DO NOT BUY Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 - Very Disappointing

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I got myself one of these, a

Samsung Flip 4 Z, or Z depending

how you say it. And I would have to say

that even though it's quite a decent phone

and it's quite impressive in certain

areas, unfortunately I would have to say,

as an avid fan of Samsung mobile phones,

this particular mobile phone isn't really

quite up to my standards and is rather

lacking in luster. So as you can see, the

phone opens and closes like this, and the

hinge mechanism is pretty satisfying,

pretty good. There's no weird clicks or

weird sounds as if it's going to break.

It does feel quite good to open and close

the phone. However, once the phone is

open, you'll notice that it is a very long

phone. As you can see, compared to my

iPhone 12 Mini, it is a very long phone,

and it feels kind of weird. It feels very

top-heavy when you're holding it like

this, so I Sometimes it feels like you're

holding a television remote control. It

feels like it's just going to topple

forwards like that because it's so

top-heavy. And it feels kind of awkward in

the hand, especially when you're trying to

use it one-handed. You can't really access

most of the screen using just your thumb.

See, I can go as high as that with my

thumb, but when I use my iPhone 12 mini,

I can reach the entire screen just with my

thumb. And that's very convenient for

one-handed usage. Unfortunately, with the

Samsung Flip Z4, it's very difficult to

one-hand it. You're going to be like this

most of the time, maybe like that,

two-thumbing it, or maybe one-handing it

and index fingering it. But if you want to

do one-handed use, it's very cumbersome.

So as for the software itself, it is

obviously very slick for a phone of this

price and of this variety, I would expect

that the processing speed should be pretty

fast and pretty slick. I would be very

shocked if you spent this amount of money

on a phone like this and it was laggy or

sluggish. So the phone is up to par with

the speeds of other phones, but that

doesn't really matter when you're spending

this much money. And the problem is,

basically you're spending so much money—

this cost me £1,050— just

for a very basic phone that doesn't really

do anything special apart from the fact

that it folds. Now, if you don't care that

it folds, you, you're basically spending

over £1,000 for a very basic phone that

doesn't really do anything else different

compared to my iPhone 12 Mini, which only

cost me about £700, which does everything

that the Fold does apart from folding.

Now, with folding, you can do some cool

things, like you can rest it on a tabletop

or a flat surface. For example, imagine

you're having Imagine you're having

breakfast and you've got your bowl on the

table and you're eating it and you can't

really hold the phone, but you want to use

your phone. You can just prop up your

phone like that as a laptop and you can be

typing like that and viewing stuff on the

top half of the screen. It's quite, quite

a cool little way to use the phone as a

miniature laptop. But if you don't really

care about that, if you're just one of

those people and you're just having

breakfast, you don't really care about

your phone so much, you can just place

your phone on the table like this and

still be tapping away and using it fairly

well. So I don't know if you want to spend

the extra money just so you can have a

miniature laptop. You can also use the

phone as a stand like that if you're

taking photos, and it stands up on its own

because it's, it's folded like that.

But again, my iPhone 12 mini can also

stand up on its own like that on its edge,

and I think most people don't even care if

the phone can stand up on its own. You can

also stand the phone up like that and take

a photo if you really wanted to, but

again, I don't think most people care too

much about the smartphone photography.

Most people just hold the phone, take a

selfie or take a snapshot on holiday and

that's it. That's as much as they really

care about photography. One of the most

annoying things about this phone I've

found is the fact that the lock screen and

the volume buttons are on the same side.

Usually you'd have the lock screen button

on that side and volume on this side. And

that's good because when you want to take

screenshots, you take 2 hands, you press

the lock button and the volume key at the

same time like this and it's pretty easy.

But to take a screenshot on this phone is

kind of awkward. So if you want to do it

like this, it's kind of awkward to use

your thumb and index finger to take a

screenshot like that. Or you would have to

hold it like that and put your thumb there

and put your other hand around the back

side like that and take a screenshot like

this. It seems like I'm doing it very

easily now, but that's just because I've

had lots of practice. When I first tried

doing screenshots, I kept accidentally

turning the volume up and down or locking

the screen, and it was kind of irritating.

One of the biggest problems I found when

you have such a long screen like this is

when you watch YouTube. So I've opened one

of my videos on YouTube, and look how

stupid this looks. You've got this really

long screen, and the viewing— the video

viewing area is just this tiny little tip

on the top. You know, this entire thing,

and what, uh, 60 or 70% of the screen is

not being utilized by what you're viewing.

So you've got this massive long thing down

here, I guess you could use for reading

comments like that. I guess if

you really just want to focus on the

comments, don't really care that much

about the, the video viewing experience,

then that's fine. And you can also

minimize it, and you've got this pop-up

player that you can drag around, which is

okay, I guess. You've got a lot of screen

real estate left over to do other things

whilst you have your video open there,

but really it's kind of weird how YouTube

videos are shot in this wide angle, but

most people watch YouTube videos on their

phone, not on a wide angle screen like a

TV or monitor. So it seems kind of silly

to have such a wide viewing thing and then

you have so much space down here. It would

make more sense if YouTube videos were

shot in a square like a 1:1 or a 4:9

or a 16:9. One thing else I have to

complain about is when you put the video

into full screen mode, like that, you have

these massive black bars on either side.

Look at that, that is just ridiculous.

So in comparison to my iPhone 12 Mini,

which has a much smaller screen compared

to the Samsung Flip 4Z, when you have the

YouTube players open full screen, they

don't really look that— they don't really

look that much different, do they?

Because the full size of the screen can't

really be used on the Samsung Flip 4

because it's so long and you get these

black bars on either side. So look at

that, viewing experience comparison to the

iPhone 12. So one thing I have to say

is that the screen is way sharper,

vivid, and saturated than the iPhone 12.

For some, for some reason, look at this.

This is the exact same video playing, but

on iPhone 12 Mini, the video looks kind

of, kind of dull, kind of— what's the

word— not very high in saturation. The not

very high in saturation, I should say,

compared to the Flip 4Z, which looks way

more saturated and vivid. So yeah,

that's one thing I can't really complain

about. The display does look way better on

the Flip 4Z,

but again, these huge black bars on either

side are kind of irritating. Now when you

close the phone, you do get some widgets

on the external display. The external

display is pretty cool. You can have a

little clock here like that. Let me zoom

in. So you can have a, a clock and

you can swipe it for different widgets

like weather and alarms and recording

things and timers,

but it's pretty basic. It would be nice if

you can have a web browser so you can

actually do something on this screen apart

from just checking what the date is. You

can also film a video, so if you

double-click the lock button this screen

does turn into a viewfinder like

that. So you can take a photo or you can

take a video, and you can, you can

take a video like that and it will film.

If you double tap, it'll film. It will

show you the full view of the viewfinder,

and it's okay. You can use this to take

videos, and you can just do that and do

that and use it as a stand and prop it up

like that. Take some quick videos. Just

the annoying thing is, after you finish

taking a video, let's say you want to

quickly take another video. Let's say,

oh, something really exciting happened. I

really want to open up my video recorder

quickly. Well, you can't because it

defaults back to photo. Then you've got to

swipe back to video, and then you've got

to double tap again to— so you've got a

full view of what you're filming, because

otherwise it crops in like that. And then

you tap it, and then you've got to wait

for the countdown, and then it starts

filming. It just feels like it takes a

long time to actually start filming when

you might want to start filming straight

away. So for those reasons, I don't know

if I can recommend this phone. It's a very

expensive phone, over £1,000, just for

pretty basic phone. If you take away the

folding capabilities of this phone, it

doesn't really do anything else that sets

it apart from the other flagship phones.

So you have to decide if the the folding

thing is really that important to you. If

you really care about the functionality of

being able to fold it like that, it's a

cool little party trick, I guess. But in

reality and real life, I don't know how

much practicality this feature actually

has. So I'm going to have to rate this

phone a 4.2 out of 10. Can't really

recommend. I'd rather get a cheaper phone

like an iPhone 12 mini, which costs way

less and does everything this phone does,

just not folding.