DO NOT BUY Samsung Flip 7 - VERY Disapppinting

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So as you can see, I have in my hands the

brand new Samsung Flip 7, and it came out

recently, just today actually, and I've

been playing around with it, and I'm going

to make a video about why it's not one of

the best foldable phones out there in the

market right now.

So as you may know, it came out with the

Fold 7 recently, updating the Fold and

Flip lineup of Samsung phones, and I

previously had the Flip 4 So this is quite

a substantial upgrade for me coming from

the Flip 4.

And as an avid fan of foldable phones and

Samsung phones in general, I knew I just

had to try this out.

Unfortunately, for several reasons, it's

been kind of bland, boring, and lacking in

a certain kind of luster.

It's also a little bit disappointing as a

phone and as a flipped phone in total.

So as you can see, there is a big external

display where you can actually put

different apps onto it.

Unfortunately, you can only put about 5

apps onto the external display, like

YouTube and Netflix.

If you want to get all the apps onto the

external display, you've got to download a

third-party app called MultiStar.

So as you can see, you've got these

widgets on the external display like that.

You've got a calendar and weather.

And with the built-in external display app

selection, you only get a few, like Maps

and YouTube.

You only get about 5.

So what you've got to do is you've got to

download something called MultiStar, which

is kind of annoying, and then it lets you

add any app to the external display.

The problem with this is the on a display

is kind of finicky and annoying because it

doesn't really open the apps properly.

So for example, this is one of the apps I

use quite regularly, IRL Pro.

So as you can see, instead of filling out

the whole screen, it just kind of opens up

this weird kind of bar letterbox with

black bars on either side.

So you've got this button here, you press

this one and it just stretches it.

So now it's all stretched and looks kind

of rubbish and weird.

You press it again, it can go there, and

then you've got these arrows where you can

move it alongside within the external

display, and it just looks kind of janky.

And also, my biggest problem with the

external display is that you cannot rotate

it.

So you rotate it like that, and as you can

see, uh, it doesn't rotate the orientation

of the app you've got open.

So as you can see, I've got it currently

like that, but if I want to flip it like

this, which is what you have to do to have

the cameras in the correct orientation,

then the actual app, like the writing and

the buttons in the app, don't also flip

around, as you can see.

So as you can see here, I've got the

YouTube app open on the external display,

and as you can see, it's like all to this

side and you've got a black bar here.

And then you can move it alongside like

that, see, and then you've got YouTube.

Or you can press this button here and that

will fill the screen.

So that looks pretty cool and everything,

but when you do that it does not

auto-rotate the app, so you've got to

watch it in that orientation.

What if you want to do that, or you want

to do that?

It doesn't rotate it, and there doesn't

seem to be any option where you can.

Yeah, so as you can see, when you pull

down the notification tray, there's no

auto-rotate button.

When you've got the phone opened on the

home screen there and you do this, there's

an auto-rotate button, but for some reason

they haven't included it on the external

display.

Notification center.

Really weird why they've done that, and

it's really annoying because sometimes,

like with the cameras, they need to be

facing that way, not this way, otherwise

it's going to be flipping you upside down

around the wrong way.

So that's kind of silly.

As for the cameras, you've got the

wide-angle, ultra-wide, and then you've

got a standard, uh, this is the main

flagship lens which they're very proud of,

and then you've got a 2x digital and also

up to a 10x digital, which doesn't look

amazing.

So you've got a 10x digital.

So you can see 10x digital looks really

grainy and rubbish.

So with the wide ultra-wide like that,

you've only got 12 megapixels, which is

not a lot of megapixels.

Actually, my S10+ over there has more

megapixels on the wide-angle camera.

So with the main lens, you got 50

megapixels.

Now I don't really like 50 megapixels I

think 50 megapixels is too many

megapixels, and it makes me look kind of

ugly.

I don't like it when there's so many

megapixels because it makes my skin look

really bad.

Now, you can't really see it on this

because you can't see my skin unless I

flip it around, but then you won't be able

to see.

But anyway, you see, 50 megapixels is just

too many megapixels in a lot of cases.

My other complaint is that it's very

difficult to use this one-handed.

As you can see, it is a very long phone.

And it's quite top-heavy as well because

you've got the cameras up there.

So when you try using one hand, it's not

the easiest phone to use.

And you've got some kind of— I don't know

what that is.

If you want to flip the phone with one

hand, you've got to kind of do that, and I

guess you can do it and it sits nicely in

your hand.

As for the price point of this phone, it

cost £950 for me because I got it on Prime

Day deal, so I got 10% off when actually

it's £1,050.

Any other time, which is quite expensive

for a phone that is not considered to be a

flagship phone.

And this is not a flagship phone by any

stretch of the standards.

Actually, if you want a flagship phone,

unfortunately you're gonna have to get the

S25 Ultra or the Fold 7 because this

doesn't count as a flagship phone.

So if you want a flagship phone, then

you're not really going to be getting a

flagship phone with the Flip 7.

You're going to be getting a Flip 7 flip

phone, which does have powerful specs, and

the cameras are pretty nice, but you're

not going to be getting top-of-the-line

cameras, and you're not going to be

getting top-of-the-line chip, and you're

not going to be getting top-of-the-line

hardware.

You're going to get kind of substandard

specs because it's not a flagship phone,

it's a flip phone.

So for those reasons and the expensive

price tag, you could get a flagship phone

like the S25 Ultra for probably the same

money or the less money, or maybe even

kind of smaller amounts of money than you

can get the Flip 7 for.

So if you want a flagship phone, you can

just get the S25 Ultra, which is cheaper

and has flagship specs, and you lose out

on the ability to flip.

So the only reason to get this phone is if

you want to flip the phone, which is the

reason why I got it, so I can put it in my

backpack, backpack, shoulder strap.

When I'm doing IRL streaming, I put my

backpack shoulder strap And then people

don't know I'm actually streaming, which

is pretty nice because I don't want to get

punched in the face for streaming.

So the reason why I got it is because I

wanted the flip feature.

Now if you don't care about the flip

feature, then you don't really need to get

a Flip 7.

You can just get the Fold 7 if you want

the folding with the bigger screen, or you

can get S25 Ultra which has better specs

and is kind of cheaper than this one, or

you can get the S25 which is kind of like

the S25 Ultra, but it's cheaper, but it's

smaller, and it doesn't have as good

cameras.

So if you want the best cameras and the

best specs without the super best price,

then you might as well get S25 Ultra.

So for those reasons, unfortunately, I

don't think I can recommend the Flip 7 for

everyone.

For some people, the Flip 7 is a great

little square phone with a nice form

factor that can fit in your pocket

and fit in most places where a lot of

other things don't really have the ability

to fit.

And it's got 2 little cameras and it costs

£1,000, so it's pretty good but not really

great for everything.

And for gaming, it's pretty good for

gaming.

Oh God, fucking hell.

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