Polished to Perfection？ ｜ Galaxy Z Fold 6 In-Depth Review

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

I've been using this brand new Samsung Z

Fold 6 for about 8 days now, and after a

week of using it as my main phone, I want

to talk about why it's a pretty good phone

and do like an in-depth review. So I don't

have my old phone anymore because I had to

trade it in to be able to get this for a

cheaper price. So this is my main phone.

I moved my SIM cards into it and I moved

all my apps and accounts onto this, so

anytime I need to do something that I

usually do, it has to be done on this

phone now. So yeah, I am officially a

daily driver of a big foldable phone,

which I never thought I'd have to say

because I've always been a big advocate

for small phones because I liked how they

go into the pocket and you don't really

feel that they're in the pocket because

they're so small and light. And I've

always kind of been against big phones

because of just how heavy and bulky they

are. But I have to say, this has been a

pretty great and interesting experience

using a foldable. So it does start to get

a little bit heavy if you're one-hand

using it like this for a lot of time. So

most of the of the time you have to open

it up and use 2 hands, which is fine.

It's more of a 2-handed phone, and you

want to be holding it like this anyway

when you're using it because you can

easily type quickly using your 2 thumbs.

And obviously you want to use the big

display 90% of the time. I'd say I use the

external display, the COVID display,

maybe 10% of the times. I only use the

COVID display when I just want to quickly

check my messages or quickly check

something, or if I'm in bed and I don't

really want to open it up to the big

screen and I just want to like quickly

check my notifications or emails whilst

I'm still in bed but I'm not ready to wake

up yet. The narrow long screen is actually

very useful for that because you'll be

lying on your side like that, and then you

have the phone kind of rested sideways on

the mattress, and it's very easy to reach

across the screen with your thumb because

of how narrow the screen is. So that

brings me on to my next point. I don't

know why so many people are complaining

about the narrow cover screen. It's not

actually that narrow when you think about

it. It only seems narrow because the phone

is tall. When you compare the external

display to my old iPhone 12 Mini, you can

actually see it is wider than the iPhone

12 Mini. I mean, the iPhone 12 Mini fits

inside of the external display, so I was

already used to using a display that was

this narrow already. It's just this

doesn't seem narrow because it's shorter.

So this is tall but it has the same width,

but because it's tall it seems narrow when

it's actually not. I don't really want or

need the external display to be wider. I

don't really care that much about the

external display. I bought a foldable

phone so I could use the big display.

That's the whole point of it. Next, I want

to talk about the price of this phone

because a lot of people are saying this is

way too expensive for just a phone. And

yes, it is kind of expensive. I think it's

£1,800 for the base model in the UK,

which is about $2,200, and that is a

lot of money for a phone. But you have to

think about it this way: it's not just a

phone, it's a phone and a tablet built

into one device. This This thing here,

that is not a phone. What kind of phone is

that big? This is a mini tablet. So you

have to think of it as, I want— you might

be a person who says, I want a phone and a

tablet. So you could buy a phone plus a

tablet, then it'll be about the same price

as this. So let's say you get like the

latest S24 Ultra, it's going to be like

£1,000 or something, and you also buy an

iPad because you want a tablet, like an

iPad Mini, that's going to be about £600

or £700. So you buy the phone plus tablet

Yeah, it's going to be £1,800, nearly

£2,000, which is the same price as this.

This is a phone and a tablet built into

one device. It is 2 devices in one. But

you're also paying for the premium of the

technology. This tech that goes into

building this phone, like the hinge— this

is not easy to make tech. It's taken years

and years of development from Samsung to

come up with a hinge this sophisticated

and this advanced to be able to create

this small package. So you're paying for

the premium of the technology and the

engineering that goes into the phone as

well. Also, if you buy a phone and a

tablet, then you have to have 2 devices,

you have to carry around 2 devices. Also,

I don't know what kind of tablet can fit

in your pockets unless you've got like

massive pockets that could fit a 6 or

10-inch tablet into it. And then yeah,

you gotta pack the tablet as well as your

phone, whereas with this you just pack

this into your pocket and you've got a

foldable phone and a normal size phone.

So it's like 2 birds in the one stone.

And then when it comes to gaming, it is

pretty good with gaming. I've been doing

some testing with gaming, got this

controller that fits into it, and you can

turn it into a pretty good gaming device.

And then people are going to say, why

would I get that when I just get a $500

Steam Deck? Uh, yeah, the Steam Deck is

going to play better games, PC games, and

be able to play more powerful games and

have better controllers. But the Steam

Deck can't fit in your pocket, it can't

take photos, it can't make phone calls. I

mean, you can browse the internet on it,

but you're not really going to get a Steam

Deck to browse the internet and check your

email and do stuff like that, are you? So

the way the way you have to think about it

is, yes, it's not as good or as good value

for money as a normal form factor phone

like an S24 Ultra or the iPhone 15 Pro,

and it's not as good as a regular tablet

because you can get cheaper tablets with a

bigger screen that's got better hardware.

And no, it's not as good as a dedicated

handheld gaming device like a Steam Deck

or ROG Ally, but it's all of those things

in one device. It's like jack of trades,

master of none. It's kind of like having a

little pocket penknife that can do lots of

different things, but it's not exactly the

best at doing each specific task, but it's

convenient and you can fit it in your

pocket. So if you think about it in that

way, then yes, I can easily say it is

worth the money. If you've got the money

to be able to spend on these gadgets,

then I don't see why not. As for the

cameras, I think they're fine. It's not

exactly the latest camera tech. It is a

few years old because the cameras are the

same cameras in the previous 2 Folds.

They have improved some things, like the

AI thing can make the photos look better

using processing. And you've got cool

things like you can use the COVID screen

as a viewfinder. So I'm using the

wide-angle lens, the external wide-angle

lens, and you can turn it on yourself and

you can like take a selfie of yourself

using the better cameras instead of using

the selfie camera, which is okay, but it's

just not as good as the main cameras. It

is cool you can use the main cameras to

film yourself like that as well with the

external screen. So yeah, it is a pretty

useful camera system even though it's not

the best in the market. So I'm going to do

a video test with the Samsung Z Fold 6

using the built-in mics of the phone and

just show you what it's like— the

stabilization, the focusing, the zooming.

So this is the 0.6x wide-angle lens.

As you can see, if I'm walking around,

yeah, it's pretty stable. The

stabilization is pretty impressive

compared to my older phone. So I'll just

walk up and down my room. You can see it's

pretty stable. And then you also have the

1x main lens, the standard lens, and this

is what you're going to use mostly for

artistic shots and low-light shots. And if

you get nice and close into the subject,

it blurs out the background quite nicely.

There's also video portrait mode which

artificially blurs out the background,

but it looks kind of scruffy sometimes.

So this looks pretty good. I mean, it's

pretty sharp, blurs out the background

really nicely. If you get nice and close,

I think it looks quite nice. And then

you've got 3x optical zoom.

This one doesn't look so nice, it's kind

of grainy. You really need to be outside,

or you need really good lighting for this

to be any good. I mean, for example, this

is the main lens, it's got 50 megapixels,

and then this is the 3x lens, which I

think it's only 12 or 10 megapixels,

so it's way less detailed. You see,

this is the problem with the Samsung Fold

6. They didn't put 50 megapixels on the

telephoto lens like some of the Chinese

foldables have. So yeah, the 3x optical

zoom, it's not that amazing. I mean,

this is 12x digital cropped-in zoom on the

telephoto, and it looks kind of rubbish,

to be honest. This is not usable.

It's so blurry,

really bad.

So that's the 1x,

but it switches automatically to the

telephoto when you start cropping in.

Yeah, that looks just pretty bad. So yeah,

for zooming, this is not the phone you

want. But if you don't really care about

having the max, the maximum, or the best

zoom, then I think this is fine really.

If you want the best zoom, then really you

want to get something like the S24 Ultra

or an iPhone 15 Pro. So yeah, it's a

little bit lacking in luster when it comes

to the camera systems. I give it a 6.2 out

of 10 for the cameras. If you don't really

care that much about photography and

taking videos, then I don't think you're

gonna really care. I personally don't

really use the cameras that much even

though I'm a YouTuber. I use my S10+ to

make my videos and it's completely okay,

so I'm not really too bothered about the

subpar camera system, although it would

have been nice to have better cameras

considering you're paying so much money

for this. But like I said earlier, this is

a jack of all trades, master of none, so

don't expect to get the best in-house

cameras when you get a pocket knife. As

for the AI software, the AI stuff that's

built into the phone, I don't really use

any of the AI. I find it kind of gimmicky.

It's kind of fun to mess around with it

for a bit, but I don't really have any

real-world use of this AI stuff. The

Gemini stuff is okay, but any phone can

use Gemini because you download it on the

Play Store. The sketch-to-image AI stuff

kind of fun at first, but I honestly don't

use it because I don't have any reason to

use it. And some of the AI stuff with the

photo editing, like the way you could crop

out people, erase people from the

backgrounds, erase yourself, and the AI

fills in the back— that is quite good and

quite useful. I think it would be good if

you actually went out and took some photos

and then you had a reason to use it, but I

don't really go out much, so I don't

really take any photos of anything. As for

the battery life, I think the battery

life's fine. The charging speed is a bit

on the slow side. It takes about an hour

and 20 minutes to fully charge it, but

it's not really a big problem because I'm

sitting at my computer all day anyway. I

just plug it in for an hour, top it up to

100%, and then it usually lasts me about 8

hours. I usually have to charge it again

around 9 PM or 10 PM before I go to

bed, and then I charge it to top it up.

So I go to bed, I put it under my pillow,

it drains, and then by the morning it's

like 50%, and then I plug it in another 30

minutes and it's fully charged again. So

yeah, the battery is not the biggest, but

it does last quite long even when I use my

phone quite a lot, and the charging speed

is a bit annoying. So I have to give like

the charging speed and the battery size,

uh, 5.2 out of 10. It's okay, but it could

be better. And as for wireless charging,

don't even bother. The wireless charging

speeds are so slow at 15 watts. It takes

about 2 hours and a half to fully charge

it using a wireless charger. That is way

too long. I always plug it into my

high-speed USB-C cable charger. So yeah,

in conclusion, I'd say this is a pretty

good phone. It doesn't really excel in

anything. It doesn't have the best

cameras, it's not the thinnest foldable,

it doesn't have the best battery, it

doesn't have the best anything really,

but But what it does have is it's a really

nice premium package in a nice well-made

package with a good hinge, good strong

hinge, with good software. I don't know

about the Chinese foldables. They have on

paper, they have the best hardware, like

the best cameras, best specs, but is the

software any good? I don't think the

Chinese software would be very good. And I

think Samsung just has refined their AI

and their software to a point where they

probably have the best software but not

the best hardware. And I think software is

more important than the hardware.