Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Galaxy Fold Unboxing: Welcome (Back) To The Future”.
The first foldable smartphone is here again and you can officially buy it this Friday, again. Here’s what you’ll get if you do. And here is why I’m so excited to welcome it back into the fold. ( upbeat, music, ) And folks. You know I don’t normally do unboxings, but this debut is different. As a quick, refresher, Samsung rolled out the galaxy fold back in the spring, but it wasn’t ready for prime time with design flaws that made it too fragile to survive a normal day.. I covered those shortfalls along with the design changes Samsung made to address them in a video earlier this month. And now I’ve got my very own retail review device to borrow. Samsung says it wanted to elevate the ownership experience for fold customers and when we pull away The box within a box that actually contains the phone we see the first evidence of that.. It’S a welcome letter, hardly unique to Samsung. Oneplus has been doing this for a few years to make people feel like they’re, joining an exclusive club.. You know, rather than just buying a phone., So I’m more interested in the insert beneath that.. This is a list of perks you get when you do drop that money on a fold. Number one: a dedicated support, hotline., It’s open, 24, seven for your questions or troubleshooting.. Apparently, you’ll be able to call by voice or video chat, even schedule, an in person meeting. If you want a Samsung rep to physically walk you through the device. Below. That is an offer for a onetime screen replacement to quote “ give you peace of mind” Yeah. That piece is gon na be hard to come by if you’ve seen the Jerry rig. Everything video., If you haven’t, suffice it to say that this display is the softest most fragile on the market right now.. So it makes sense that Samsung is offering a repair solution.
If something happens to it. Still, it’s only good within one year of purchase and it costs $ 149 dollars which doesn’t bode well for peace of mind over the long term. To protect the outside. You do get a complimentary case for the fold.
It’s made of Aramid. The material that forms the basis of Nomex, worn by fighter pilots because of its flame-resistance. And Kevlar, which makes a Bulletproof vests., Should be a pretty solid case in other words.
At the bottom of this treasure chest a charger rated for a not very fast, quick charge. 2.0, sorry folks, the 25 watt charger from the note 10 plus didn’t make the jump., Then there’s a USBC to a adapter and the crown jewel of the collection, a complimentary set of galaxy buds.. These are a pretty solid set of wireless ear buds that usually go for $ 130 bucks, so nice.
Coming to the phone itself. You cannot unwrap it without seeing these care instructions and that’s good cause. There’S a lot of them. You’re not allowed to press hard on the display., Even with your fingernail. Use any objects to touch the screen, put any stickers or screen protectors on it. And you should get the fold away from your credit cards because of the powerful magnets that keep it closed..
Most important of all the fold is by no means that Samsung’s words dust or water resistant., So if you buy it, you’ll want to mentally hop into the way back machine and treat it like. You would have treated your smartphone from a decade ago. After you dropped the nearly two grand on this thing. You’Ll need to go, buy a $ 30 dollar burner phone for the beach..
Picking up the redesign fold, I get the same, feel I reported from Berlin. A little more solid on the hinge, feel and locking open a bit more firmly.. I don’t have to do away with the visible crease in the screen, unfortunately, but it kind of fades away when the screen is on. And frankly, I’m too distracted by my joy at being back on a foldable phone.. That’S kind of a misnomer people before me have said this is really more like a foldable Tablet and the first few things I find myself wanting to do again bare that out. I lost my Kindle Oasis a while back and I’ve been without an E-reader since..
Well, the fold is the perfect size to take its place., So I eagerly re-sync, my Amazon account dive back into Calvin and Hobbes and Richard Russo.. The second thing I do is lament the loss of those custom colors, I loved so much which were cut from the assembly lines in an effort to streamline production.. So I restore a little of that color by swapping out the Samsung keyboard for a custom G-board.. It gives me a little eye, candy and space for my thumbs to spread out, which I like.. My third task is to round up the truly colossal amount of bloatware on this thing and though the fold doesn’t have a recycle bin, I give it the next best. Thing., Obviously, this isn’t the unlocked model.
It’S the 18T variant and no carrier is better than Ma Belle at burying its customers under a prodigious mountain of unwanted junk.. But I give 18T credit for agreeing to sell the fold in stores, unlike T-Mobile, which canceled after the whole debacle in the spring.. This isn’t a review so I’ll make this. My final point., Being back on the fold, is a constant reminder that you’re on the bleeding edge., That means bad things as well as good dealing with wonky apps that reset, when you switch between screens or the phone, forcing you into tablet mode to train the fingerprint Sensor, which makes no sense. It means getting used to the leaden weight of this ponderous brick when it drops into your pocket. And then the anxiety when you pull it back out and wonder if your pocket lint is gon na find its way in there to kill The display somehow. And yes, you still have to deal with an external screen., Not much bigger than the Palm phone., But this is still the first day so, each time I pop it open, it all becomes worth it. Reading a book taking notes playing a game watching A YouTube video BT dubs, please like and subscribe.
It’s like having a tablet that fits in your pocket.. Remember how for years, some of us begged Google to build multi window app support into Android. And when we finally got it, we never used it because the screens just weren’t big enough.. Well, this one is and big enough to run three apps at a time in fact.. Add in the fact that the phone is its own tripod handy for me and has tremendous battery life handy for everyone., And I continue to feel that life on a folding phone is just beginning to reveal its advantages..
I’M gon na take my time exploring that life and deliver my review down the road folks.. In the meantime, I’m gon na document the day to day with the fold over at my Instagram account., Join in over there or on Twitter.. Ask me of anything you wan na know about the galaxy fold.
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