Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “BEWARE the reviews! Pixel Fold vs Galaxy Z Fold5”.
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I got that aspect ratio, that’s perfect and when you want that sweet pixel, magic, sauce, you’re taking pictures, I got you machine learning. Hardware pixel fold is your move. I got a real front-facing camera on my tablet side, so you can actually use it for stuff. If you want a kid, the pixel folds fine, but if you want a grown man, z45 is for you. This is my fifth generation. I’Ve been doing this for half a decade and I’ve perfected it, whereas he’s just learning it.
My processor might get like a little warm. At least my battery’s, not gon na explode that got weird. I’M just gon na go full Thanos and uh. Do it myself, foreign I’ve been thinking about this video from before these phones were ever even announced.
I have an irrational love of foldables, but I’m starting to become a bit more rational. They have to add something more than like a regular rectangle phone right, they’re generally more expensive they’re thicker than regular phones, they’re, usually more fragile than regular phones like you got to get something better and different. That’S what you get from your average rectangle and both these phones are doing the same thing, but like slightly different, all right, hey future John here I actually switched to one of these phones, I’m now using. So, let’s start with the hardware, I think that is like the big giant story here, and it is very clear that both of these phones were well thought out well designed – and I think, really well engineered, which is a big credit. I think to what Google’s done, because obviously their first device was on the Sami side. Uh. This is Gen 5.. It would have been easy for Google to like copy Samsung’s homework, make it look a bit different and go for a tall and narrow screen, but they didn’t they bucked the trend, and I think that this was an absolutely brilliant move from the aspect ratio to 5.8 Inches, which I think is the absolute perfect size I could use a phone that is five foot inch, so I can use a phone or that aspect ratio. It feels good in the hand, there’s enough room to type video looks good on it. Images look good on it. Scrolling manually for social media looks good on that outer display Samsung clearly went with uh. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Let’S just make minor changes and hope nobody notices and that’s essentially what we have with the z-fold five uh. It’S a 6.2 inch screen, it’s tall and narrow, we’ve seen it for the past few Generations to me it is hard to like type on because it’s so narrow the keyboard gets all scrunchied up, but it’s definitely usable you can do whatever you want on it, but I did find myself opening it up more and using 7.6 inch inner screen, and even I did with the pixel 4, because the outer screen there was so good. So this is where also where I start to get. I think maybe a bit hypocritical and Confused.
I’M not a perfect person, so I love like I said the outer screen of the pixel fold when I open it up and get to the 7.6 inch inner screen, it’s almost too wide, because it’s double that 5.8 inches, whereas on the Z fold the 7.6 inch Inner screen same size, different aspect ratio feels better in the hands. If I learned anything from Pixel folds and a lot of Burger King commercials, it’s not have it your way. Obviously picking the right very expensive foldable is a hard decision.
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We’Re going to want to give commenteer a shot. You can join the future of coffee with cometeer and get a curated starter pack of their most popular roasts, so go to commenteer.com John ritttinger to get a free, eight pack and travel mug when you sign up. That is a free, eight pack of coffee and travel mug when you sign up at commeteer, so that’s c-o-m-e-t-e-e-r.com, slash John rettinger. When you open the screens up, I think you start to see notice the difference in the hardware here too Samsung is the screen King. For a Reason, these screens are absolutely beautiful and I one of the big changes with the z-fold 5 is the inner screen is brighter at 1750 nits. You notice that versus 1200 on the pixel uh, one of the other big changes from the z45 is the hinge, and this is where again, you can see Samsung’s making phones for a while. The hinge now goes almost flat: zero Gap, no air, no dust, no dirt. No Grime, it is awesome to see, especially after seeing the evolution of these phones from gen 1 to Gen 5.
The hinge is where they start to, like, I think Flex, the most and Samsung was super proud of it. There’S less moving Parts in it less stuff to break less dirt that can get in from the outside of it. It is a really good hinge.
Google took a very different approach here. Put the hinge essentially on the outside gave you a bit bigger bezels, which I don’t mind at all. I actually really like the hinge on the pixel fold, but it doesn’t open all the way which doesn’t sound like a big deal.
It’S like two degrees off and when you’re holding your hand, it’s fine when you put it down on a table. To use like just like just seems weird that it doesn’t do that. You can like stretch it open, which always is a weird feeling when you’re holding a foldable funnel, where I’m going to crack the thing in half. Also when it comes to the hinge on the pixel, I want to stop the bezel hate I like what they did.
I get why they did it, it works and some people complaining. I think that haven’t used the phone, the bezel completely goes away. Plus you get a real camera when it’s opened hidden in them. Chunky boy bezels, whereas on the z45 you’ve got an in-screen one. That’S really only good for like video calls, so I feel like Doug demuro here talking about quirks, there’s a lot of quirks and features uh. I guess on the pixel. It’S just are a bit strange to me: the volume button placement and the fingerprint placement. I don’t know why they would do that. They put the fingerprint on top of the volume which, even if you have giant hands it’s more natural to have it on the bottom. I think I never got used to it.
Never got the muscle memory right on the pixel fold. It is a small minor thing and probably over a few months. It wouldn’t bother me as much, but I definitely appreciated the normal placement. Uh you’ve got on the z45 also have them as equal. If I build use an S Pen, if you want – which is awesome, but you got to know where to store it unless you get a special case to put it in, I’m still surprised it’s not like a proper Silo to put that thing right on into it. So like, if you’re just doing this like on paper, talk about battery life uh, the pixel would wipe the floor with the z-fold five. It’S got a 4 800 million power battery where Samsung is a paltry 4400. The battery life on the z45 has actually been incredibly impressive, slightly less impressive on the pixel fold now, allegedly with Android 14 beta.
Those have been fixed and address, so I assume it will get better over time, but right now, despite having more milliamp hours, the z45. Oh, it’s still raining on battery they’re also running different processors. We’Ve got tensor in one and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in the other. I have honestly noticed no difference from a processor standpoint here either.
Perhaps I will over time tensors haven’t always aged. Well, as the phones go month over month, but right now at launch, these are extremely capable phones, that’ll do whatever you want from a multitasking standpoint or running games or apps. Whatever you know, there’s no difference with these films. I think cameras are probably the weirdest part about foldables. You’Ve got these crazy, expensive phones that I’ve never really used Flagship camera sensors because they’re too thick to put on an already thick phone when closed. So, let’s just blind camera test! This right, you got quasi the best from Google and you’ve got sort of the best from Samsung.
You know kind of going head to head. So here’s some pictures uh the portrait mode on these – was the main portrait mode from the back cameras. Not the front cameras.
Look at highlights. Look at the sky! Look at the green that you see here. Look at the blue of the water.
Can you well? First of all, which one do you like better A or B? Let me know in the comments, and can you guess which one was which just so you know a is a z-fold five b was the pixel fold, so both of these cameras, I think, actually take great photos. Even though the pixel is missing the same sort of Hardware as the pixel 7 Pro, it is a very pixely in its photos, which is a gigantic complement, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, uh. The main difference you see with this, I think, is in the portrait shot. The pixel is handling colors much better and it’s a bit more balanced overall.
But that is not to say that Samsung is bad. I think. In most cases, people would probably prefer the photos out of the z-fold because it produces brighter kind of more Punchy photos. I think the pixel does a generally a better job on skin tones, especially darker skin tones Samsung.
They make T-Mobile proud. You got a lot of magenta showing uh typical high saturation Samsung thing. I do wish we had more optical zoom here, but I get it you’re a size constraint. Both these are really good, but I feel like it’s a cop-out to be like they’re, both gray, whichever one gets I got, ta pick one because they make the video better, so pixel.
Camera overall is slightly better. But if you like that High contrasty stuff, the Samsung is going to do what Samsung’s going to do so. I think it’s up to now it’s pretty safe, to say that both these phones give you a pretty like compelling package right. They both have their own strength and weaknesses. Boy that starts to change is when it comes to Software. With the pixel fold, you think software would be like a massive blowout like Lakers versus bulls, just blowing them out of the water. It was at this moment that he knew he up like. I can’t understand why Google is not giving you more customization when it comes to software, and I’ve talked a lot on social media and that kind of stuff about not being able to customize the inner screen and the outer screen of the pixel.
It’S the same on both now you might like that, but certainly on Android one, the best benefits of Android is customization and I feel like that’s a very Apple decision, not a very Google decision. So maybe it was because it’s their first phone, maybe it’ll come when software gets upgraded to Android 14. I don’t know but right now it is not there and it’s weird. I use my phone differently on the outer screen versus the inner screen and I want it to look different on both of those that alone.
Uh is very weird: Samsung almost treats the screens as separate phones, if you wanted to. If you want it to mirror you have that option there as well, you are getting kind of the best of Google what they can do with Android, with sort of the best of Samsung’s, now half a decade of experience, making foldables, and that is really apparent. With software – and it is absolutely nuts that coming from the maker of Android, you figure out, if anybody they would give you the most options and it’s a little confusing as to why it’s not there yet we’re not looking for much customization.
You just want sort of one experience can be Universal across the device. You’Ll be happy with everyone you go, but if you want to be able to customize more and treat the other screen separately, like that’s very clearly an easy decision to make so like this might seem like a pretty obvious answer right, which one is going to win. But it’s not as obvious as you think, if you have pretty much any version of the z-fold before the five you’re, not going to notice a giant difference when you choose to upgrade.
In fact, if you’re on different experience, I’d probably say it for you: z-fold owners. You want to get something new. You got 800 bucks to bring a hole in your pocket.
I go for the pixel all right, hey future John here I actually switched to one of these phones uh, I’m now using the z-fold five as my everyday phone. For a few months, kind of give it a shot, see how it performs, But ultimately it’s the the more mature software on the Samsung side that has made me go to the z-fold uh over the pixel. Now the z45 is not a perfect phone.
The tall and narrow ftec ratio on the outer screen is still a bit weird and hard to reach with, but only one hand being able to have those home screen customizations on both really makes it feel like more of a complete product. I am hopeful that Google will stick with the pixel fold now. Google is known for a lot of things, but Chief among them is killing products that are really good.
Um they’ve done it with Hardware before actually done it with a ton of their software and apps, but I’m hoping the pixel fold will get multiple Generations. I think, by the time we get to Gen 2 gen 3 Gen, 4 Gen 5. You will have a really well-rounded, pretty awesome and before and a lot of it is software, and if Google updates this over the next weeks or months and we’ll revisit this right now.
But as the software stands in early August. When I’m filming this for my money and it’s a lot of money, I’m going with the team that has the experience – that’s been doing it for a while. I’M gon na pick up the Samsung z45 .