Lifelong iPhone User SWITCHES to Samsung Z Fold 6： 3 DAYS Later

I've been using this iPhone 12 mini now

for about 5 years, and I think it's time

for something new.

As you can see, it's pretty beat up and

it's not looking great.

So as someone who mainly uses iPhones for

his entire life, I had to decide, do I

want to get the new iPhone, or do I want

to try something completely different and

go for the Samsung Z Fold 6?

And as you can see, I went for the Z Fold

6.

So today we're going to be talking about

why I went for the Z Fold 6 instead of

getting the latest iPhone 15 Pro.

So as you can imagine, the iPhone 12 mini

has a very tiny display.

As the name says, it is very mini.

And after using a very small phone for

about 5 years, even though it's very nice

in the pocket with how light and portable

it is, I do find myself wanting a much

bigger display sometimes.

And you could say, why didn't you just get

the iPhone 15 Max?

Because that has a really big screen as

well.

Well, yeah, that is pretty big, but it's

just not as big as the Z Fold 6 screen,

and I really have been enjoying the much

larger screen on the Z Fold 6 for watching

YouTube videos and media consumption and

also media creation.

I'm actually editing my video on the Z

Fold 6 right now.

Combined with the S Pen, this thing is an

absolute powerhouse when it comes to

creating things and productivity.

I feel like now that I have such a big

screen, I want to use the phone more, and

I want to use it in ways that I've never

really thought about using a phone before

because of the smaller screen.

Last year, I actually did buy the iPhone

15 Pro and I thought that was going to be

my new phone, thinking because, you know,

I'm an iPhone user, obviously get the

latest iPhone 15.

But I ended up returning it within 2 weeks

because I just didn't really feel like it

had any new features that were drastically

different to the iPhone 12 Mini.

Apart from the camera being slightly

better, there wasn't really much

difference, and I decided to send it back.

And I thought to myself, okay, I'm going

to hold off buying a new phone until

something really cool, something really

different comes out onto the phone market,

and Samsung rewarded my patience by

releasing the newest Fold Z6.

Now actually, I had the original Fold back

in 2020, but I didn't like it because it

was too chunky, it was too heavy, and the

design was frankly quite ugly.

4 years later, Samsung have created about

6 Fold phones now, and the latest Fold 6

design is really beautiful.

And it's actually quite amazing looking

back now at how much progress Samsung has

made with the fold phones.

I mean, look at the original Fold, had

that massive gap in between the hinge when

the phone was closed, and it just looked

really ugly.

The corners all rounded, the edges all

rounded.

It was so thick as well.

Look how chunky this phone was.

The crease— crease is basically the same

as it was back then.

They haven't really made much improvements

in reducing the crease, but it's not

really a big problem when you're looking

at the phone directly.

You don't really notice the crease.

The main thing I hated about the original

Fold was it was just so damn heavy.

When I put it in my pocket, it was like

putting a massive brick into my pocket,

and it was really hard to not notice that

there's a massive phone in your pocket.

But with the Fold 6, it is much lighter.

It's only 240 grams.

It is way thinner, and it's just a much

better looking phone.

So we have the 2 phones in front of us

right now.

We have the Fold 6 and the iPhone 12 Mini,

and I've also got the S Pen here, which I

bought with the Fold 6.

And I have to say, coming from the iPhone

12 Mini to the phone— the Fold phone 6 has

just been an amazing experience.

The things you can do on this thing just

blow me away.

For example, the multitasking.

You can't do any multitasking on the

iPhone 12 Mini.

There's no split-screen apps, there's no

hovering pop-up apps.

I mean, look at this, I can just drag the

calculator from the taskbar into the

middle of the screen.

I mean, not like that, but you can do

this.

Like, you get the calculator and then you

drag it down from top, and now I can

minimize the actual app so it's now a

floating window.

Look at that, I've now got a floating

window here of a calculator.

I can now bring up other apps like, um,

Google maybe, and then I can have the

calculator on top of the Google app, and I

can minimize that just by swiping up.

And there's just so many things you can do

with this.

The flexibility of this phone is just

incredible.

And you might be wondering, wasn't it

difficult switching from iPhone to

Android?

And the honest answer is not really.

I didn't really use that many of the

iPhone or Apple-only ecosystem stuff like

iMessages.

I never used that iMessage thing.

I don't have any friends and I use other

apps to talk to people.

I use Facebook to talk to my mum and

sister.

I use Line, which is a messaging app used

in Japan to chat to other people.

And I don't really chat to that many

people, so I don't really have like loads

of friends who have my phone number and I

chat to them using the Apple iMessage

thing.

And now I had to transfer it all over to

my new phone.

I didn't have that problem because I don't

really know many people, to be honest.

I didn't use any of the other Apple apps

either, like iMusic.

I don't listen to music.

If I do listen to music, I'll just go into

YouTube and I'll search up my favorite

band's albums on YouTube and just play

that on YouTube.

And for Google Maps, I use Google Maps.

I never use Apple Maps.

I didn't use the Apple email stuff.

I never used the Apple messaging thing.

So there's nothing on Apple that I needed,

so it was pretty easy to transition over

to Android.

I thought I was gonna miss the gesture

control thing.

You know, you swipe up on iPhones, there's

no home button anymore.

They replace that with the swipe up

gestures.

I really like that on iPhone, and I find

it really useful.

But I found out you can do that on the

Samsung as well, because look, you just

change the gesture navigation bar from

buttons to gestures, and now it's exactly

the same.

It's funny how it's exactly the same as

iPhone.

You just swipe up and it goes back to your

home screen so you can open an app, and

you swipe up and it goes back home.

You swipe left and right and it switches

between open apps already.

I also prefer the cameras on Samsung over

iPhone.

The iPhone cameras, they're okay, but I

don't like the way it makes me look.

It makes me look old and makes me look

ugly.

But the Samsung camera make me look

handsome and charming and good-looking.

So I always like using Samsung cameras

over iPhone cameras, and the camera

systems and camera default app, I find it

to just be a way better user experience

than the iPhone apps.

And also I like the customization ability

with the Samsung phones, got much better

widgets.

The widgets are cool, I've got these clock

widgets and weather widgets.

iPhone only just recently released widgets

about a couple years ago So it took them a

long time to catch up with Android in

terms of widgets.

Gaming on this thing is absolutely amazing

with this massive screen.

I tried playing this new game called

Wuthering Waves, and look at the display—

it just looks so gorgeous.

It's so big and luscious, and it's got

plenty of room for the on-screen buttons

to go.

And I was able to do some pretty cool

things with this.

For example, you can do split screen

whilst gaming and have like YouTube on the

top and a calculator here and a calculator

there.

You can do multi-screen and pop-up apps on

top of the game.

So if you want to game and multitask at

the same time, you can do that, but the

phone will get extremely hot and it might

shut down from overheating.

So you might have to get like an external

fan.

So just bear that in mind.

And I just cannot imagine the iPhone being

able to do anything like this, even with

the bigger screen size with the iPhone 15

Max.

I don't think you can do split screens.

I don't think you can do pop-up apps.

Even if you could, it wouldn't be very

good because, well, the screen, even

though it's a Max phone, it's just not as

big as a foldable phone.

That's a great thing about foldables— they

can be folded and then they become the

size of a normal phone, and then they can

be opened and they become the size of

basically a mini tablet.

And I've just been sitting here all day

with my phone in my hands way more than

usual.

Usually I'm on my laptop or my computer

with my big monitors and only use my

phones that much, just messaging.

But now I'm just on my phone way more than

I used to be, and I can do so many things

on it that I wouldn't really think of

doing on my iPhone.

I don't really miss anything about the

iPhone.

The iPhone could do some cool things, but

I can't really think of anything that I

can't do on the Samsung Fold 6.

And you could say, if you like the big

screen so much, why don't you just get an

iPad?

You can get like 13-inch or 11-inch iPad

Pro with the M4 chip, and it's got the

superior stylus.

I have to say, the Apple Pencil is way

better than the S Pen.

I do like the S Pen, but it is kind of

small very cheap feeling, like a little

bit of plastic.

But an iPad, you can't really put into

your pocket, can you?

It is nice and big, but you're not really

going to be able to take it around with

you.

So you're going to need a phone and the

iPad, whereas with the Fold 6, you just

need the Fold 6 and it's a phone and a

tablet all in one.

So if you lose it, you lose both devices

at the same time, which is kind of bad, I

guess.

But just maybe don't lose your phone.

So yeah, in conclusion, I have to say I'm

quite happy with the phone, the Fold 6.

It is way better than the iPhone 12 Mini,

obviously, because it's like 4 years

newer.

Better technology, better design, better

graphics, better screen, better everything

really.

I can't really find anything to complain

about apart from it is still kind of big

and still kind of heavy in the pocket.

It's 240 grams, which is double the weight

of the iPhone 12 Mini, but that's just

kind of the sacrifice you have to make.

If you want a bigger screen, you're going

to have to have a bigger phone.

That is really the laws of physics.