts are good and have a subpar camera with high mp (s20 much?)
@@RWoody1995 5mp game changer by Sony. Back when Sony, Nokia and Motorola were doing the most. Who remembers Sony? No, how about Nokia? No Motorola.. No. Damn things have changed. 😂
@@F1ll1nTh3Blanks Sony's new Xperias show promise but don't think it'll get much traction, Nokia is doing surprisingly well with budget phones, Motorola however 🤔
I"m glad they're still working on it but, I'm not interested until it's actually a good phone or makes some sort of sense to buy. Right now it's just a novelty. 3 or 4 more iterations from now and maybe they'll have something I'll want to have.
Yeah but for the price you might as well just buy an S20 Ultra for an extra 20 bucks and get a bigger screen, more RAM, better camera, 120hz refresh rate, more powerful processor, etc.
Agreed. I don't envy the design choices. Do you want a flip phone, a nintendo 3ds , a laptop, a smartphone? Yes this is a proof of concept that shouldn't hit the market, especially for $1500, but I'm sure glad they are exploring this sort of stuff.
9:19 "watching movies on the go, but mono speakers" ... I mean, who the hell watches movies on the go with the phone's own speakers? Use headphones when you're in public, bud!
Also, him trying to scroll down from the top, you can do it from the bottom to bring notifications and control panel, (I've the Z Flip) you can also activate gestures with the power button in the settings. I don't even have big hands, I've medium hands. Even at home I use headphones on my iPhone 11 Pro Max which has excellent stereo speakers.
When you're sitting on a bench with a bud and want to show him something i guess ? I bought a jack splitter for that, though. So i can plug 2 sets of headphones in the same phone, making speakers irrelevant even in that use case.
There's more to being on the go than being in public - stopping overnight at a friends and watching a movie in bed, cheap hotel with no movie options or simply taking your phone to the loo (or in the bath if it's got good water resistance)
@@Osean_Kitty now that would be interesting and then you can just load up a Gameboy emulator with that skin and you will have a thousand dollar 2020 Gameboy 😂
I was thinking the same thing when he was talking about putting it in his pocket vs. the phone. "This reminds of those times I used to put my SP in my pocket"
i used too then i got the p30 pro and i usually get atleast 3 maybe 4 days from a charge thats including watching videos and using it, standby it just never depletes its mental.
All of the other UA-camrs at the event were saying "Its hard to flip with one hand and the screen is more rigid now because of the glass" And then Linus is here flipping the phone using one hand with ease and then pressing the screen like a sponge.
One of the Z flip's hidden features is that you can poke the screen like it was a gum and say "Wow, look how weird it is" until you _accidentally_ break the screen.
@@unifiedhorizons2663 according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted by the NCHS, 39.6% of americans are obese. Not overweight, obese!
This channel shouldn't have to exist; it exists mainly because Pornhub isn't interested in SFW content. If UA-cam had ANY competition in the online video space (sorry, Floatplane, but you will NEVER matter in 9^9^9^9^9^9 years) they might have innovated at all in the last decade. They haven't. A creator with a "channel" should be able to arrange his content into "shows." LGR for example, he has Tech Tales and LGR Things and Oddware and Thrifts and such. Back before television came down with Stage 7 idea cancer, a "channel" was a broad topic sometimes representing a collection of creators, and it was time-shared by "shows" or "programs" that were more narrowly defined by format and topic. Sci-fi channel showed Star Trek reruns, Outer Limits (the old black and white and the very underrated 90's color reboot), Stargate SG-1, lots of sci-fi movies, etc. Then Stage 7 idea cancer hit and last I saw they had wrestling and Eureka. Point is, LMG should have a channel under which they could produce several shows, Tech News, product reviews, build videos, WAN show, server room explosions, unboxings, etc. You can _almost_ achieve that with playlists, but you can't subscribe to a playlist and a lot of creators don't playlist. So they have to make additional channels. But, the modern internet is Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Nothing, so...I guess let's all just keep dying long and painful deaths while trying anything we can think of to self-pacify.
When a phone starts costing more than a medium-high end gaming rig i stop paying attention and will see which of the new features will remain in place 5 years down the line.
Mobile phones have nothing on offer that's worth paying for above about €200. At that price you get a decent gorilla glass screen, adequate IP rating, more than enough battery life, enough speed, enough memory (All you'll ever need if there's an SD slot) and often 3 or more cameras that can take decent photos (Unless you're comparing with actual cameras with proper lenses), NFC capability etc. and they're all running the same apps, so what are you getting for 5-10 times the money apart from less disposable income?
Been using mine since it released and had no issues, traveled with it used it on the plane to watch movies, used it as GPS when driving around, use my air pod pros with it with full features, works with my google home environment, charges extremely fast since yes it is a small battery, and hasn't slowed down on me once. I use the case it came with and haven't had any issues with it. The portability it has when putting it in my pocket is amazing. This is coming from using a Pixel 3XL. I think its a great phone, does everything I want it to do. Yes its still new tech but for what it offers I think its great. And lets be honest here...the key selling point here is flipping to answer and flipping to end a call like a boss.
@@mikldude9376 And flippidy flopping the phones every time I want to use them is a great step in the direction of optimal ergonomics? Don't think so...
Yeah really? Right now, yes but in the future? We never know. Just like what Steve Jobs did to Apple produk an iPhone. The first full screen phone. That time almost every phone are have a QWERTY keyboard on the phone but Steve see the problem with it. He change it and says it as revolusioner and yes indeed he do it. Even he is not the first do it but he did it good. He see the problem with it and fix or solve it!.
Linus once said: "I am not mad, I am just disappointed" Samsung: We can't let that happen again. How do we stop it? Also Samsung: If we don't provide him the phone, he can't roast it!!
I noticed that too... He usually handles a new/most devices wire some care and respect for the viewers (just like any normal person). Here he's treating that phone like shit from the beginning like a little spoiled rich kid that doesn't appreciate anything! Seems so petty and entitled cos Samsung didn't send him one... lost a lot of respect from me.
@@yindyarxvb8280 still have my note 9. I missed my last 2 upgrades on purpose. They keep trying to throw the ultra at me but Im perfectly fine with my note 9.
The TOS Tricorder was more like a portable cassette player of the time... Call it 9" x 6" x 4" and didn't fold. Even the STNG tricorder was quite a bit thicker /nerdmode off
Or a telescopic pen. It could extend itself as you pull it out of the phone and vice versa. I doubt it could be made with plastic like the current ones. Trouble is the tip has to be plastic to allow the signal to get through to the pickup coil - perhaps a plastic tip could be the part that extends out of a stronger metal half? Also is it even possible to put the phone side sensors for the pen inside a flexible screen? Soo many questions!
I am also watching this in vertical mode (which I find myself doing a lot lately without realising?) but the comment is at 69 likes so I can't like it :(
This looks promising to me, I'll be keeping a close eye on the next generation of this if there is one, I'd be interested in owning a phone that compacts down but has a strong screen (both in res, size and actual strength), it has potential but this first version is a bit meh.
that's easy to explain: the Samsung designers just played a lot of gameboy advance sp, and they think like "why I don't make a phone with that design?"
I’m surprised you got it in the first place. This phone should have actually folded like a z, a dual fold, to create a normal tablet size when open and a normal (but thic) candy bar style phone when closed
while I was initially excited with this particular phone when I saw it in the Samsung store, the premium you have to pay for this phone by virtue of fad and one certain feature is not that exciting at all. personally I have grown to appreciate the non-flip aspect of smartphones added by the practicality of casings. I know that this may cater those with small sized pockets but it does defeat the purpose especially when thickness is also considered. while the flip feature is a nice aspect, it's not that new at all and should not command twice the price for a typical smartphone. it's a good alternative but not groundbreaking. I would continue to use the typical smartphones unless my pockets are unable to house them in or ran out of fanny packs. good job Samsung, but I'm sticking with your S20s instead.
Yeah, the tech is definitively interesting, but I'm still going to wait a bit with this thing. I'm ok with it not being the latest gen processor, battery life is more important then performance for me, I'd like good audio quality (ideally with a built in DAC), battery life (preferably with replacable battery), good screen quality (not so much in terms of number of pixels but in terms of colors, some variant of a 1440p screen would be perfect for me in a phone as I can't see the pixels of 4k screens anyway in a phone but *would* like a *little* bit more then 1080p), some ruggedness so it can fall down without being damaged, be used for a long time without damage due to wear and ideally some water resistance. Decent long range data speeds, not too worried about wi-fi 6 and other short range high bandwidth stuff, a decent camera, doesn't have to be the best but needs to be good enough to take quality pictures and ok videos (the videos don't need to be good, I'm fine with the videos just being ok), good call quality with good audio quality when talking on the phone, good mic, at least when it comes to voice quality, it should be easy to hear me when I talk in the phone, for other things I'm ok with some loss of quality if I say play some music on another device or instrument or something and someone else is listening on the other end of a call. I think something like that should be possible. =) On the processor side I think I'd be happy with one superfast core (flagship single thread performance), one fast core (last gen stuff) and 4-6 slow but energy sipping cores for the CPU and a decent midrange GPU, decent amount of memory and storage, neither of them needs to be the fastest if the processors has enough cache, otherwise a somewhat fast RAM might be required, but if there's enough cache I think I'd prefer more but slower RAM and rather a big L4 cache in the processor to help with snappiness, possibly with a data management co-processor like the PS5 helping with pre-fetching data from memory and loading data *to* the memory without consuming CPU resources, with slow storage it wouldn't do much in terms of actual speed, but reducing CPU load and ensuring that data is already present in the memory could help quite a lot..
9:10 Linus, if you want to have wide 21:9 wide audio stereo audio, you shoukd have reviewed the Xperia 1 last year. Try again this time with the Xperia 1 mk2, it has front firing stereo now
I love the video, but one part that always bugs me with these mini-reviews/impressions. Is the content displayed on the device screen. I'd urge you hit developers options > scaling > find appropriate range for smallest width. Fits so much more content on the screen, assuming you found a good "smallest width".
I know more people increase the scaling than decrease it. Yes, it'll fit more, but reading small text from a normal distance requires either really good eyesight or lots more concentration. The default setting is what most people use, so it's what should be used to measure the amount of content on-screen.
The SIM card thing has to be Canada-only, like how setting up the phone without a SIM and then inserting one wipes it. In the US, neither of those are a thing.
Y No, because some american phones don't have a SIM card, you have to call your carrier on another phone and tell them your IMEI number. I think they do it so they can up your contract price for upgrading, rather than just swapping SIMs and they have no idea what phone you use.
@@dafoex You're referring to CDMA networks (Verizon and Sprint). It used to be the same in Canada on Bell and Telus, which were also CDMA until the last decade. Having to call your carrier to switch phones hasn't been a thing for like 10 years now.
@@JFangBlade I am American. Our phones don't wipe when you insert a SIM (our Samsung model numbers end in 'U'). Canadian models (ending in 'W') do wipe.
So as someone who loves both of the folding phone concepts, I disagree with the argument that a flip version simply takes a pocketable object and makes it pocketable, but thick. I don't think the current flip phones are worth it, and the Samsung flip is even unquestionably worse than the new Razr. I do, however, want to see this mode of thinking advanced. The main reason is that current phones may fit in the pocket, but they're large enough that is is -really- comfortable, despite the fact that we all do it. If you're someone like me who frequently pulls your phone out just for a couple seconds, and then back in the pocket, you probably tear your cuticles and get spots on your hands from the hem of your pocket rubbing as you reach in and pull out that phone. The current smartphone design is just BARELY small enough to fit through the top of a typical jean pocket with your hand around it. And thanks to how large smartphones are, even reaching into the pocket with the phone in there can be troublesome on some of my pairs of jeans. So when the new Razr was announced I was excited. Not for that particular phone, but for the future it represents. Specifically, the potential future where a full-size smart phone could be folded away into an object the size of say...a box of tic-tacs. Two things need to happen before that, though. First, it obviously needs to be thinner if you're going to accomplish 2+ folds. Second, they MUST figure out how to make it feel flat and firm along the seams when open. I do think both of these things are not far away from being possible IF companies actually try to accomplish them. But a 7" screen with a 1"x2"x2" pocket profile would have EVERYONE excited no matter what the performance specs were.
definitely not. cause folding is THE ONLY argument Samsung has to take the 1,3K so it's not "do you expect it to fix ur marriage and cure ur cancer cause it's over 1k$ ?" but rather "do you expect it to have a nice folding sound for the extra (I dunno... probably like) 500$?
When Linus freaked out about scrolling when the phone is tilted, my first thought was that it's just like scrolling on a laptop with a multitouch trackpad...
Imagine how helpful this would be for girls. There's literally memes about them fitting half their phone in their pocket and it's the size of half a phone.
Eh, a lot of womens' pockets are like 2 inches deep, and that's if you're lucky. Also it's super wide when folded. Although it might fit in the back pocket?
Gotta say, as pointless as this thing is, I was immediately disappointed when I finished the video and I realized I couldn't flip my phone shut. It just looks so satisfying.
Finally someone who agrees that these things are pointless. Overly expensive, fragile, flimsy and in no way any more convenient that a regular rectangle.
Monty thing is, touchscreens were a technology in their infancy back then. We’ve already moved past flip phones. They’re not more convenient than a regular phone. I would hate to have a phone with a crease down the middle of the screen which happens to be made of plastic. Or to pay 1300 dollars for a phone that isn’t any better than one I can get for, say, 700 dollars. They’ll probably get better, sure, but right now, they are utterly pointless.
@@dammitcarl1082 we haven't moved passed flip phones we just adapted to big giant glass slabs instead now the technology is here (in its infancy) one day we will have flip phones again I remember a time before flip phones when phones where just a giant brick/rectangle with a long antenna....
One of the most important parts of a phone is the screen and the screen on that not only look cheap, but probably feels cheap. The spongy plasticy feel, crease and warping when touched simply does not give the impression of a high end expensive phone. I get annoyed having a tiny scratch on the screen, I could not use a phone with a huge crease in the middle that can get scratched from just your finger nails.
So many double entendres... >_> "It actually has a bit of a curve to it" "Can you tell on camera that it's open a little too far?" "The extra width actually makes it a little uncomfortable to do that" "Other than that you can kinda stick it wherever you want" "I wasn't even poking at it super hard" "I had just like touched it or something" "I can't think of anything I've ever used where I gotta reach so high up I gotta shift my hands so much to reach that" "Yeah massive six point seven inch"
Agree Linus. I bought the fold and returned this too. Finding one was hard so I picked up an Amazon Renewed and then put the Samsung rom on it. Amazing phone.
MKBHD with his huge hands - "you can't really unfold it with 1 hand"
Linus with his baby hands - *flip-flop-flip-flop* (with one hand)
MKBHD: am I a joke to you
Did MKBHD ever daily drive a flip phone back in the day? Because that is where Linus picked up his skill.
Mkbhd is a bit of a sour puss
He also said he couldn't open the galaxy buds one handed but that's literally how i open them everyday..
The guy plays frisbee he should be able to open a folding phone with one hand lol
i read this like pewdiepie
flip-flop
flip-flip-flop
Linus: i feel like retiring
Also linus: imma start 8 new chanels cuz i need them plaques baby
I kinda like that he made a new channel to just play with new stuff instead of continuing to burn out on back-to-back deep dives/comparisons on the main channel.
I think in a recent Wan Show they thought of making a PC case with the plaques.
for heatsinks
I'm waiting for side panel left, side pannel right, etc channel's for Luke's pc case
It's sad because I prefer the videos like this. Casual and more personal, hearkening back to the early days of LTT being just Linus. He gets to be himself (more) instead of just some internet personality.
Also a benefit that the videos are a lot easier to make too!
When its closed, it reminds me of my old GameBoy Advanced SP
I have good memories of that and the advance
Same
Bruhhhhhhh
Didn't have the sp but i know what it looks like i have a gba micro the best gba
Exactly what I was thinking!
Me: "reading the Title*
also me: "did he drop it?
Linus "Drop" Tips
in matter of fact, he did lol
He did indeed do that! Check 04:10.
Almost ;)
@@ShortCircuit no..., he/you did, don't deny it 😂
Finally someone who flips the phone correctly
gotta get you're wrist into it. TBF tho, I am not sure I would be that crazy with a phone I spent over $1,000 on
Yeah, the combination of the thumb push and the wrist flick seems like it'd be the way you'd just naturally do it, but some people... =_=
Well it doesn't have a button spring open flip like the old Ericsson T28. Which was a lot cooler. 😀
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k It's been so long that I forgot phones used to have that switch. Those were definitely satisfying to open. I used to press the button on my old panasonic phones just for it to whip out. Ah, the good old days, lol.
All it takes is a user who lived through it lmao
Samsung: *Doesn't send him a galaxy Z flip*
Linus: Thats when I took it personally
D-Brand put skins on it before Linus handled it to avoid him dropping it. Absolute 1000 IQ plays.
Phone was like "Dude stop closing the screen im trying to set up"
Gameboy Advance SP that's what this phone reminds me of when closed
itsGuy oh my god yes
I can totally see it
I want one just to use for a game boy 😫
I was so in love with that tiny ass SP.
When I lost it, my heart died with it.
mine's on the floor on charge and as soon as you mentioned it I glanced over to it
Literally everyone: its a real pain to flip it open with one hand
Linus: Click clack click clack click
Flip phone technique is a skill the younger generations have yet to master. If they get the bugs out of these and they become common the "kids" will discover the satisfaction of closing the phone the hang up on people.
@@steampunkskunk3638 He has a skin though, without it this phone is so slippery feels like it will fly out of your hand. There's also sliding fingers inside technique before flipping, but that means at least one fingernail on the screern. Then the flip it out hard, and you might damage the hinge. Even linus mentions his phone looks like it over-opens..
@@steampunkskunk3638 Idk if this is another case of technology being adopted slower outside of america, but over here smartphones werent more than a gimmick until like 2011, so unless youre younger than 12 or smth youve probably atleast played around with a flip phone.
It's all in the flck of the wrist...those who had flip phones knows this
Yeah , i really do not think it was designed to be flipped violently , that thing will last probably 15 minutes with linus the flipper using it :) .
Does anyone really buy a flip phone just show people they flip a phone ????
No intro no outro, straight to the "review" i like it
can't wait till this tech gets better . I really like the flip !!!!
Trying to find the part of the video where he says he’s gonna return it
You can't trust someone theat click bait ..its like THE FOLD IS BENDED IN THE IN THE RONG DIRECTION" and he unboxed the phone with a skin on it ...like cmon
He's just upset samsung didn't send him a demo model.
Which is why i disliked and wont sub. Not going to make any difference whatsoever in the grand scheme of things but its all i can do to say fuck clickbait titles
^ Samsung fanboys ^
Mihai Stefan He got the phone directly from dband, stop being ignorant
"you'll be using it for ONE DAY, and ONE DAY only"
* laughs in charging my phone 3 times a day*
i have 4030 mah battery i charge once in two days
*laughs in continuously plugged to the powerbank like a life support*
@Tech With Aniket U have s20 ultra?
@Tech With Aniket ah 6000 mah time
My one plus 7 pro just about manages a 12 hour work day but I'm a trucker, I'm using it for one thing or another all of those hours
Remember when dual 12mp cameras was considered a "photography beast"
Remember when one 3 megapixel camera was considered a "photography beast"
Woah you can actually distinguish people who are a few meters away!
Bitch please I had a VGA camera phone
my Droid from 2010s pictures holds up pretty well in everything but resolution, obviously. you can get away with lower mp if the other parts are good and have a subpar camera with high mp (s20 much?)
@@RWoody1995 5mp game changer by Sony. Back when Sony, Nokia and Motorola were doing the most.
Who remembers Sony? No, how about Nokia? No Motorola.. No. Damn things have changed. 😂
@@F1ll1nTh3Blanks Sony's new Xperias show promise but don't think it'll get much traction, Nokia is doing surprisingly well with budget phones, Motorola however 🤔
I"m glad they're still working on it but, I'm not interested until it's actually a good phone or makes some sort of sense to buy. Right now it's just a novelty. 3 or 4 more iterations from now and maybe they'll have something I'll want to have.
Yeah ikr, feels like it's still in the "early adapter" phase
TBH, almost every modern smartphone has pointless features.
Yeah but for the price you might as well just buy an S20 Ultra for an extra 20 bucks and get a bigger screen, more RAM, better camera, 120hz refresh rate, more powerful processor, etc.
Right. This is going to make sense in about two years
Agreed. I don't envy the design choices. Do you want a flip phone, a nintendo 3ds , a laptop, a smartphone? Yes this is a proof of concept that shouldn't hit the market, especially for $1500, but I'm sure glad they are exploring this sort of stuff.
5:50 - When your boss cracks a lame joke and you're forced to laugh because he pays you. 😂
LTT team: It's funny because it's true... xD
Omg so relatable. But I am 14 and don't have a job
9:19 "watching movies on the go, but mono speakers" ... I mean, who the hell watches movies on the go with the phone's own speakers? Use headphones when you're in public, bud!
Yeah I know like I dont think I have ever used my phones speakers
Also, him trying to scroll down from the top, you can do it from the bottom to bring notifications and control panel, (I've the Z Flip) you can also activate gestures with the power button in the settings. I don't even have big hands, I've medium hands. Even at home I use headphones on my iPhone 11 Pro Max which has excellent stereo speakers.
Call of depression Intimate warfare I don’t think I’ve used a headphone in a year
I don’t watch anything in public
When you're sitting on a bench with a bud and want to show him something i guess ?
I bought a jack splitter for that, though. So i can plug 2 sets of headphones in the same phone, making speakers irrelevant even in that use case.
There's more to being on the go than being in public - stopping overnight at a friends and watching a movie in bed, cheap hotel with no movie options or simply taking your phone to the loo (or in the bath if it's got good water resistance)
I just realized that this phone reminds me of a Gameboy advance SP
same here. I wonder if someone will make a D-brand like skin that looks like a GBA SP.
@@Osean_Kitty now that would be interesting and then you can just load up a Gameboy emulator with that skin and you will have a thousand dollar 2020 Gameboy 😂
I was going to comment that lol
I was thinking the same thing when he was talking about putting it in his pocket vs. the phone. "This reminds of those times I used to put my SP in my pocket"
@dbrand would agree
So is “I’m returning my...” a new LTT meme?
What's ltt?
William Campbell Link in The descripTion
@@azerty1033 oh cool thanks
@@williamcampbell9859 LinusTechTips
@@williamcampbell9859 lttstore.com
"1 day and 1 day only between charges" am I the only person who charges my phone every night?
i charge once in two days with 4030 mAh bettery
I'm still rocking a galaxy note 8, and I have to charge twice a day :)
S10+ and I charge twice a day (heavy use).
i used too then i got the p30 pro and i usually get atleast 3 maybe 4 days from a charge thats including watching videos and using it, standby it just never depletes its mental.
@@theloa7154 too bad we don't get it in the states
4:13 Now you can stop watching.
I think we all knew that drop was coming lol
It only took me until the end of this video until I realized that this wasn't Linus Tech Tips but ShortCircuit
wait what I didn't even realized
Until*
Can you explain the difference??
@@aquanos I am so soo sorry for my silly mistake. I corrected myself shamefully.
@@skeldpt4506 He said he would make this channel more so for "product reviews" ....Titles and content seem to be about the same tbh.
All of the other UA-camrs at the event were saying "Its hard to flip with one hand and the screen is more rigid now because of the glass"
And then Linus is here flipping the phone using one hand with ease and then pressing the screen like a sponge.
... It is way more rigid. UTG was a MASSIVE step forward for foldable displays.
One of the Z flip's hidden features is that you can poke the screen like it was a gum and say "Wow, look how weird it is" until you _accidentally_ break the screen.
Switch your words. It would be accidentally breaking the screen. Not break accidentally the screen.
@@ratedRblazin420 I'm not that good at speaking in english, thanks anyway.
"Why I won't buy this phone": You can scratch/kill the screen with your fingernails. imo; not worth $1400USD
@@ratedRblazin420 Shut Up !!
LMAO !!
I'm still waiting for the Note Fold that comes with a hinged stylus.
Or a Nintendo DS pen
@@Mr.Thicket Like the extendable one from the 3DS or something. Yikes
A foldable stylus? I wanna see dat
i read it as nokia fold and now i actually really want to see a nokia fold.
it would be the most durable one for sure.
Linus: ohhhhhhh that’s just awful Canadian prices
Me: *cries in polar bear*
@Goofy Laws me laughs in no one asked
*$2,199AUD*
Cries in Australian
@Goofy Laws me I’m skinny boy so stop talking about Americans being fat
@@unifiedhorizons2663 according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted by the NCHS, 39.6% of americans are obese. Not overweight, obese!
@@seyamrahman1002 aint that the same thing?
I'm glad that he reminded me that this isn't Linus Tech Tips because I literally forgot xD
Dude I forgot last time I watched a video on here and didn't subscribe and forgot the channels name lol. Only now am I finding it again.
This channel shouldn't have to exist; it exists mainly because Pornhub isn't interested in SFW content.
If UA-cam had ANY competition in the online video space (sorry, Floatplane, but you will NEVER matter in 9^9^9^9^9^9 years) they might have innovated at all in the last decade. They haven't. A creator with a "channel" should be able to arrange his content into "shows." LGR for example, he has Tech Tales and LGR Things and Oddware and Thrifts and such. Back before television came down with Stage 7 idea cancer, a "channel" was a broad topic sometimes representing a collection of creators, and it was time-shared by "shows" or "programs" that were more narrowly defined by format and topic. Sci-fi channel showed Star Trek reruns, Outer Limits (the old black and white and the very underrated 90's color reboot), Stargate SG-1, lots of sci-fi movies, etc. Then Stage 7 idea cancer hit and last I saw they had wrestling and Eureka. Point is, LMG should have a channel under which they could produce several shows, Tech News, product reviews, build videos, WAN show, server room explosions, unboxings, etc.
You can _almost_ achieve that with playlists, but you can't subscribe to a playlist and a lot of creators don't playlist. So they have to make additional channels. But, the modern internet is Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Nothing, so...I guess let's all just keep dying long and painful deaths while trying anything we can think of to self-pacify.
When a phone starts costing more than a medium-high end gaming rig i stop paying attention and will see which of the new features will remain in place 5 years down the line.
Or in this case a new old feature...
What's High End Today Trickles Down Tomorrow :)
You mean mid high end smart phones 1400 dollars is around the mid high end smartphone
Mobile phones have nothing on offer that's worth paying for above about €200. At that price you get a decent gorilla glass screen, adequate IP rating, more than enough battery life, enough speed, enough memory (All you'll ever need if there's an SD slot) and often 3 or more cameras that can take decent photos (Unless you're comparing with actual cameras with proper lenses), NFC capability etc. and they're all running the same apps, so what are you getting for 5-10 times the money apart from less disposable income?
it's expensive because it's a new technology first gen device. Cost will go down with time, and the technology will get better as well
Been using mine since it released and had no issues, traveled with it used it on the plane to watch movies, used it as GPS when driving around, use my air pod pros with it with full features, works with my google home environment, charges extremely fast since yes it is a small battery, and hasn't slowed down on me once. I use the case it came with and haven't had any issues with it. The portability it has when putting it in my pocket is amazing. This is coming from using a Pixel 3XL. I think its a great phone, does everything I want it to do. Yes its still new tech but for what it offers I think its great.
And lets be honest here...the key selling point here is flipping to answer and flipping to end a call like a boss.
Finally someone realized that this phone solves a problem that never existed
wrong , the problem of ergonomics and huge slabs phones exists too the extreme in this day and age .
@@mikldude9376 And flippidy flopping the phones every time I want to use them is a great step in the direction of optimal ergonomics? Don't think so...
Yeah really? Right now, yes but in the future? We never know. Just like what Steve Jobs did to Apple produk an iPhone. The first full screen phone. That time almost every phone are have a QWERTY keyboard on the phone but Steve see the problem with it. He change it and says it as revolusioner and yes indeed he do it. Even he is not the first do it but he did it good. He see the problem with it and fix or solve it!.
Pxel Guy I never thought I’d see the day someone says it’s to much work to open a phone
@@blake6718 same here mate.
Linus once said: "I am not mad, I am just disappointed"
Samsung: We can't let that happen again. How do we stop it?
Also Samsung: If we don't provide him the phone, he can't roast it!!
Mad not sad.
Dbrand: Muahahahaha
And if he still does, at least we'll earn a few bucks
@@KunigasSuvirintojas 👍👍
To be fair Linus and his audience is DEFINITELY not the target audience of the z flip.
"I'm returning it"
*smashes it off the desk a dozen times while filming it*
Linus: Samsung didn't send me one.
Also Linus: flips it open 15 times hitting the table :D
Also linus doesn't know the cost
@@dustinmoore2589 True :)
He must feel entitled or somethingbut he started complaining about stupid thing since the beginning I stopped watching after less than 30 seconds
@@michaelmarquez6133 he is a reviewer, that is his job
I noticed that too... He usually handles a new/most devices wire some care and respect for the viewers (just like any normal person). Here he's treating that phone like shit from the beginning like a little spoiled rich kid that doesn't appreciate anything! Seems so petty and entitled cos Samsung didn't send him one... lost a lot of respect from me.
I coined that phrase. Like a French guy saying "Z flip phone."
Give me another S10e and maybe an S20 instead.
Arakaneï Nope, that would be Zed flip.
Can somebody stop Samsung for making foldable phones
I'm incredibly excited for this in about 5 years when/if foldables are actually affordable.
You can buy a Z for like 700 new these days.
@@alexgoia9530 i just paid 700$ for one today. Watching the tracking for the next 2-5 days is gonna be painful I'm super hype
@@Kowalskithegreat Haha, I feel ya, man. Enjoy it!
You couldn’t live with your failure
Flip Phone: where did that bring you, back to me
@@cookiemonster-ky9ru and you need to put the punctuations in quotes.
Just saying...
@@papaKiPariTohHumBhiHain you shouldn't start a sentence with "and" especially, if there was no sentence or message prior.
@@cookiemonster-ky9ru At least you took my advice and implemented the double quotes!
@@papaKiPariTohHumBhiHain ?
@@sachin2842 what point does this message serve? The wording also makes it very unclear of the point you were trying to make.
10:22: Oh, I'm not in LTT
"You can kinda stick it wherever you want." - Linus, 2020
"-Linus Sex Tips"
oh no
Long and thin or short and thick
Smoreozie bruh
Love that Linus is still using his Note 9, a great phone.
He has like 100s of them LMAO, i think he uses S20 ultra now..
Watching this on my note 9 I bought because linus recommended it
@@yindyarxvb8280 i like the note 9
@@yindyarxvb8280 still have my note 9. I missed my last 2 upgrades on purpose. They keep trying to throw the ultra at me but Im perfectly fine with my note 9.
Is there a case for this little toy that looks like a tricorder or communicator from Star Trek TOS?
You can get a bluetooth replica
The TOS Tricorder was more like a portable cassette player of the time... Call it 9" x 6" x 4" and didn't fold. Even the STNG tricorder was quite a bit thicker
/nerdmode off
Gets flip phone.
Immediately goes Captain Kirk with it.
Noice!
Definitely feels like a beta test sort of device. I look forward to the second generation folding phones. Maybe we'll get a folding Note some day.
@@aychar_ or a short pen
@@aychar_ Or, like, a pen that fits in the nor foldable part of the phone. I think that could work too
This is the second gen.
Or a telescopic pen. It could extend itself as you pull it out of the phone and vice versa. I doubt it could be made with plastic like the current ones. Trouble is the tip has to be plastic to allow the signal to get through to the pickup coil - perhaps a plastic tip could be the part that extends out of a stronger metal half?
Also is it even possible to put the phone side sensors for the pen inside a flexible screen? Soo many questions!
The pen inside the hinge
"You can stick it wherever you want it"
Not in 2020, Linus.
Chris Carter - I’m sure he can take it with power 😜
Good thing "it expands into something much larger"
I'd say _especially_ in 2020 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
"You can grab em by the fold and the small hands don't mean anything."
How many UA-cam channels you want?
Linus: Yes.
"OTHER THAN THAT YOU CAN STICK IT WHEREVER YOU WANT"
that's what she said!!!
Where's the funny?
"I'm the kind of person that will occasionally watch a video in vertical mode" he says as I'm watching his video in vertical mode.
...and?
@@HeadsetHistorian aNd¿
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That’s just cause I went straight to the comment 😅
I am also watching this in vertical mode (which I find myself doing a lot lately without realising?) but the comment is at 69 likes so I can't like it :(
amuse me how Linus can be really smart AND really dumb in the same sentence.
"Does this open too far?"
*continues to man handle the hinge open and closed*
"I'm beautiful enough" -Linus Sebastian
I'm beautiful enough . . . to not stop any clocks.
This looks promising to me, I'll be keeping a close eye on the next generation of this if there is one, I'd be interested in owning a phone that compacts down but has a strong screen (both in res, size and actual strength), it has potential but this first version is a bit meh.
that's easy to explain: the Samsung designers just played a lot of gameboy advance sp, and they think like "why I don't make a phone with that design?"
"the second samsung foldable phone"
Come on man I'm watching on my samsung rugby 2
9:17 if your watching movies ON THE GO, you wouldn't be using your phone's speakers anyway to watch a movie.
Big pepe
Sony Xperia already doing the 21:9 with no notch or holds ...
@@Hobaklatte I mean, not VERY large...
Dont forget great cameras and features like headphone jacks
@@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ best part is the Xperia 1 doesn't have a HP jack but the MkII does
I’m surprised you got it in the first place. This phone should have actually folded like a z, a dual fold, to create a normal tablet size when open and a normal (but thic) candy bar style phone when closed
Oh fuck
@@roflmfao4life ?
But no it folds like a V, which would’ve been a WAY more fitting name
Fuck no how you pocket that thing?
Chad Burton anyone who had the old HTC slider or maybe even sidekicks would know, it’s a back pocket device to be removed when sitting
while I was initially excited with this particular phone when I saw it in the Samsung store, the premium you have to pay for this phone by virtue of fad and one certain feature is not that exciting at all. personally I have grown to appreciate the non-flip aspect of smartphones added by the practicality of casings. I know that this may cater those with small sized pockets but it does defeat the purpose especially when thickness is also considered. while the flip feature is a nice aspect, it's not that new at all and should not command twice the price for a typical smartphone. it's a good alternative but not groundbreaking. I would continue to use the typical smartphones unless my pockets are unable to house them in or ran out of fanny packs. good job Samsung, but I'm sticking with your S20s instead.
It's 2020: we are healthy gamers now.
We are moving cashew dust and komboocha yeast out of the way.
I just have a glob of kombucha hanging out on my mousepad
Does g fuel powder count?
Lol... You are very much in the minority of gamers.
Robert T You don’t know gamers. Rarely do I find a huge one...
Cashews aren’t that healthy my guy
Linus: Omg the glass is awesome!
JerryRigEverything(Zach): What glass.
Zack*
@@vidpetrovic8907 Zaxh
@@vidpetrovic8907 ups okey
@@knightriderultimate XD
when did he say it was awesome
Saying 8gb of RAM with 256gb of storage is low end is like saying
"Sorry I don't speak poor"
User manual: DON'T PRESS THE SCREEN.
Linus: *poke *poke *poke *giggles *poke *poke
"i'm returning my mac pro" -- keeps it forever.
"i'm returning my Z Flip" -- But Really??
Well Anthony broke something in the Mac Pro after that returning is off the table
ZygisM he broke the screen of the iMac, but nothing of the MacPro 🧐
@@fabianz6258 watch the Mac Pro vid first then talk
Fabian Z watch the vid dude
Yeah, the tech is definitively interesting, but I'm still going to wait a bit with this thing.
I'm ok with it not being the latest gen processor, battery life is more important then performance for me, I'd like good audio quality (ideally with a built in DAC), battery life (preferably with replacable battery), good screen quality (not so much in terms of number of pixels but in terms of colors, some variant of a 1440p screen would be perfect for me in a phone as I can't see the pixels of 4k screens anyway in a phone but *would* like a *little* bit more then 1080p), some ruggedness so it can fall down without being damaged, be used for a long time without damage due to wear and ideally some water resistance.
Decent long range data speeds, not too worried about wi-fi 6 and other short range high bandwidth stuff, a decent camera, doesn't have to be the best but needs to be good enough to take quality pictures and ok videos (the videos don't need to be good, I'm fine with the videos just being ok), good call quality with good audio quality when talking on the phone, good mic, at least when it comes to voice quality, it should be easy to hear me when I talk in the phone, for other things I'm ok with some loss of quality if I say play some music on another device or instrument or something and someone else is listening on the other end of a call.
I think something like that should be possible. =)
On the processor side I think I'd be happy with one superfast core (flagship single thread performance), one fast core (last gen stuff) and 4-6 slow but energy sipping cores for the CPU and a decent midrange GPU, decent amount of memory and storage, neither of them needs to be the fastest if the processors has enough cache, otherwise a somewhat fast RAM might be required, but if there's enough cache I think I'd prefer more but slower RAM and rather a big L4 cache in the processor to help with snappiness, possibly with a data management co-processor like the PS5 helping with pre-fetching data from memory and loading data *to* the memory without consuming CPU resources, with slow storage it wouldn't do much in terms of actual speed, but reducing CPU load and ensuring that data is already present in the memory could help quite a lot..
9:10 Linus, if you want to have wide 21:9 wide audio stereo audio, you shoukd have reviewed the Xperia 1 last year.
Try again this time with the Xperia 1 mk2, it has front firing stereo now
"It looks like the Flip... is a Flop."
Is how I thought Linus was going to end his review.
ええ、同じく。😂
shut up weeb
@@naufalap 黙れ 一人にして😂
naufalap shut up racist 😂
@@nintySW til weeb is a race 😂👌
On a scale of 1-10, how offended did Linus get when Samsung didn't send him a review unit of the Flip ? 😂
9
1
Alex C 9
9
a strong 10
5:38 I can't wait until laptops can do that.
You mean tablet, right?
?
At that point they would be monitor sized tablets with laptop specs...
@@azarilh2355 Wooooosh
It's the first big screen phone that can fit in a woman's pockets!
If they had pockets...
the thickness probably makes it equally impossible
Hello MOTO
Meat wallet*
Gotta love a thick pocket bulge!
interesting seeing the initial reactions for this after also seeing all the cracked screens
The shape when folded reminds me of like a clamshell gameboy advanced.
I love the video, but one part that always bugs me with these mini-reviews/impressions. Is the content displayed on the device screen. I'd urge you hit developers options > scaling > find appropriate range for smallest width.
Fits so much more content on the screen, assuming you found a good "smallest width".
Honestly, not everyone goes that hard and use their phone in out of the box.
I know more people increase the scaling than decrease it. Yes, it'll fit more, but reading small text from a normal distance requires either really good eyesight or lots more concentration.
The default setting is what most people use, so it's what should be used to measure the amount of content on-screen.
I have this phone and its awesome.
The photos are amazing
looks like a gameboy advanced when you close it
well shizzle, play a gameboy emulator on it. thatll be some nostalgia
SP
The SIM card thing has to be Canada-only, like how setting up the phone without a SIM and then inserting one wipes it. In the US, neither of those are a thing.
ProductFRED +1 for this
Sounds American as fuck tho
Y
No, because some american phones don't have a SIM card, you have to call your carrier on another phone and tell them your IMEI number.
I think they do it so they can up your contract price for upgrading, rather than just swapping SIMs and they have no idea what phone you use.
@@dafoex You're referring to CDMA networks (Verizon and Sprint). It used to be the same in Canada on Bell and Telus, which were also CDMA until the last decade. Having to call your carrier to switch phones hasn't been a thing for like 10 years now.
@@JFangBlade I am American. Our phones don't wipe when you insert a SIM (our Samsung model numbers end in 'U'). Canadian models (ending in 'W') do wipe.
i absolutely love your reviews! well spoken, funny, and i watch your reviews to stuff i dont even care about lol youre very entertaining=)
I not even notice that this wasnt LTT, until 10:26 LOL
we should have a party and watch Linus videos just to take a shot everytime he even slightly drops something.
Lol
@@Alex-gz7wz thank you i also thought it was a super lol worthy comment myself. my ego has been boosted.
So as someone who loves both of the folding phone concepts, I disagree with the argument that a flip version simply takes a pocketable object and makes it pocketable, but thick. I don't think the current flip phones are worth it, and the Samsung flip is even unquestionably worse than the new Razr. I do, however, want to see this mode of thinking advanced.
The main reason is that current phones may fit in the pocket, but they're large enough that is is -really- comfortable, despite the fact that we all do it. If you're someone like me who frequently pulls your phone out just for a couple seconds, and then back in the pocket, you probably tear your cuticles and get spots on your hands from the hem of your pocket rubbing as you reach in and pull out that phone.
The current smartphone design is just BARELY small enough to fit through the top of a typical jean pocket with your hand around it. And thanks to how large smartphones are, even reaching into the pocket with the phone in there can be troublesome on some of my pairs of jeans. So when the new Razr was announced I was excited. Not for that particular phone, but for the future it represents. Specifically, the potential future where a full-size smart phone could be folded away into an object the size of say...a box of tic-tacs.
Two things need to happen before that, though. First, it obviously needs to be thinner if you're going to accomplish 2+ folds. Second, they MUST figure out how to make it feel flat and firm along the seams when open. I do think both of these things are not far away from being possible IF companies actually try to accomplish them. But a 7" screen with a 1"x2"x2" pocket profile would have EVERYONE excited no matter what the performance specs were.
"i wish closing it would have a better sound"
Nitpick at its finest.
It is $1380.
@@SirGarmaples do you expect it to fix ur marriage and cure ur cancer cause it's over 1k$ ?
@@SirGarmaples So...?
well does it affect the whole review of the product? no does it affect other's thought of the product? no
definitely not. cause folding is THE ONLY argument Samsung has to take the 1,3K
so it's not "do you expect it to fix ur marriage and cure ur cancer cause it's over 1k$ ?"
but rather "do you expect it to have a nice folding sound for the extra (I dunno... probably like) 500$?
Didn't even realize that this was on a different channel till the end
"... for watching movies on the go"
Oh, I have a device that let's me do that too! It's called a phone ;)
Linus: I've thought about retiring.
Also Linus: Let's start a new channel. We're hard at work to get as many videos out as possible!
When Linus freaked out about scrolling when the phone is tilted, my first thought was that it's just like scrolling on a laptop with a multitouch trackpad...
Samsung: People these foldable phones are still new so be easy..
Linus: 9:30
😂😂
Jerry rig everything: *Laughs in breaking*
If you liked the 21:9 aspect ratio then you may be interested in reviewing the sony xperia 1 or xperia 1 mark 2
Nobody cares about sonys expenssive narrow phones
Close your eyes and you will feel like Michael Scott is reviewing this phone.
Omg... That's amazing. 🤣
I close my eyes and heard "ItS sUpEr SoFt"
Sorry,I was the 70th like
as I watch this video in vertical mode*
"I am the kind of person who will occasionally watch a video in vertical mode"
What absolute mad men.
Imagine how helpful this would be for girls. There's literally memes about them fitting half their phone in their pocket and it's the size of half a phone.
Have you ever actually dated a women?
As a woman, I concur.
@@him4real262 how is it relevant
@@him4real262 Have you ever actually dated "a women" who wears skintight jeans?
Eh, a lot of womens' pockets are like 2 inches deep, and that's if you're lucky. Also it's super wide when folded. Although it might fit in the back pocket?
Gotta say, as pointless as this thing is, I was immediately disappointed when I finished the video and I realized I couldn't flip my phone shut. It just looks so satisfying.
Finally someone who agrees that these things are pointless. Overly expensive, fragile, flimsy and in no way any more convenient that a regular rectangle.
@@dammitcarl1082 I remember when people said the same about touchscreens
@@ssjmonstar "no one will use a touchscreen keyboard". There will always be pessimistic people
Monty thing is, touchscreens were a technology in their infancy back then. We’ve already moved past flip phones. They’re not more convenient than a regular phone. I would hate to have a phone with a crease down the middle of the screen which happens to be made of plastic. Or to pay 1300 dollars for a phone that isn’t any better than one I can get for, say, 700 dollars. They’ll probably get better, sure, but right now, they are utterly pointless.
@@dammitcarl1082 we haven't moved passed flip phones we just adapted to big giant glass slabs instead
now the technology is here (in its infancy) one day we will have flip phones again
I remember a time before flip phones when phones where just a giant brick/rectangle with a long antenna....
Did anyone else have serious anxiety watching him just wreak havoc on that hinge? (9:30)
Me
One of the most important parts of a phone is the screen and the screen on that not only look cheap, but probably feels cheap. The spongy plasticy feel, crease and warping when touched simply does not give the impression of a high end expensive phone. I get annoyed having a tiny scratch on the screen, I could not use a phone with a huge crease in the middle that can get scratched from just your finger nails.
"I'm not poking it super hard" as he pokes it superhard
He honestly didn't poke it superhard lol. You can tell by seeing his intrinsic hand muscles that he was poking it pretty softly actually
@@mh0Ang95 yet I literally dropped mine off my roof and it didn't even crack.
@Abhishek Harge hide behind your screen and calling me a dolt. Wow. Im so hurt.
@Abhishek Harge I was only making a comment on a comment he said. And I was just now being sarcastic.
This video was framed perfectly for my s8.Youre a good man
I almost didn't even notice this was not LTT. LMAO
I was believing Linus had forgotten the sponsor! And then he says we are in the seconday channel :D
Everyone else: 70% energy
Linus: 120% energy
"Instead of long and thin. It's shorter and thicker." LOL
So many double entendres... >_>
"It actually has a bit of a curve to it"
"Can you tell on camera that it's open a little too far?"
"The extra width actually makes it a little uncomfortable to do that"
"Other than that you can kinda stick it wherever you want"
"I wasn't even poking at it super hard"
"I had just like touched it or something"
"I can't think of anything I've ever used where I gotta reach so high up I gotta shift my hands so much to reach that"
"Yeah massive six point seven inch"
Think you need to go and get laid.
@@ShallowDepression Needn't we all? It's kinda natural.
@@natangurfinkel Eh?
Agree Linus. I bought the fold and returned this too. Finding one was hard so I picked up an Amazon Renewed and then put the Samsung rom on it. Amazing phone.
8:02 really need this as my wallpaper lol