Gadgetory

so we got some new footage here I think it's important I think it's interesting you guys were hitting me up on Twitter you wanted my opinion on this and so here you have it it's kind of what I do I break it down I tell you what I'm seeing what I'm thinking we've got some fresh footage some user-generated content about the Samsung Galaxy fold this is what's been sent to me once again I got the link via Twitter pause it right there will pause it right there and you'll like back up a little bit back up a tiny bit just before the the butterfly comes on the screen yeah somewhere right there right that'll do this guy has managed to get his hands on a galaxy fold somehow f900 you AT&T version who knows how it seems like he's in Vietnam based on you know I looked up his Facebook page and it seems like he's got some kind of a smartphone repair shop in Vietnam he put his whatsapp as well as his Facebook page right plastered on the video so I mean he must be getting bombarded right now did he even know he did he even know he was gonna get all this attention posting a phone that's not even close to being out yet nonetheless that's not what you care about what you care about is this image right here in the recent galaxy fold video I showed you the clips that Samsung put out and there was a question that I had that you had that will had that everyone oldest had the question about whether or not the Galaxy fold would show a crease down the center the center line where it folded because we had more comprehensive out of perfect condition footage of the mate X from Huawei and that thing you could see the crease in it people were worried they were concerned how much of an eyesore but then when we got the extra footage from Samsung on a galaxy full we didn't see that same crease we didn't envision that problem and people were speculating all over the place how did they do it how is there no crease how can we not see the actual fold on the fold within the OLED display so now that we have this imperfect user-generated footage you see a strong crease in there I mean if you examine this footage you see this this crease down the center and I can't say I'm surprised I guess I just was hopeful that Samsung's footage wasn't just the perfect conditions but instead they found a way to at least make the crease insignificant in real life but it turns out it was just magic with their production because if this clip is real and it looks very real then this seam this crease is gonna be a part of your life no matter which folding phone you happen to choose now maybe this is amplified by this guy's light source you can see this kind of like it looks like an overhead a more typical light source and the fact that he's got a dark display it looks it looks like a black background so you know how that works it kind of you know you illuminate the glass a little bit more if you had a bright white backdrop like Samsung had in their video and a dude scrolling Instagram and such maybe this is less prominent but in this guy's clip it looks prominent it looks obvious and I guess it's just not ideal it's not what we had hoped for nonetheless it doesn't seem to alter the functionality if you roll the clip here will you'll see the dude not only shows off the phone but he goes ahead and unlocks it as well like a factory unlock because I guess that's maybe his business the business that the guys in who posted his clip or at least put his contact info maybe the dude who put the contact info doesn't even have the device but got the clip from somewhere else who knows here you can see the device being handled for the first time a user-generated clip an individual other than a Samsung employee has this thing in their hands and they're showing it off you can see oh that was weird on the back of it it's got some kind of test number SBP 2 3 4 0 m-maybe this is not a commercial item maybe this could change with the with the retail release I kind of doubt that to be honest I was speculating at least to myself I was thinking that there's going to be some kind of a crease once we get more details once we get more images and of course once people get it in their hands I kind of assumed that would be the case so I'm thinking this is a real device or at least a close to production device but nonetheless this is I guess the best look we've had at it because the origin is not Samsung so it's not being shown off strictly to look pretty instead this is a regular human being showing it off and going ahead and unlocking it there's the crease again in that particular footage there's a white background and now you don't see the crease now it's up to you does this change your opinion of the device does it does it make you less excited because obviously Samsung didn't want to show it off in this particular fashion obviously they would they would go through whatever production techniques necessary to diminish the appearance of the fold in fact their background kind of does so on its own with the butterfly wings Samsung cannot be happy about this clip because I must not be the only one getting hit up on Twitter and so on people being like the fold has a crease it has a seam Liu you need to know this and I suppose it's just important to get this information out there because I did address the crease at least on the mate X and I didn't do so on the Galaxy fold just because we didn't know based on the footage we had seen so for this for the time being folding phones will have creases they will have seams they won't be perfect they won't be completely magical there's still certain physical constraints when it comes to folding a display this is that constraint does it affect your enthusiasm will you buy it won't you are you jaded now did you hope for more or is this what you expected are you cool with it are you a future galaxy fold owner nonetheless there's a seam there's a crease the Galaxy fold it's practically a paper airplane