Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 – Real Day In The Life Review!”.
Hey buddy, oh you see the lenses yeah, the full four has three lenses. You counted them yeah, so we actually had some family over today and while the kids were able to play with each other, i caught up a bit with social media and what’s going on with the basketball world, so a bit of youtube too you’ll be seeing more Of the little things i do throughout this video as we spend the day with the phone, so we test out all the cool features. Cameras see how the battery life holds up as well as what it’s like to just use the phone for everyday use, all right. So now i got ta get ready to go to the studio, but i’m like starving.
I haven’t had breakfast yet so i shouldn’t be doing this, but you boys can have a little bit of cereal yeah and i’m trying to stay away from sweets and whatnot. But i’m gon na have some cereal before i go to work, uh right now we’re using the front-facing camera on the z-fold four and uh for a camera that is hidden behind the display. This is what you get. I don’t know if you guys can see it, but the cereal collection up there is kind of mad. You guys can’t even imagine i’m nuts all right y’all, so i’m on my way to the studio.
Now it’s actually 11 12.. Is this slipping i’m using that little tripod feature to record it’s actually 11 12 and we’ve got like 71 battery life left with an hour and 20 minutes of screen on time, so batteries holding up but yeah i’ve got some uh calls to make. Once i get into the studio, get on some conference calls that i’m shooting a video and then i’m gon na bolt out of the studio so that we can go ahead and hang out with the boys again, because today i think we’re going to the zoo, which Should be a great opportunity to really test out these cameras, alright guys so in the studio been here for a little bit now i had to jump on a conference call. I realized we haven’t spoken about the actual feel of this thing.
What’S it look like what it’s all about now, if you know samsung and their fold series uh you’ve seen this before with this phone, you have an exterior display and then you can of course open it up, and then you now get a much larger display. The first, the one up front is 6.2 inches. This is 7.6 but of course, it’s much wider compared to the narrower display in the front. It’S pretty much the same experience as last generation.
Honestly, i almost thought this was the exact same body until i tried to put a case on it. I think they might have moved the camera bump ever so slightly uh, because the case wouldn’t fit around the camera section same. Oh really, yeah! No! It’S the same. It’S still there yeah when you’re using it, and you don’t have light shining directly on it.
You don’t really notice it, but with a little bit of light, you’ll notice it. But if you use this for extended periods of time, you kind of forget that it exists kind of like the notch. You just kind of forget that it’s there and you just use it as is now what they did change in here. Jay is supposed to be the under screen.
Front-Facing camera. Let’S see, let’s see if we can uh pull up a game. Oh damn! That’S that old-school! Capcom jingle! Oh, that’s! That’S pretty good! Just let me put the volume down. Can you find the the punch out kevin real, quick where’s, the camera real quick, you failed, but if you actually look for it, i really don’t say it it’s right here.
Oh that’s, crazy! Yeah! This is yeah, so they improved. That looks really good. Now it’s actually pretty surprising, but it looks great it’s kind of interesting that it has two front facing cameras one over here and one over there. They had to last them yeah yeah.
Last time they had the two uh. They are different quality, though uh. This one is a 10 megapixel shooter, while this one’s just a four megapixel, so you’re not going to get that. You know that crazier quality from this guy, but you know it does its job.
If you want to use it to like capture some content like i did earlier, you got like a built-in tripod, so you got that and of course you know like the standard everyday stuff, like a thick phone like this without a case right now, throwing it into The pocket you know it’s fine pulling it out is always pretty easy now. The only thing i don’t like is that you still got a bit of a gap. So when you throw this thing into your pocket, usually i know i’m, i end up with like a bunch of lint, so you can see around the edges and whatnot there’s lint everywhere, and this is like a the texture of this display holds onto the lint a Bit more than like your standard gorilla glass phone, so that part is a little annoying, because i find myself like dusting it off quite a bit now when it comes to actually using this thing like i’ve, it’s actually grown on me quite a bit compared to when I first got introduced to the fold series. I found myself more and more comfortable, i guess with using it in this way.
So when it’s closed up, i feel like i actually like the experience here, because it’s really easy to one hand this uh display it’s easy to just grab everything and when i want to like you know up the experience, just you know pop it open, usually pop It open when i want to watch my youtube content, that kind of stuff: that’s when it really feels appropriate. Now one part of the experience that’s a little bit different kind of comes from the software side of things once you get into like an application or something you’ve got like this taskbar now at the bottom. So all the applications that you had over here they now stay on screen. When you go into another app, so yeah you do get access to that now.
I think that’s a nice addition, especially you know you got that giant display. Um might as well take advantage of it and throw a little extra down there, not really yeah the multi. You know i really just i don’t. I know it can do it like.
So if i want to swipe over here – and i wanted to do this, so this will open up youtube and the browser at the same time, i don’t know i don’t. I don’t ever find myself in the position where i’m like. I need to have these two apps side by side all the time. Let me know for all the fold users out there, or just maybe android users in general, who have phones that support multitasking, how many of you actually use it. For me, a bigger display just means bigger content. The only phone where i feel like i like to multitask is the surf: the windows, the surface phone that feels like two legitimate screens multitasking.
There feels a lot better. Would you use a foldable phone? Dom? Not your thing hold it up and it comes reminded. It reminds me of like a ds.
Oh, but i mean didn’t people port, like nintendo ds games onto this, i feel like that’s the thing kevin. You should know this yeah, it’s it’s the perfect device for that kind of thing for sure all right y’all. So we just got back home and it is time for us to uh.
Instead of going to the zoo, we’re gon na blow up our bounce house and uh, the kids will play in the bounce house should be able to get some good photos there. Lots of callers. Let’S make that happen all right.
So, as you can see, the bounce house is ready. It is blown up and is a perfect time to get some uh footage of the kids here they going nuts now, even though this doesn’t have all the lenses that like something like the s22 ultra, has still got the main three ultra wide wide and telephoto. Let’S get some shots, i’m gon na go ultra wide austin.
You fell buddy jump over here. Give me five. Give me five jump over here. Come on come on come on, come on, oh, come on buddy! Ah, there we go jj, give me five buddy.
Ah, that’s what i’m talking about now. One thing i always like with the fold is: you cannot beat the viewfinder. You can get a massive screen to see. What’S going on, oh jay, hold it hold it hold it, i’m going to try something all right. Take off the shoes real quick, can i do it? Can i do it? Can i do it wait? What just happened, who i’m you tripped over the court? The kids bounce house is deflated.
Wait. The kids are like the poor, kids. Okay, don’t worry dad saved the day, we’re back austin’s like get me out of here.
Oh you know what i just did video, but i got ta get some photos here. Get back in there get back in there, careful hey, you can pack in there too, get back in there. Meanwhile cookie’s dying to get in. I don’t know if you noticed that austin, where are you going get back in there, get back in there buddy, where you trying to go? What do you want out here? You wanted jj jj is inside want to go back to jj. So what do you want to do out here? Welcome what blue car yeah that one, okay, probably get some nice shots on that too [ Applause, ], [ Applause, ] now funny enough! My cousin, michael over here, has the z-fold three. So if you’re curious about the quality difference between the two phones, if there’s a significant upgrade, let’s test it out right now, austin you want to take a picture. No okay, cookie austin. Can i take a picture of you. Yeah.
Okay, stand right, stand right here, buddy all right, all right, austin, okay, that’s wild! This is way sharper on the fold. Four yeah look at his hair. His face.
Look how much softer it looks over here. Jj! You want to take a picture. All right. Buddy, come on over all right stand up. Give me a nice smile. Can you give me a thumbs up? Can you clap for me jj? Oh, look at that shot.
Austin come take one more picture for me, buddy, okay. I think we got that so it auto selected. I saw that it had the same shot.
I guess it selected the best version from the stills that it captured and it picked a completely different look. Oh man, i feel like it’s much sharper and detailed on the z-fold four. I feel like there’s more detail on the z-fold four man.
Now it’s on maximum screen brightness here, but i think the difference here is that we might just have a brighter display on the z-fold four so where this maxes out this goes a lot higher, not to mention this has a feature that we saw on the s22 Ultra, where you can go in max the brightness and add extra brightness, so you can really see with no problem while you’re outside one of the most underrated features of the new phones that samsung dropped. I absolutely love it. It helps so much when you’re outside and if you just are a brightness freak like i am you really enjoy so if you’re curious about the difference in quality between the selfie cam, the exterior and the interior, so you can look at my face here.
This is the exterior selfie. I mean it gets the job done if you just need a quick selfie, but i don’t see why you would go for that over over this one, all right y’all, so we are back inside. I want to get some of the footage and pictures that we shot on michael’s phone over mine and this is actually going to be the first time i’m using the quick share feature between galaxy devices, so it’s kind of like airdrop but for galaxy devices.
So, let’s see how it works, you know i got them both turned on now. My phone is showing up right here. I got nine files tap that really quick said it’s connecting okay accept sending receiving okay. That was really quick and simple. Why don’t people talk about that? More that’s right! Austin, the ball pit yeah! I just sent the pictures over of the bunk pit. Did you have fun in the ball pit yeah yeah red light green light? I saw the red light on the camera jay’s like how do you understand them, so we had a really fun day with the phone and my overall experience with it over the last few weeks have been pretty positive.
I’Ve been feeling really comfortable using it. While it’s closed, which makes having access to the bigger screen feel like a bonus, i’m also glad they made some improvements to the camera, but unless you’re, comparing it side by side, you might not notice it if you’re upgrading from the previous models photos do look great, Though, but like with most samsung phones, the exposure can be bumped up a little higher than i’d like when taking indoor shots of people, and obviously this comes with flagship specs, so you’ll be able to do just about anything. You want with this and having that kind of power is necessary, especially if you want to use the big screen to do things like multitasking, even gaming on it was pretty good for me, although not all games will support the slightly odd aspect, ratio of both screens, Which is by no means a big deal and battery life has been pretty solid, especially considering we’ve been jumping between two screens, with one being really big, so no real complaints there. Overall, i got ta say guys. I like this phone a lot. I’Ve been getting way more used to it than i expected, and i think it’s worth trying out if you want to switch up from the normal smartphones we’ve been seeing over the years.
I do wish, at this price point, that you got all the cameras that the s22 ultra has or even the s pen, since it makes so much sense on a device like this, but at least the pen is compatible. But what are your thoughts on this phone? Guys for those of you who picked it up sound off with your experience in the comments below you might be able to help someone else who’s trying to decide until the next one guys it’s your average consumer peace .