Why I returned my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6

Hey guys, welcome back to a new video.

So I've got some sad news to share today.

As you can see, I don't have my Samsung Z

Fold 6 in my hands anymore.

Yep, I'm back to my iPhone 12 Mini, and I

want to talk about why I decided to return

the Samsung Z Fold 6, why I felt like it

was a waste of money, and why I decided to

go back to my good old trusty iPhone 12

Mini.

So yeah, wow.

So yeah, I packed up the box and I wrapped

it all up and I gave it to my mum to drop

off at the DPD drop-off point.

And the reason why I decided to return it

was I kind of came to the conclusion that

it is not worth spending nearly £2,000— I

think it was £1,800— it's not worth

spending that kind of money when it

doesn't let you do anything you couldn't

already do before.

So I could already take pictures on my

iPhone, I could already do mobile gaming,

I could already do web browsing, chatting,

financial stuff, buying stuff, Amazon

shopping.

I could do everything already on my older

phones What is the point of spending so

much money when it doesn't even let me do

new things?

It only lets me do the same things I was

already doing but slightly better.

So when I first got it, I was really

impressed and I was blown away and I

thought, yes, this is the best phone I've

ever used.

And don't get me wrong, it probably was

the best phone I've ever used, but that

doesn't justify how expensive the damn

thing is.

I can't justify spending nearly £2,000

just to be able to do the things I was

already doing.

And yeah, I could do things I was already

doing slightly faster, but I don't really

really care about being able to take

better photos or being able to browse the

internet 0.10 milliseconds faster or be

able to play games on higher settings.

So I could play the new Call of Duty

Warzone game on my old iPhone 12 Mini with

my new controller, which I guess I'm stuck

with now because I actually bought this

for the Fold 6, but I can use it.

It actually works perfectly fine with the

iPhone 12 Mini.

And now look, I've got this tiny little

gaming device which actually feels way

comfier.

It's way lighter, way easier in the

pocket.

And I could play Battlefield— I mean, Call

of Duty Warzone— perfectly okay on the

iPhone 12 Mini.

Okay, the graphics weren't as good because

it's a lower-powered device, which means

graphics had to be slightly lower.

And I played Diablo Immortal, and I

played— what is it— Dead Cells.

And I've also got Hades, which is only on

iPhone.

So the good thing about iPhone is it's got

certain apps and games that are not

available on Android.

So it does have better and just got a

bigger variety of games.

It's funny, I'm paying nearly £2,000 and I

have less variety of games because it's

Android.

That is kind of silly.

And because I bought the phone on finance,

I was locked into like 36 months of paying

£46 every month.

And I thought to myself, I do not want to

be stuck paying for this stupid folding

phone, which the technology is going to be

kind of obsolete in 2 or 3 years anyway.

I don't want to be stuck paying this phone

£46 a month for the next 3 years of my

life.

That's insane.

So I would still be paying it in 2027 when

I'm nearly 40 years old and I'm still

stuck with it.

And there's just a lot of money over that

course of time, that period of time.

And I didn't really feel like I was doing

anything I wasn't already doing.

So yeah, it was quite nice in the

beginning.

And then I just started to get comfortable

using the phone.

I got used to its features and I've

realized, wait, I'm doing exactly what I

was already doing with my previous phones.

I'm not using the AI features at all.

I didn't use any of the AI features.

I didn't use, I mean, well, in the first

few days I did try out Sketch to Image AI

and I thought, wow, this is amazing.

I can do a crappy sketch and look at these

amazingly beautiful girls the AI is

generating for me.

And yeah, it was kind of cool.

It works well.

But to be honest, I'm never gonna use it.

I'm never gonna use the thing where it

turns your face into like a 3D art, like

an animated character from Disney.

I'm never gonna use that.

I'm never gonna use the draw on the photo

thing so you can draw like a big cat on

your photo and it generates it onto the

photo.

Just never gonna use any of this.

The only thing I took away from it was

that I did actually quite enjoy using

Gemini.

But guess what?

You can use Gemini on any single device.

You don't need a new Samsung Fold 6 to be

able to use Gemini.

And also, I quite enjoyed some other

features like Good Lock.

Does have some good features to customize

your Android device, which I've now

downloaded onto my S10 Plus, which has to

be a really great phone because I've been

using it since 2019 and it's still great.

I'm making this video on my Samsung S10

Plus and I decided to go back to S10+ over

the Fold 6, which kind of shows you that

over 6 years of innovation and

technological improvements, I don't really

care about using the latest and greatest

over using my old S10+.

I'm perfectly happy with my S10+.

Sure, it's kind of ugly, it's kind of

scuffed, the cameras aren't as clear, but

I don't really care because this camera

looks great to me.

So you might be thinking, but now you've

just lost a really good phone which has a

really nice big display and it plays games

really well and it's really quick and

really fast and it's great and everything.

Yeah, but I've already got a device that

does all those things.

It's called a gaming laptop plugged into

my big 12— I mean, 32-inch curved monitor,

which has an RTX 4050, Ryzen 7 9040HS,

which can already play games on ultra

settings.

It plays PC games— Rainbow Six, Diablo 4,

Elden Ring, Cyberpunk— all those newest,

latest games, not stupid crappy Android

games that can barely get 60 FPS.

I've already got a nice gaming laptop

which has an 11-inch screen, which is

obviously way bigger than the Fold 6

screen.

So if I need like a portable device which

has big screen, good for gaming, fits in

my backpack, I've already got one.

I don't need a Fold 6.

And actually, the funny thing is the Fold

6 costs nearly double the price of my

gaming laptop.

I bought my gaming laptop— what is it, an

ASUS X13 Flow 11-inch?

I bought that in Thailand for like £1,000

because I got it on a 10% sale after

Christmas sale.

So I got that for £1,000.

The Fold 6 was £1,800, nearly double the

price of my gaming laptop when it's like

worse in every way compared to the gaming

laptop.

I mean, it does have cameras and it can

fit in my pocket, which the gaming laptop

can't, but I'm not going to bring my

gaming laptop when I'm just like out and

about.

I'd bring my gaming laptop if I go

traveling, put my backpack and then leave

it at the hotel.

Also, the other thing I didn't like about

it, which was one of the factors when I

was factoring in whether

to turn it to return it back or not was

the size.

It's just too big, it's too thick, it's

too heavy.

It's like double the weight of this iPhone

12 Mini and double the thickness.

Samsung have really got to work on the

thickness and the thinness of that device

because the Chinese rivals are way thinner

and way lighter with much better specs.

So yeah, I didn't want like a massive

brick pulling down my trousers in my

pocket, and this is just way nicer on the

pockets— in the pocket.

Look how thin this is, and it's only 110

grams compared to 240 grams of the the

Fold 6.

Having a big display is nice and

everything, but the whole point of a phone

is you put it in your pocket when you go

outside, so you've got a mini computer in

your pocket in case you need to buy stuff,

check stuff, look stuff up.

It's not really supposed to be a device

where you're like sitting there watching

movies or playing really high-fidelity

games on it or doing anything important.

That is what a laptop or a desktop

computer is for.

You don't need like a desktop tablet thing

in your pocket when you go out, because

when you go out, you're going out to do

something like you're meeting friends,

you're going sightseeing, you're going to

buy food at the supermarket, you're going

to do some kind of errand or go on a date.

You're not going out so you can stare at

your phone the whole time.

You stare at a display the whole time when

you're at home and when you're bored, or

when you've got productivity and work to

do.

Imagine doing your work on a phone.

If it's serious work, it should be done on

a proper computer, which is way cheaper

than a Fold 6.

So yeah, for those reasons, I had to

unfortunately return the Fold 6, and I

feel like I've got this big financial

burden lifted off my shoulders.

No longer have to pay £45 a month.

Also, hopefully I will get my £150 initial

deposit back.

I didn't damage the phone, the box was

opened and torn a little bit, so hopefully

that won't impact how much they refund to

me.

And also, I returned— I mean, I traded in

my Flip 4 that I bought 2 years ago, and

they gave me £300 off of the Fold 6.

So I don't know what's going to happen to

that.

Are they going to send me back my Flip 4?

Or are they going to send me £300?

Because that'd be nice, because then I get

back the £150 plus the £300, I make profit

£450.

I didn't lose any money, so it'd be pretty

good.

So yeah, it'd be interesting to find out

what they're going to do about my traded

info in the Flip 4Z.

I would like the money because I would

like an extra £300.

So if it goes that way, in the end we did

like this big roundabout way of basically

selling my Flip 4 for a couple hundred

pounds, and I got to experience using the

Fold 6, so I have no regrets— whatever.