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hey guys it is finally here we finally got our hands on it this is the Samsung Galaxy pull which is the first commercially available foldable phone from Samsung and let me just tell you that front it's pretty amazing when you've got it closed you've got this relatively small display on the front but when you open it up it becomes this enormous display which is almost pretty much the size of a tablet it's very squared off you've got a snap tracking an 855 processor in here 12 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of the storage which is one of the most highest spec phones that we've seen so far and you can almost think of it kind of like a laptop in a way because if you could connect a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to this that would be pretty insane now the concept of this device is that you're gonna be able to have this relatively thin and tall phone in your pocket when you're making calls when you're doing other things but if you want to have that big display for like media consumption or maybe like watching YouTube or something like that you can open it up and it just becomes this enormous display and yes there is a visible crease down the center but honestly if you're looking at it spot-on you really don't notice it you only notice it if you're looking from the side or if it's the daytime and there's glare as Samsung's designed this special hinged mechanism that makes this work so it actually folds open instead of closed like the Huawei mate X and it's supposed to be rated for an insane number of closes and there's this really really nice audible when you close it and when you open it as well now since I wanted to make sure that you can use this phone from pretty much any orientation so there's a selfie camera on the front there are three cameras on the back pretty much the same array is the Samsung Galaxy S 10 and if you open up the phone you've got more cameras inside of the phone so you've got a total of six cameras on this phone which is pretty insane for a device we haven't really seen that before but Samsung wants to make sure that you're able to shoot pictures in pretty much any orientation and shooting when the phone is open is actually a pretty good experience you're able to see this enormous frame while you're taking the photo and it doesn't look quite as bad as someone that's holding up an eye to take a picture now another really nice aspect of the ability to be able to open this phone into this giant display is gaming we played some asphalt on this phone and it's just insane how nice of an experience it is to be able to play on that immersive giant display a big reason that people buy tablets in the first place is to have a more immersive media experience and if you can have that in your phone that's kind of a double whammy now something special that Samsung works specifically with Google on here is something called app continuity and it's something that's going to be available in pretty much every foldable device here on out now if you have something open on the main display on the front and then you open the phone up you'll be able to see that same app in a huge full screen mode so for example if you open up Google Maps on the small display in the front or even a YouTube video and you opened up the phone you unfolded it it would become an immersive giant experience that you'd be able to use on the big display now this phone is a lot more narrow and taller than most phones that you're gonna be using nowadays but I actually kind of like it it's kind of like a candy bar style like you would have used on an old lg chocolate or something like that although it is quite a bit thicker if you look at it from the bottom it's pretty much two phones slapped together so if you don't have thick pockets then you might need to find somewhere else to store this the screen is made of a plastic material currently which is not the most ideal situation but right now you can't really bend glass to be able to put in the phone so it's kind of a necessary evil on the side of the phone you've got volume rockers a power button and a sight mounted fingerprint reader which is really interesting for Samsung but this also doubles as a big speed button instead of putting the big speed button on the other side like we've traditionally seen on the Galaxy S tank on the top and bottom you've got these big speakers and when are you using this phone in the immersive tablet mode they actually get really loud the media experience here was really really nice and we were playing YouTube videos or playing things like asphalt it was a really loud experience now currently it's running Android 9pi at launch but we're assuming this will be upgraded to Android cue because Android cue actually has native integration for foldable devices we should probably make this work a little bit better with every app that's not specifically tailored by Google or Sam now such a big display you might be a little bit worried about battery life but it does have a pretty big 4380 million power cell or should I say two cells because this is effectively two phones slapped together that share a similar screen so there's two big batteries in here and we don't know exactly how long that battery will last quite yet but we will be sure to let you know in our full review coming very soon so that's about it for the samsung galaxy pulled so far we're going to have a ton more content on this when we get advice and we're just going to be using it and putting it through its paces over time let us know if you think ask us your questions we'll be sure to answer them in the comment section below and head over to the website where we've got a full gallery with a ton of images and a lot more product information and until the next video I will catch you later alright guys so I just left my briefing and then boom all of a sudden there's a complete media blitz on Twitter about the Samsung Galaxy fold so effectively if you've been on Twitter have you seen the articles there's a few kind of weird things happening with this phone right now one is that they have this special adhesive coating that goes over the screen that is part of the screen and people were peeling them off and the phone basically won't work if you peel them off and Samsung does have a couple messages that say please don't peel this off and apparently in the retail packaging it also has some more direct messaging this says please do not peel this off because the phone will not work but in the review units that we were given apparently they did not say don't peel it off and so a few people did and these screens cease to work so I feel like that's a kind of a messaging issue from Samsung they really needed to be a little more direct and clear about that so that's problem one the the second problem is a problem that's not really fixable it's some people's displays are just breaking dieter over at the verge his phone started bulging and then he thinks that maybe something got inside of it but it basically broke the display and it caused this line in the O LEDs and that's just not good and so it's pretty much completely broken they're setting him in a replacement and then someone else's screen just also stopped working it just had this line going down the center and then the entire left side of the display just started flashing white and it's totally broken so that's a little bit concerning now two phones I don't know if I would say that this phone is completely unusable at this point but it is a little bit concerning especially since there weren't that many people that actually got these devices so I would be on the lookout we're gonna have a lot more information about this as the story unfolds we're still waiting from a note from Samsung so stay tuned for that in the near future all right guys so in a shocking turn of events I just got back to my office and now Samsung actually did issue a statement regarding these issues so I'm gonna read it to you real quick it says any limited number of early Galaxy fold samples were provided for media to review we have received a few reports regarding the main display of the samples provided we will thoroughly inspect these units in person to determine the cause of the matter so I'll let you interpret that as you will but it seems like Samsung is going to be checking these units themselves they also said separately a few reporters reported having removed the top layer of the display causing damage to the screen the main display of the Galaxy fold features a top protective layer which is part of the display structure designed to protect the screen from unintended scratches removing the protective layer or adding adhesives to the main display may cause damage we will ensure the information is clearly delivered to our customers so I assuming maybe that's meaning they're going to be adding it into their packaging or something I think they probably already sent it out to like people like t-mobile but they're saying that they're going to make sure that they tell the customers that so we'll just have to wait and see but that is the latest information I think the video will probably up in like 20 minutes from me recording this so I hope you enjoyed the hands-on video and I'll catch you in the next one