Gadgetory

this is my new studio and if it looks a little familiar it's because this would be a great place for some unboxing some therapeutic unboxings but the reality is I was interested in this new Galaxy fold and I didn't have access to because I'm not cool enough but there is someone we all know who is so this is actually my very first time interacting with the Galaxy fold ladies and gentlemen Dave 2d welcome you know who is I mean you're living on a rock okay so I've been using it my SIM card is in it so it's the daily is in the daily driver status so just keep that in mind that's okay I'll take you this is the first this is the true first impression dave has not looked at I haven't even seen people's videos not your video not Marquez's nobody's video cuz I want to I present you my latest invention the Galaxy fold I'll unlock it for you this is the number one question with the scene yes once I'd seen it before I know a lot of people have like talked about it and a lot of people are critical about it early on it's there it's there it's more noticeable than I thought it would be it's there here's the funny thing about it in this environment right like this well-lit environment this is like this is almost like daylight sort of yeah in this video here it's super bright everyone says they whoever comes here there's all kinds of reflections to be had and those reflections create yeah the perception of a much bigger scene than when you're in other lighting environments like for example well you where do you usually use your phone where would you have it fold it out where would you be consuming content maybe for some people it's in broad daylight and in it and then the scene would bother them more but for me personally it is typically indoors yeah and the brighter the screen is in relationship to the ambient light the more that the crease disappears unless you're looking for it if you're really looking for it you can find it but there's been an interesting conversation about it like a lot of people are saying that's a deal breaker for them right out of the gate because they're not used to the idea of a smartphone having this imperfection like this but then there's a different group of people that are like hey man products have had hinges and seems like what about a book if you have a if you slightly shift your person effective and you think of more typical traditional content delivery systems like publications like paper then you kind of change a little you're good with it well you kind of change your perspective I feel like the the fold is it's noticeable I feel like I've get used to really quickly it would definitely be better if you couldn't see it yeah absolutely it would be better if you couldn't but considering the payoff what you get in exchange for the crease I think it's worth it I think it's okay the front screen that's small it's weird seeing a 20-19 like premium phone with such a small main display I don't it's not I mean the main display but this is the screen you're gonna be looking at the most right you're gonna look at this and never you're gonna unfold it I'm unfolding like yeah I'm unfolding like crazy part of it is cuz the keyboard is so nice when it's unfold is open yeah you can I can really tell it's still gonna take some getting used to but it's it's super comfy so the implementation that this phone has with the you know it's the wahwee the phone the mate yeah excellent they roll with the outside screens as being like the main yeah if it bends the other way right closes it closes backwards compared to this yeah yeah what do you what he feels like the way to go for software yeah so when I saw the I saw the announcement for each one and I shot I saw the initial presentation for each one yeah my my head was in the wall we can because I was like well no one wants to give up their display in portrait mode yeah being sort of flagship level especially if they're spending 2,000 bucks mm-hmm and it stayed that way until I got this one in the hand really yeah because I thought there's no way that this could prevail but then I opened it up and I touched the inside screen and I was like oh man that's pretty soft and that ain't korilla glass or anything too special so what's going in on your pocket I wonder I just wonder if when Samsung was looking at this particular problem if they were like oh we need to address that first it has to close in on itself because of durability now granted people who he's a luxury phone yeah like I was I was telling Jack earlier that this belongs in a suit pocket or something you know yeah you see this is fancy seeing executive pulling that thing out so maybe that's not such an issue but in a typical dusty jean pocket that plastic display I'm real concerned about long-term if it were folded on the outside now I can't I can't say for certain because I haven't played with the Huawei device okay so I can't say for certain I got to get that in hand before I address it or compare them directly okay but it's just an area of concern that I didn't expect to come up and then having this in hand I was like oh that could be potentially an issue and and the other issue is these are big right because they Bend you have a much fatter device than you tip about double double is fat and so when I looked at the small display I realized well by going with something so narrow you you truly have one-handed operation in a pinch because like I said you're compelled to pop open the bigger display anyways it's almost like this one doesn't try to pretend that it's a substitute for a flagship 20:19 smartphone yeah it's just like look one-handed bang out a text or whatever and move on with your life the the interesting that thing that's happened to me is like I feel like I could live without this life you know at the front I feel like this is a pocket laptop sort of case the question the big question that everyone asks it's the it's the wrong question they're asking is it worth it but I think the real question that I would say is like did they price this right did Samsung price this thing appropriately in your opinion if they're going to be able to do it they're going to have to have a price tag to match the difficulty in the manufacturing process if everybody went out to buy one of these things tomorrow I'm not sure they could meet demand oh no way yeah there's it's just this is you look at a typical smartphone I don't have any on the table right I don't if you have yours I mean you're looking at a solid-state kind of a manufacturing process it's like I mean I don't know if you've ever been in a smartphone manufacturing facility but it's all machine a lot of it and even where there are people it's very automated almost their activities are sort of automated their involvement in their part of the process yeah it's clearly defined when you have moving components it's a totally different ball really when you have any kind mechanical component like this hinge first labor now it's just it's just more difficult to manufacture at scale at Madison to test for I mean you think about the Quality Assurance on something like this he got a bend it what was will telling me how many times is this rated to bend a hundred thousand times and that so that gives you a hundred four five years of a hundred a hundred folds per day each day for five years is what it's rated for now I don't know if that's impressive or not really depends on how long you expect to hold on to this thing yeah but like moving parts just like people were saying with motorized cameras when a knotch talk started and whatnot it's moving parts are not ideal you try to eliminate them wherever possible and it's not just from a durability standpoint it's also from a manufacturing standpoint it introduces more potential for for failure for error so like you said I don't know that it's so much about them trying to find a price point that compels the the mass public to purchase it yes I think it's the price point is intentionally where it is to kind of imply like this is the bleeding edge for now it's for a select group of people and I think yeah even at nineteen eighty I think they're gonna have trouble keeping these things on the Shelf really I do as expensive as it is because there's a thing that this thing has they can't really be related one to one to the rest of the smartphone market screen okay yeah but what I mean it is a factor where it's a throwback all the way to the original iPhone as far as I can tell it felt special to hold that thing exactly and you go to public they're holding it are you there's that feeling of like I'm I'm someone special that's the piece and also also people coming up to you and being like hey what is the thing that you're holding there because the weird thing about technology as much as its serving a purpose and a function and it does a task whatever you ask it to do yeah it also has increasingly become this symbol of cultural connectivity awareness this kind of like signal to everyone else that you're like you're up on the culture if you're aware of the latest when you pull this thing out it says something about what you're interested in immediately like any other smartphone can't really do there's something about this whole thing that makes every other phone I've ever used feel like I have the wrong product yeah and waited yeah yeah that's the I mean I think there are these kind of movements that happen he's uh innovations I guess that take place where it becomes obvious that there's some there's there's something happening it's almost you can't pinpoint it well when something just feels futuristic yeah I really think this is okay Lou Dave we're gonna sign out there you have it cool okay here we go Wow this just in some galaxies folder view phones are breaking after a couple days of use this week on whose review unit was it CNBC Bloomberg and the verge are sharing screen issues and dense ooh that looks nasty