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this is the Samsung Galaxy fold one of the most unique devices money can buy and also a completely new form factor that's out to challenge smartphones as we know them whether its bold enough to achieve that premises still a little too hard to predict but the last 48 hours have taught me a lot I'm high metal you out out with pocket now let's talk about the Samsung Galaxy fold in our honeymoon phase for details on specification Zoar why this product exists I would highly recommend you watch our hands-on video that shed some more lights this video is more our first impressions which have been very interesting and really it begins with the unboxing experience those of you looking for a more detailed video head on over to our pocket now I GT B where this video plays in its full glory our packaging was a bit fancier in its presentation but you should be getting the same internal product box that we received this means you will be getting the galaxy fold front and center and under it you will be getting a protective case made of Kevlar though there are some leather variants already shown in the Samsung store under that you have Samsung's fast adaptive charger that's already kind of dated when compared to newer standards a USB OTG adapter a pair of galaxy buds which makes sense given the price and the small box inside includes a USB a 2 USBC cable for charging and replacement tips for the buds let's remove this plastic for old times sake oh yeah setting it up for the first time is actually not as different as I expected you're required to open the full to go through the setup process but then everything looks nearly the same as if you were setting up a Galaxy S 10 you're given the option to restore from an old device I used my s10 plus expecting Wireless restore to work well as wired but it didn't I had to go through the whole process of restoring from a Google backup and I couldn't go back to start over sadly it then prompts you for security which I decided to go for the more secure fingerprint scanner sign in to your Samsung Account and then you're given tips on how to get app continuity to work before you're sent to the home screen sadly my launcher folders weren't ported so I reverted to Smart Switch to get the job done for my Galaxy S 10 plus and voila your Galaxy fold is ready and honestly I don't think I've ever taken so long to film a first impressions video but it's just that the last 48 hours have taught me so much now the positive front if you like one UI on the Galaxy S 10 which I do then you'll feel right at home here nearly the same animations and the same experience overall has been brought to the Galaxy fold Samsung and Google clearly work hard on having the foldable experience feel very familiar that said let's jump into a section that I'd like to call the interesting things about the Galaxy fold which are a few and it really starts with the hardware build seriously it feels like two phone stacked together when closed and almost like a tablet when open there is some minor give if you grip it when closed and also while open because it's full of moving parts so I don't call that a problem third this is not a pocket friendly device so unless you like blue jeans I might recommend you look for a holster though I can't remember the last time I saw one of those on sale fourth you already saw the cases on the internet of people breaking the display there is a polymer protecting it you should not remove it you should not place a screen protector on top of it so far my device is working well I'll keep you posted if something goes wrong and for those of you complaining about the crease stay away from dark mode a white background will hide it better I honestly don't complain this is a foldable and like a book for things that fold you kind of need a crease it comes with the territory now when it comes to the software the first interesting thing is the separate approach to the displays both inside and out the cover display seriously feels like more a crutch than anything you may hear four point six inches diagonal but the screen is so tall that you won't find it useful for more than the basic things and then there is the fact that the software has two launchers that only work together in certain things so for example your wallpaper won't be the same outside than in if you create folders inside they won't work outside which I find to be the worse and then app continuity works cool from the outside end then if you want to do the opposite certain apps like Twitter will just relaunch and not work the only thing that I noticed mirrors is your selection of whether you want the app tray or not another thing is the interesting approach to the keyboard if you want to use the external display I highly recommend you go into settings and switch on the swipe functionality for the Samsung keyboard as that makes it easier to handle with one hand the Samsung keyboard also offers a very convenient split on the inside my problem and this is more a personal issue is that I'm not a fan of its multilingual support I decided to switch to Swift key because of this which works great on the inside as a split keyboard the problem is that it's not fully optimized yet for the fold so the cover display will also split the keyboard which you don't really need and speaking of fine tuning since the aspect ratio of the inner display is close to four by three some applications will behave weird Instagram stories for example won't be fully visible and even if apps like Chrome adapt between portrait and landscape apps like Gmail sadly won't but probably the most interesting question that I have for Samsung is why move the fingerprint scanner to the bixby button and not to the power button I mean I was so used to the awesome way you can unlock the Galaxy S 10 II but then on this phone it's not the same experience now the cool thing is that there is an option in settings to have the phone wake and unlock just by touching the fingerprint scanner do yourself a favor and enable this on day one though to switch it off you will have to use the power button now a positive interesting thing about this product is its battery life I mean the battery size is smaller and you have a larger screen than the galaxy s 10 plus but for some reason I'm able to get more than a day of battery life here and I'm not playing around with this product I am really taxing it to its maximum I'm not using any other phone as a crutch and seriously this phone performs far better than I expected hopefully it ages this way as well and then there are the missed opportunities this phone has six cameras but I feel that it doesn't really need all of them if you were to fully extend this phone this way you have a screen at the bottom the primary camera is at the top and this would have been the perfect selfie machine I don't really understand why Samsung didn't build this in hopefully they will bring it in a software update and I don't mind getting credit for it but then if we were to talk about the full-blown camera experience if you like the galaxy s 10 plus you will definitely love this phone you literally have the same versatility of the galaxy s 10 plus and I initially even thought there was some extra software tweaking or something I noticed more detail in the shots and better low-light performance but as it turns out it wasn't that the photos were better you simply have a bigger canvas to portray them pictures are more in-your-face and that's something a conventional phone just can't give you and I think that that's the best way to conclude my first impressions of the samsung galaxy fold do you need a foldable no are they cool oh you bet it is and this one in particular is awesome at first the experience was a little weird sort of like that time when I moved from a BlackBerry keyboard to a full glass display where the first couple of weeks were just different they were cumbersome but every day that I use this product it continues to grow on me we've got more videos planned for the Samsung Galaxy fold so let us know what you would like for us to compare or what questions you have for our next video and while you're at it make sure you follow us on social media subscribe to both our channels English for more videos like this one you'd follow me on twitter heidi underscore we did on Instagram but I mean it'll be data please give this video a thumbs up if you liked what you saw I'm hanging out we did I think so much for watching we'll see you on the next one