Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - Worth it in 2021? (Real World Review) By Real World Review

This is the ultimate question: what phone should I buy? Clearly foldable might not be the best option, but they sure are interesting. Having reviewed the Motorola racer, we move on to the other foldable in this form factor the Samsung z-flip. So let's talk about this phone because there's lots to talk about and near the end. I will explain how I feel about foldable and what you should consider, but back to the question at hand, should you buy the Samsung Galaxy z flip, whether it's the LTE or 5g version in 2021, hello, everyone? This is Matt from real world review check out the social media listed above. If you want to talk tech and subscribe, if you want to continue watching tech, let's get started initially when I saw this phone and compared it to the Motorola racer. The first thing I wondered is which one has a better screen well easily.

The inside screen is better than the racer, while the racer destroys this phone. With the outer display, you open up the superior hinge which I'll talk about that in a minute, and you're exposed to this large almost uninterrupted display. This is a 6.7 inch, 1080p, obviously flexible OLED display with a pixel density of 425 pixels per inch. There is a hole punch for the front camera, but besides that, the screen is actually really nice. You have plastic body bezels, because the screen is plastic, but the screen extends extremely close to those plastic pieces making the screen as big as possible.

It is a 21.9 by 9 screen ratio which makes viewing cinema contact look amazing, but the average 16 by 9 or even 18 by 9 video on YouTube, looks a little small, but at least it makes the front camera less noticeable. This phone does have ultra-thin glass, but we know that this makes no sense really seeing that tests show that the top layer is plastic. While there is glass right under it, glass that you'll never touch but plastic, that you'll scratch pretty much just by looking at it. So you definitely want to put a screen protector on this one, but even then good luck. The nice thing is that the fingerprint scanner is not in the screen, and it's actually in the power button, which is an upside for people.

Like me, but the main focus of the screen is really the image which actually has a higher pixel density when compared to the Samsung, z-fold, 2 or Motorola racer, but lacks a high refresh rate or hdr10 plus support like the former. This is only a 60hz display, but it actually doesn't look that bad without that high refresh rate. Lastly, there is a screen on the outside, but honestly it's really pointless, it's good for showing whether you have notifications or the time, but oddly there's no always on display. Oh, by the way the inside screen does have an always on display, as well as double tap to wake and sleep, but folding. The phone makes these features kind of pointless.

This is a small 1.1 inch, 112, poled screen that shows a very small amount of text. Even an unknown number won't show up all the way until it starts scrolling, but this does offer a strange viewfinder for the rear cameras. Now, here's where the phone gets interesting and differs from whether we're talking about the LTE or 5g version, I personally have the LTE version, which is pretty much the same as a 5g phone, but there are a few main differences like added LTE bands. Obviously 5g support a snapdragon, 865 plus chips, a very slightly larger hinge, Wi-Fi 6 and arguably better color options. Besides that both flips are powered by plus model processors, this one being a snapdragon, 855 plus, and they're, both paired with 8 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of non-expandable storage.

Then, to power the phone you have a dual cell, 3 300 William battery, but unfortunately this doesn't give you superfast charging just fast wireless charging at something like 10 plus watts. Yes, this is what Samsung says. While fast wired charging only goes up to 15 watts, this has to be one of the slowest charging phones that tops the 1000 price point, especially when phones like the Samsung a20 support the same charging speed at a much lower cost, either way the battery lasts a day fairly easily, and in no way will last you two days even with light usage. This phone does support reverse wireless charging, but clearly this is aimed for smaller devices on the bottom of the phone. Obviously we get an USB port like we were talking about with the charging speeds, along with only one loudspeaker.

Yes, on a phone that costs over a thousand dollars in portrait mode, the speaker is actually fine, it's not that bad, but in landscape mode you start to hate the choice that Samsung made. Lastly, we have the superior hinge, which honestly, I kind of had mixed feelings about now. This is the same hinge design that we get in the z-fold 2, which honestly I love, but in this shape it seems less useful, still feels more durable than the Motorola racer hinge, but it can make opening the phone up feel kind of weird. Also. I can tell that this hinge is starting to wear out, seeing that the phone is almost a year old, this one in particular.

So that's something to consider still. It is a very versatile hinge that is good for things. I'm honestly not really sure what the point of the hinge is, but it is kind of fun to fidget with it could be good for some time-lapse, video or, if you're doing night shots actually, especially if you figure out a way to get macrophotography working on this phone. Overall, we get three cameras on this phone and only one is focusable, and only one has optical image stabilization. Just like the Samsung z-fold 2.

They are not the top of the line cameras, but they do work. The internal one is a 10 megapixel fixed focus camera, but it is capable of capturing some nice shots as well as 4k 60 frames per second video, which overall isn't that bad. But the main focus is the outer cameras, both being 12 megapixels, sensors, one being an ultra-wide and the other being a standard wide angle. Sensor, shots come out looking amazing as usual, but this phone does carry the Samsung ultra price tag, but we're still left with Samsung s10e cameras, not to mention the front. Camera is not focusable.

So technically the s10e has better cameras in theory overall they're, not the worst, but we still get a camera bump on the outside like come on either way, you will not be disappointed with what these sensors are able to produce, which is nice same thing, with the video capabilities maxing out at 4k 60 frames per second, my favorite. Overall, this phone has cameras which is better than having less sensors and definitely better than phones like the Motorola racer, and it's honestly kind of nice that they did somewhat focus on the cameras. But this clearly isn't the main reason you buy. This phone now this phone isn't perfect. Obviously, if you think about all the stuff, I said you can clearly see why this is not the most recommended phone, even with the 5g version fixing some issues that weren't really issues in the first place.

The processor isn't that bad, but still performance, does kind of drop a little on the LTE version, which I assume the 5g version fixes. Really. The question is: why even have this phone often I would miss phone calls mainly because I keep my phone on vibrate most of the time, but also because this phone doesn't really have a screen. When closed, I mean it does, but only when you check it, I heavily rely on the always on display on most phones. So when this phone doesn't have anything not even like a small light, it does get kind of annoying.

You have to move the phone or lift the phone up or push the power button to get the screen to light up. So it kind of feels useless, especially seeing that an always-on display would make more sense. Also, the hinge design is nice, but this phone should be able to be opened with one-handed usage and often that requires either extra strength or kind of throwing the phone with one hand, because the hinge is so sturdy, but at least you can close the phone with one hand. Then we have things that we talked about, like the charging, speed, speaker, setup, decent cameras and overall, just the point of this phone. Really you pay for the fun factor when phones like the Samsung, s20 or s21 would be much better phones with better batteries and cameras, but lacking the originality of this phone.

But something to think about is that those phones are almost half the price of the z flips. Overall, let's go over foldable in general, mainly the ones with the normal flip design. Like this, like I said, there are really only four phones out right now, but really only two models: the Motorola racer LTE and 5g version and the same thing for Samsung, the z-flip and z-flip 5g. For me, I will say this: we are given some high-end things like 256 gigabytes of memory and fast or fast dish. Processors, but all the money is going into average screens that fold, giving you a crease or even multiple creases, not to mention making it stupid difficult to install screen protectors.

I mean most of these screens cost about six hundred dollars just for the part, whereas the ultra phones cost about three hundred dollars for the part. So clearly, if you're looking for a good screen, these foldable phones would be horrible options. But the biggest question for me is why these phones even have to exist. The racer makes sense for nostalgia reasons, but the z-flip doesn't really make sense to me. The racer goes from a notification screen to a phone while the z-flip goes from a pager to a phone, but devices like the z-fold 2 go from a phone to a mini tablet.

This is the design that you really want and that's pretty much how I feel about the racer in z-flip, especially when it's possible for me to go an entire day on the z-fold 2, without even opening up the phone. I could just use the outside screen and everything just works. So should you buy foldable? Maybe should you buy the Samsung z-fold, possibly, but only if you get the 5g version once you get over the foldable factor, this really is just kind of an overpriced phone sure there are premium aspects to it, but I am struggling to find a reason to even have a foldable phone, especially when it's thicker than most phones when folded. This is a nice phone. Obviously, but I feel like this form factor is not the one that's going to live on and the one that will is going to be the phone to tablet form factor, not this notification to phone design and that's my review of the Samsung z flip series, as well as my feelings on all the flip top foldable as of 2021.

But what do you think about this? Is this design more useful than I think it is? Let me know in the social listed above and as always, thanks for watching.

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