Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Has Samsung perfected the flip phone? – Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5”.
If you want to buy a folding phone in North America, your options are limited, but luckily Samsung keeps putting out new foldables, and today we are looking at the Samsung Galaxy Z, flip 5., just like flip 5.. It’S really fine. Otherwise, all you get in the box is a phone, no cable, no cable! Oh, oh, maybe silly me, there is a cable. No brick! We have a three foot. Long, cable! That’S not super high quality. I guess it feels fine, but not my favorite. We have our Sim popper and our start guide, but we don’t want any of this. We really just want the phone, because that’s where things get interesting, some people don’t get the flip phone lifestyle. If you’ve watched one of Riley’s videos covering the Oppo Find N2 Flip or the other flip phone that he did both times, he didn’t get why people would want a smaller phone because it makes the phone twice as thick.
But I am a passionate believer in the form factor, as I just think this looks and feels so good in the hand and the pocket sure it’s a little bit more bricky, but it also leaves so much more space for other things or if you carry a Purse or have small Pockets, it actually fits, which is great, but with that I haven’t actually been very impressed with Samsung’s offerings before I’d use. The Samsung Galaxy flip 4 and I found the battery life wasn’t great and that tiny outer screen really didn’t do it. For me, but maybe this is the phone to make me, go back to team Samsung. I actually use this Oppo fun and two flip for quite a while, because I have the taller screen and this one here will be hard to tell until to turn it on.
Has a massive cover screen, but first, let’s take a look around the outside of the phone. So on the right side we have our power button, fingerprint scanner combo and volume rocker on the top. We have nothing but a mic hole on the left. We have our SIM tray here, which is just a single nano SIM and on the bottom we have our Michaels USBC charging and speaker Grille, looking at design it’s very similar to the flip 4 other than the cover display, which, as you can see on the flip 4 is pretty darn small. You can see a small notification. You know change your song whatever, but on the flip 5 we now have a massive 3.4 inch display. It’S not quite the entire cover, like the Motorola Razer that just came out. That actually goes around the cameras themselves, but you’re not really getting any use of that screen there.
So I can understand why Samsung kind of just made a notch as we see when we turned it on other than that, it’s pretty hard to tell. But the glass looks a little bit more Frosty on the floor compared to the shiny glass of the flip 5. And you know the hinge looks a little different because this one now folds completely flat versus a tiny opening on the flip 5. Here and I have to say, I didn’t notice the gap on the flip 4 that much but having it completely sealed off means that there’s less chance of dust getting in there and scratching the inner screen.
So it is great to see – and I got ta say aesthetically I mean it just – looks – really really sharp going back to the inside of the phone. It is a 6.7 inch AMOLED display and it is up to 120 hertz and it’s an Adaptive sync as well. So it’ll vary depending on what you’re doing, which is great and it is ipx8 water resistant. So no dust resistance at all things might get in the hinge, but hey at least if this dunks in the pool you don’t have to worry about it. Since things are so similar to the flip 4, we may as well just get right into the software, but first let me tell you about our sponsor dbrand. If you think your phone looks boring, don’t worry.
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You can’t really tell where the screen ends and Begins. The screen in the front is 748 by 720 and it’s only 60 hertz, which is a little bit slower than again something like the Razer and it’s something we’re gon na be calling out quite a bit because that’s the only other flip you can really Buy in North America, but on the cover screen, I guess you don’t really need anything too crazy. As for what you can do, it has a bunch of widgets, so you can see we have a calendar, our weather, alarms and steps, which is great, and if we go all the way over to the left, we get our notifications. One thing I would have liked to see is a bit more like widgets are great, but I want to be able to use any app that I want without having to worry about whether Samsung’s made this custom thing on the cover screen. But I guess it is what it is heading on the inside of the phone we have our full HD Plus display. So it’s going to be, you know, 1080p, just expanded for this aspect. Ratio and, honestly, I think it’s fine again. A lot of people look for those high-end ones or even like the Sony phones that are 4K and those are a bit Overkill. First, phone of this size, you’re really to be pixel peep into you, know, notice that difference.
But for me I don’t really care and I’d rather have the battery life. As for bloatware and everything like that, it is a Samsung phone for better and worse. The downside is that you’re going to have doubles of a lot of apps you’re gon na have everything that comes standard with Google, as well as all the things that come standard with Samsung as four specs.
All all models come with eight gigs of RAM and they can either get 256 or 512 gigabytes of storage. This is not expandable so be aware. You might want to go for the larger one if you’re ever worried about it.
But to me I think 256 is going to be plenty for most people and it’s running the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for mobile platforms for Galaxy or something like that. It’S a special OC version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 that reportedly gets up to five percent. Better performance, I mean why not take it other than that.
It’S got Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth, 5.3, 5G sub millimeter wave all that kind of stuff and is running Android. 13.. I don’t know how many years of updates are promising.
I couldn’t actually find anything online, but something to be aware of I know sometimes Android updates can’t take a while to get to Samsung so again, you’re somebody who really really cares about that. Maybe wait till they make a statement on it or do some more research online. Now, let’s get right into Labs testing results.
Usually when a new generation phone comes out, it blows the old one out of the water. You know it’s the best phone we’ve made yet, but we did find some interesting results when it comes to Performance, gaming and app launches in the 3dmark wildlife extreme Benchmark. The flip 5 does outperform the flip 4 by a decent margin, but when we get to app launch testing, the results are mixed for Chrome.
The five oh performs the four, but for Instagram Discord and slack the four outperforms the five and I’m not sure what would cause that it could be optimization, but the form factor is very, very similar in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Obviously it performs the Gen 1. So any guess I make would be purely speculatory.
Oddly enough again, when we get to gaming, the flip 4 outperforms, the flip 5 in both Dolphin Emulator and Call of Duty mobile, though the flip 5 does perform better at unhappy raccoon, and when we get to battery testing. The results are equally as confusing. The flip 5 Hands Down slams The Flip 4 with 18 and a half hours of battery life compared to 8.75 hours. But then we get to the stress test.
The flip 5 gets 3.7 hours compared to the 4.75 hours of the flip 4., though the results are so mixed and the four outperforms the five you know in a lot of these circumstances, I wouldn’t say it was a huge blowout on most of the results and The phone we have is obviously pre-release, so there could be updates or anything changes that, but at the moment the four seems to outperform the five and everything but battery life. Now, let’s listen to some crab rave foreign, like all Samsung displays. This looks great. The colors are very Punchy and the OLED blacks look amazing and you don’t notice the 1080p resolution at all. As for sound quality, it’s pretty good.
It doesn’t have that Punchy bass, as it just doesn’t, really have the space to create that. But the balance is very good between the left, earpiece speaker and the right main speaker, or vice versa, depending on how you’re holding it – and I think it sounds really good. Let’S compare to the four just to make sure it doesn’t sound majorly different, but I’m assuming can sound pretty similar yeah. Oh yeah, they sound like the same. So, if you’re upgrading from before don’t expect any difference there on the back, we have our 12 megapixel main shooter with ois and our 12 megapixel Ultra wide. Unfortunately, no OAS on that one. So you’re going to be a little bit more steady with that and on the front we have our 10 megapixel selfie shooter no under display camera like the fold has. It is just a regular camera in the hole, punch fashion, we’re going to throw some photos. I took up earlier on the screen here, so you can take a look and what do you think, I think, looks pretty good, obviously uh, it’s not the flagship for Samsung, but I mean nowadays it’s hard to get a bad camera unless you’re going for a very Budget phone: this is a 4K 60 video on the flip 5.. What do you think uh from the preview? It looks A-Okay, maybe a little bit Overexposed but uh we’ll see. Can you hear the train? Can you hear the little bit of wind? How about jiggle? I’M jiggling the phone quite a bit and look at that. It is buttery smooth. You can’t tell I’m walking like a little goobis and this is the selfie video.
What do you think? Does it sound good? You can see my friends back there. Look at that. Little guy wow it’s exposing. Well, I think this is gon na be a winner.
Oh I’m, knocking stuff over might be took a picture for that as well. Overall, I actually think this is a pretty darn decent upgrade over the four uh performance issues. Aside, I’m assuming again that gets resolved you’re getting a much bigger cover screen, that’s way more usable and assuming they’re. Adding more widgets over time could again become very useful, though of course I do wish they went the way of the Motorola Razer Ultra and let you use any app you want.
I do think this has the possibility of becoming a very well used display, starting at a thousand dollars for the 256 gig model. It’S pretty much the price that you would pay for any Flagship. I think that this could use a bit of a bump for killer features on a folding phone if you’re somebody who doesn’t just like the form factor.
Of course, you can do multi-window between the two halves and flex mode or taking pictures with the cover displays to get the main camera. And, of course, it’s obviously the best Game Boy Advance SP emulator that there is, I still don’t think, there’s a killer reason to get this. If you don’t want to just have this smaller little square in your pocket.
For me, that is a killer feature, but but I understand for a lot of people where maybe they want the fold or going to stick to their candy bar phone for now, when the price of these start to drop, I think we’ll start to see them out Everywhere but for now I can see people waiting for more competition to space from Google Apple or even OnePlus, with the leaks coming out for their big folding phone. If they can enter that flip space, I think it will really push the whole Space forward. But while we wait for that, why don’t you go check out another video and let us know down below if this is the phone to make you want a foldable. Were you waiting for that bigger screen is Samsung. Finally done it. .