00:06so in new york right now and this is the brand new samsung galaxy z fold 7 as well as
00:11the flip
00:117 but this will be your first look at what the box looks like so you can kind of see
00:15a new design
00:16this is also the first time we are getting a big change in terms of the overall design so quickly
00:21you'll take a quick look around it's pretty standard and on the inside the fold is sitting
00:26on top this is actually their hero colorway in shadow blue and on the back this is where the
00:31rest of the user manuals warranty info as well as just the usb-c cable live that's pretty much it
00:36for
00:36that side and underneath you have the actual phone itself and like i said this is the hero colorway
00:43so it does come in three color options so the shadow blue it comes in jet black silver shadow as
00:48well as
00:49the online exclusive which i think is super unique this year it's called mint so if any of you are
00:53like big porsche fans there's like a pts color called mint the same color if you could get
00:58a mint phone with a mint like gt3rs we're going off topic that would be pretty dope but let me
01:04know what
01:05your favorite color option is and you can actually see from the first time looking at the device the
01:09big thing is the actual form factor so it has finally gotten way thinner and way more of a usable
01:15front cover screen so 6.5 inches 2520 by 1080 it's dynamic amoled 2x and it has a more usable
01:22form
01:22factor so when you're actually using it for the majority of the time i would say for most folding
01:27phones when you're just like day-to-day checking regular apps when you're browsing when you're
01:32checking the phone for the first time in the day for example you're on the now brief you're going
01:35through the settings you're going through the basic ui when you're using the camera as an example
01:39there are very few times when you open up the actual phone launch the camera app i know that we
01:44did
01:44some testing when we were at the actual event the reality is most of the time you are not using
01:49it
01:49like this unless maybe you're my parents that like to shoot like photos off of like a tablet
01:54don't be that person the main reason why you're using this when it's open in this warm factor
01:59in my opinion is to watch content if you have a different method of why you have the main screen
02:05open please let me know i'd love to hear other use cases but when you're watching youtube when you're
02:09watching actual media that's when you're going to use the larger display but we'll get to that in a
02:13second like i said the big changes around this is the actual form factor so now it's 26% thinner
02:19than the fold six and as a reference the s25 ultra their flagship it's a candy bar style phone
02:23that is 8.2 millimeter so it's almost the same thickness as a regular phone but obviously this
02:29folds and the biggest thing that i would say with samsung folding devices so if you've seen what
02:34other players have on the market i'm looking at you know honor devices i'm looking at oppo devices
02:39their foldables have always been thinner and those devices aren't even available in north american
02:44markets you'd have to buy them resale or off of ebay or something finally samsung has stepped
02:49up and have the biggest change to the overall form factor and i can say that this is in line
02:54with
02:54those if not even better so it actually has a brand new hinge mechanism so it's called their armor flex
02:59hinge it has a water droplet design it has a multi-rail structure it is made out of aluminum but
03:04does
03:04have a grade 4 titanium lattice and actually the phone is in fact thinner but the glass is 50%
03:10thicker
03:10to make it more durable and i'd say the majority of people unless like you're a really big techie and
03:15you've seen some of those other phones holding this folding device in hand it feels really special
03:19and it is a welcome welcome design change i will say one thing i'll talk about the camera in a
03:25second
03:25definitely grab a case for it because the camera module actually sticks out a bit further now because
03:30the device is thinner when you put this like flat on a surface there is like a lot a lot
03:36of noticeable
03:36wobble on it another thing which i noticed it's just gotten slightly slimmer which is a welcome design
03:42is the actual bezels those have shrunk down in size both on the cover display as well on the inside
03:48so this is the main display which has also gotten larger it's now eight inches at 2184 by 1968 so
03:54it's
03:5411 larger than the full six so when you watch that immersive content i feel like you don't need to
04:00travel
04:00anymore or use two different devices like having a phone and a tablet if you're getting this device
04:05that's because you want to eliminate one of those extra devices and with that new hinge mechanism i will say
04:11the crease in the middle becomes less noticeable so even when you're shining this like at direct
04:16sunlight we're in my hotel room right now i can barely see that crease in the middle which is
04:21really really nice once again a very welcome update so the next big change comes to the camera system on
04:27the back so essentially think of this as the s25 ultra or at least the main camera so that's that
04:32same
04:32200 megapixel sensor it's now just being redesigned to be a bit thinner because the device is so thin
04:38but unfortunately for the ultra wide that's only 12 megapixels and the telephoto is still 10 which is
04:43similar to what they had last year they have made improvements to the visual engine to make some of
04:48these shots a bit better i'll test that out a bit more i was taking a couple photos during my
04:52hands-on
04:52it's just unfortunate that samsung made the update to the main camera which in reality it's the one that
04:57you use most of the time why couldn't we have a 50 megapixel ultra wide 50 megapixel telephoto maybe it
05:02has
05:02something to do with how thin the device is once again i'm not too sure but i'll post some sample
05:07shots
05:07with my full review but i guess the big thing with a thinner device it's usually the battery that
05:12suffers thankfully that hasn't changed it's still 4400 milliamps unfortunately no mention of the
05:16silicon carbon battery which a lot of other devices have but maybe that will be an upgrade next year
05:21what is a big change though is i guess the camera so you can see that that's actually a little
05:26front camera cutout before we always had that camera underneath the display and that always i found
05:33took ambient light from the display it was never really that good so now it is at 2.5 times
05:39clear
05:39it thinks i'm taking a selfie because it has that little activation now with the wave and you get
05:43100 degrees of actual view so it's way better and i always thought that the under display camera was
05:50like a clever piece of tech it's just tough when a camera's underneath you'll obviously always get
05:55that light from the display so i'm glad to see that they just made it just a bit more practical
06:00last but not least with every samsung device with every device nowadays you have to chat about ai so
06:05once again very similar ai features to what they announced at their flagship from the s25 all of
06:11those ai features that have been announced have now been enhanced will you use every single one of
06:16those ai features every single time obviously not like how many times are you going to turn photos
06:21that you take into cartoons i did it for a couple demos it's worth a laugh it's fine austin was
06:26a big
06:26good sport about it but i will say the generative ai on samsung devices is some of the best that
06:31i've
06:31seen for say removing things from the background i took a pretty complex photo with a bunch of
06:36different people in it it was able to handle that surprisingly well and for my iphone as an example
06:40that has like the worst generative ai i would say out of any device it would struggle so much i
06:46really
06:46like what samsung is doing with their ai systems another one that i really like actually is their audio
06:51eraser so when you take a clip you can kind of choose which audio to remove so whether you
06:56have background noise whether you have wind noise you can remove voices from it and you can select
07:00that all within the editing app within the actual gallery so that's really easy intuitive if you're
07:05a content creator i think it works well and as a little bonus audio eraser is available through other
07:10system apps as well and this is actually the first galaxy phone running android 16 it's running one ui 8
07:17which is you know one of my favorite android skins it isn't technically like stock but i do think
07:21once again samsung have gotten way better at having less clutter more customization options
07:26smoother animations so in all it is definitely like a welcome upgrade i know that this video is all
07:32around the folding device i haven't made one separately around the flip 7 i did take a look at this
07:37the biggest changes coming to this is actually the cover screen which has gotten larger which
07:42technically samsung calls out of their flex window so you can see it right here it covers the entire
07:46front screen so it's 4.1 inches versus the 3.4 from before you can actually do a lot more
07:51on this
07:52so you can launch the now brief you can interact with the phone and just like say the fold 7
07:57where
07:57you use it maybe most of the time when it's folded up you can now use this most of the
08:01time when it's
08:02flipped down when it's flipped in obviously it still has that great flip mechanism if you are like a true
08:08like flipping phone fan this is still one of the best ones that you can get this one does come
08:12in the
08:12three color options so the shadow blue similar to or i guess blue shadow then the fold 7 also coral
08:19red and jet black and they still have that mint exclusive so that was pretty much my first look
08:24unboxing at the brand new samsung galaxy z fold z fold 7 however you want to call it let me
08:30know what
08:30you want covered in my full review i'll be here in new york for the next couple days maybe i
08:34can take
08:34some photos with it convince mkbht to be more in my footage shameless plug let me know if you're
08:41pumped to grab one of these now i guess like samsung has the three different options in their
08:46like flagship or high costing bracket and before we end off the video this phone does cost a lot so
08:52canadian pricing which i've got $2,500 that's for 256 gigs obviously the exact price will be on screen
09:01it's similar to what we've seen from the galaxy z fold 6 am i surprised i mean i'm happy that
09:07we didn't
09:07get a price bump it still commands a very high price but now you've got this the s25 edge and
09:13the
09:13s25 ultra to pick so across all three of those i'm curious which of the devices that you would pick
09:19obviously if you want a foldable device there's only like one option but it is a nice design change i'm
09:25happy that it's gotten way thinner hope you guys enjoyed this one and i'll catch you in one of my
09:30next
09:30kids peace
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