Why I Regret buying the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So recently I got this brand new Samsung Z

Fold 6 and I've been using it for about a

week now.

And don't get me wrong, I do really like

the phone and I think it's great and

everything, but I'm starting to regret

buying it because I'm looking at the other

rivals and competitions in the foldable

phone market, mostly coming out of China,

and I'm thinking, damn, these Chinese

foldable phones are looking so good

compared to this Fold 6.

And it's starting to make me think maybe I

return this and get one of the Chinese

foldable phones.

So I really like the design of this phone.

I think it's really nice to use, and I

feel like the cameras are great and

everything.

I love the stylus support, I love the AI,

and it's just overall great.

But then I start comparing the specs of

the hardware of this phone to the Chinese

foldable phones, and I can't help but feel

like this phone is lacking in a certain

kind of luster.

So the main Chinese foldable phones that

have really caught my eye recently are the

Vivo X Fold 3 Pro the Honor Magic V3 and

also the OnePlus Open 2.

I really like the look of the Honor Magic

V3 just because of how incredibly thin it

is.

So this Samsung Fold 6 is about 12mm

thick, and you might think, well, that's

not too thick, but it's not too thin.

It does feel kind of chunky in the hand.

It's kind of like 2 phones on top of each

other.

But then look at the Honor Magic V3.

It's actually 9mm thick, and you might

think, that's only 3mm.

Are you really going to notice difference

of 3mm.

But you look at the Honor Magic V3

compared to normal phones, and it's

actually slimmer, or at least the same

thickness, as a normal non-foldable phone.

And it makes me kind of jealous, thinking

that now I got this really big, thick,

chunky phone, and I could have a normal

thickness phone that also opens up into a

big display.

The Honor Magic V3 is basically better

than the Fold 6 in almost every single way

apart from water resistance, which I don't

really care about because I'm not taking

my phone into the shower anyway.

But the main important features like the

camera, the battery, the charging speed,

the thickness, the size of the phone, that

kind of stuff, the Honor Magic V3 blows

the Samsung Fold 6 out of the water.

And it's cheaper than the Fold 6 right

now.

You can't buy it in the UK because it

hasn't been released in the UK yet, but

you can import it from China or Hong Kong.

And it's actually cheaper to import it

from Hong Kong or China than getting a

brand new Fold 6.

So it's not even more expensive even

though you get better specs.

So for the specs, you get a 66 wired

charging rate, whereas the Fold 6 only has

25 watts wired charging speed.

So to charge this from 0 to 100%, it takes

about an hour and 20 minutes, which is

ages.

I've got to sit here with this plugged in

for over an hour when I've got stuff to do

whilst I wait for this to charge.

And then for the 50— I mean, for the

wireless charging, you've got 50 watts

wireless charging speed on the Magic V3

versus 15 watts wireless charging speed on

this Fold 6, which is absolutely pathetic.

I've got a wireless charger as well, but

when I try placing this on the wireless

charger, it takes over 2 hours to fully

charge it from a dead battery.

I don't have over 2 hours to sit here

waiting for it to wirelessly charge, so I

end up just plugging it into my wired

charger, which is much faster.

So with the Honor Magic V3, you've got 66W

charging speed when it's wired, which is

over double of what this is.

So it's supposed to be able to finish

charging from flat to 100% in just 25

minutes.

That's what Honor is claiming.

And also the battery in the Honor Magic V3

is way bigger than the Fold 6.

I mean, most of these Chinese foldable

phones have way bigger batteries.

Even the OnePlus Open 2 is boasting about

having a 6,000 milliamp battery when it's

released.

But the Magic V3 has a 5,150 milliamp

battery, which is bigger than the Fold 6's

4,400 milliamp battery.

So I have to charge my phone twice a day

even with 4,400 milliamps of battery.

So I wake up in the morning and the

phone's nearly dead because I have it

under my pillow and drains overnight.

I charge it up to full, it takes about an

hour, and then I'm using it until around

the evening, and then I have to charge it

up again to top it up because it won't

survive the night if I don't charge up a

second time.

So I'm thinking if I had over 5,000

milliamps of battery, I probably wouldn't

need to charge it twice a day.

I just really don't know why the battery

tech in the new Samsung Fold 6 is so bad

compared to its rivals and competitors.

I guess one way of looking at it is that

the faster you charge the battery, so with

fast charging, it charges your battery

faster, but it's not good for the

battery's overall health.

Whereas slower charging is more

inconvenient, but it's actually better

overall for the greater good of your

battery health.

It's kind of like a vegan diet compared to

a carnivore diet.

Sure, a carnivore diet where you're eating

a lot of meat is going to give you much

more energy much quicker, but it's kind of

bad for your health if all you're going to

eat is steaks and fried meat and that kind

of stuff.

And then a vegan diet is going to be much

less energy, much lower calories, but

you're gonna have to eat more of it.

But in the long run, it's going to be

better for your body.

I think that's kind of the way you have to

see fast charging versus slow charging.

Okay, next we have to talk about the

cameras.

The cameras on the Magic Honor V3 just

blow the Samsung Fold 6 out of the water.

So with the Fold 6, you've got this triple

lens setup.

You've got a 50-megapixel main camera,

you've got a 12-megapixel ultra-wide

wide-angle camera, you've got a

10-megapixel telephoto with 3x optical

zoom, and then you have 2 selfie cameras.

So you've got this selfie camera here on

the external screen, which has 10

megapixels, which has much better image

quality than the internal camera on the

inside screen, which only has 4

megapixels.

I can't believe we're paying over $2,000

for a 2024 foldable phone,

state-of-the-art technology, and they're

only giving us a 4-megapixel camera on

that side of the inner side, inside

screen.

The 4 megapixels is rubbish.

And obviously when you take selfies, you

want to take the selfies using the big

screen and not the tiny tiny little screen

on the external display.

I'd much rather take a selfie like this,

but then I've got to use the 4-megapixel

camera.

So in comparison, the Honor Magic V3's

camera is just so much better.

It's got a 50-megapixel main camera, same

as the Samsung Fold 6, but it's got a

50-megapixel telephoto 3.5x optical lens,

which is just better than the 12— I mean,

the 10-megapixel telephoto on the Fold 6.

And it's got a 40-megapixel wide-angle

lens, which is way better than the

12-megapixel ultra-wide on the Samsung

Fold 6.

And then as for the selfie cameras, it's

got 2 20-megapixel selfie cameras on the

inside screen and the external screen.

And I haven't even mentioned how the

external screen, the outer screen on the

Honor Magic V3, is way wider than this

narrow little thing on Samsung's

foldables.

I don't know why Samsung is so obsessed

with having a very narrow external screen

when everyone keeps saying We want a wider

external screen, Samsung.

You've made six of these foldable phones

now.

You were first on the market with the

first ever foldable phone, and you're

great for doing that and everything.

But the competition has caught up.

The Chinese foldables are just way better

hardware-wise.

It is kind of sad to see how Samsung has

fallen from being the top dog of

innovation to now just kind of becoming

another Apple, where they just put out a

new phone every year that's only slightly

better in a very boring way than the

previous edition.

And now these new Chinese companies like

Huawei, OnePlus.

Honor, Vivo, they're now making the actual

interesting, innovative new phones with

new ideas and better hardware.

And I feel like Samsung's getting kind of

lazy and they're just resting on their

laurels and they're not really putting

much effort into improving the hardware.

I mean, this Fold 6 hardware-wise is

basically the same as last year's Fold 5.

The only difference is they've put more

effort into the software and the AI

features.

So when it comes to hardware, then yes,

the Chinese foldables are much better.

You've got better battery, faster charging

battery, better cameras, thinner design,

wider external display than the Fold 6.

And that all sounds amazing and

everything, but without actually being

able to hold the phones and test them out

and use them, I don't know about the

software.

Samsung software is amazing.

I've been using this for about a week.

The multitasking, the software, and the AI

features that are built into the phone are

really cool.

And I really like the camera app.

The microphone sounds great.

The speakers sound great.

I don't know if you can say the same for

the Chinese phones because from my

experience, Chinese phones have good

hardware, but the software is kind of

rubbish, janky, ugly, amateur looking.

And the cameras are not very— I mean, the

cameras are good hardware-wise, but the

software is not good.

So filming a video on a Chinese phone is

not very good because the mics suck, or

the speakers suck, or the stabilization

suck.

So it's hard to know if they are better

software-wise than the Samsung.

And as for the AI features, Um, I don't

know if I really care that much about

Samsung's AI.

And also I heard that from 2025, the

Samsung AI features in this phone are not

going to be free anymore.

So if you want to carry on using them,

you're going to have to pay a monthly

subscription, and I'm not going to pay

that because I don't really care that much

about the AI features.

Yeah, sketch-to-image AI thing is kind of

cool when you try it out, but honestly,

when am I ever going to use any of these

AI-generated sketches I've made?

I'm not going to put them anywhere on my

socials because I didn't make them, it was

AI generated.

I'm not gonna like brag to people that I

generated this AI image when I didn't even

make it myself.

It's just kind of useless.

And other things like circle to search,

not very, I mean, it's kind of useful, but

I'm not gonna use it.

I guess one of the cool things with the AI

built into this is how you can edit an

image and you can like remove people from

the background, or you can select

yourself, remove yourself, enlarge

yourself, or draw in little objects which

look photorealistic.

I guess that could could be useful in very

specific situations, but I really don't

see myself using it that much.

So Samsung have really gone in hard with

the software and the AI built-in AI side

of things, but I would rather have good

hardware than have good AI stuff because I

don't really care that— I feel like AI is

just a bunch of gimmicky stuff that is not

very important.

It's not super useful for me at least, and

I don't really care if I get a Chinese

foldable phone and it doesn't have any AI

features.

Now I would like a stylus.

I do like the S Pen on this, and I don't

think the other Chinese foldables have S

Pen— I mean stylus support— apart from the

Honor Magic V3.

I think that does have stylus support, but

I don't know if the stylus on that is as

good as the S Pen.

So yeah, I feel like I kind of made a

mistake buying this, and that's mainly

because Samsung rushed out their Fold 6 to

be the first brand new foldable out this

year before the competition.

I wonder why they were so desperate to

rush their products out before the

competition.

Maybe because they feel like their product

is inferior to the competition.

I don't know, but I guess should have in

hindsight had a bit more patience, checked

out what the competition had on offer, and

waited for them to release.

So I'm not going to import an Honor Magic

V3 from Hong Kong because I'm scared it's

going to get lost or something.

I'm going to wait until the Honor UK

website releases it globally here in the

UK, and then I might think about getting

one to compare to the Fold 6.

Also, you've got the Google Fold— the,

what's it called, the Google Pixel Fold

Fold 2 or Pro is coming out as well, and

that might also give the Fold 6 a run for

its money.

But I feel like the, the Honor really

looks interesting with how thin it is and

how good the cameras are and how big the

battery is.

So yeah, I'm going to get that when it

comes out later this year and then do like

a comparison with this phone.

And then I have to decide if I'm going to

send this phone back to Samsung within,

what, 2 weeks?

I think I can send this back within 2

weeks for a full refund.