Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 - HONEST Review After 5 Days...

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So I've been using my brand new Z Fold 6

for about 4 or 5 days now, and I wanted to

make a review talking about do I regret

buying it, what it's like, is it the best

phone I've ever used?

Uh, yes.

So originally I was using this iPhone 12

Mini that I bought back in 2020, and as

you can imagine, the screen is extremely

tiny.

The great thing about it is that it is

really small, really light, and really

pocketable.

So when you go outside, you put into your

pockets, you really don't feel that it's

there.

And I was kind of against the idea of

having a bigger phone because you put it

in your pockets and it's like a massive

brick.

And this Z Fold 6 is quite a chunky

device.

It is quite thick, and it is about double

the weight of this iPhone 12 Mini.

And when I put it in my pocket, it is kind

of heavy, and you do notice it there.

But I don't really put my phone in my

pocket that much because I don't really go

outside much, and I prefer having the big

screen over the pocketability of the

iPhone 12 Mini.

That's why I decided to get myself a

foldable phone.

And also, you can have this video as your

lock screen wallpaper, which is pretty

cool.

Don't think you can do that on iPhone.

There were some complaints that the Fold 6

is not that much different to the Fold 5,

and I guess I can kind of see the point.

The main differences would be things like

the design is massively different, it's

much thinner.

The cameras are basically the same as the

previous Fold 4 and Fold 5.

You do get a faster CPU, so you get the

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and the Fold 5 has the

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, so it's slightly

faster in terms of processing speed.

The battery size is also the same as the

Fold 5, so again you've got 4,400

milliamps.

But because of the new processor being

more efficient, it's going to be slightly

better battery, so you're going to have

longer battery life in the Fold 6 than the

Fold 5 and Fold 4.

The AI capabilities— so Samsung AI is

actually powered by Gemini, which is

Google's AI, and you actually have Google

Gemini AI built into the phone itself if

you swipe up from the corner.

You get this little pop-up which is Gemini

AI.

So even things like the sketch-to-image

AI, all the AI stuff, it's all basically

Google Gemini AI.

Samsung hasn't really got its own

built-in-house AI of its own.

As for the cameras, yeah, they're

basically the same camera system from the

previous Fold 5, so you're not really

going to get like a latest up-to-date

camera system.

If you want the best cameras, you're going

to have to go for something like the S24

Ultra.

That's like Samsung's main ultra flagship

phone, and I'm guessing that they think

that if you want the best cameras, they

want you to get the S24 Ultra and not just

put all the best things into the Fold 6,

because now that will make all of their

other phones obsolete.

So if you have a Fold 5 or even a Fold 4,

then it might not be worth upgrading to

the Fold 6.

But I'm coming from the original Fold.

Last time I had a foldable was 2020.

I had the very first Samsung Fold, and

comparing the first Samsung Fold to the

Fold 6 is like night and day difference.

The difference is amazing.

The design, the build quality of this

latest Fold 6— I mean, look at this thing.

It's absolutely amazing piece of

engineering, the way there's no gap when

you close it.

I mean, the original Fold had a massive

gap in the hinge when you closed it, and

it was so ugly.

So this thing is gorgeous to look at and

hold, and it feels great in the hand

coming from the original Fold and also

coming from an iPhone 12 Mini, which came

out 4 years ago.

To me personally, the upgrade has

definitely been worth it, and the cameras

are great for me because I'm not used to

having such a great up-to-date modern

camera system.

I wouldn't really say the battery's bad.

I don't know why people are complaining

about the battery life being poor.

I think it's really great.

I can use it for about 6 to 7 hours before

I need to charge it again.

So I charge it once a day.

I use it in the morning until about 5 PM,

and then I do need to charge it because it

gets down to like 10%, and then I charge

it back up quickly.

It takes like half an hour to charge from

0 to 50%, and it takes about an hour,

roughly 1 hour, to charge from nearly dead

to basically nearly full.

So it doesn't take long, it's just like an

hour of it plugged in, and I have a high

wattage charger.

Problem is the charging is not super fast.

I think it only has up to about 25 watts

of charging.

So even if you have a powerful charger

like a 120-watt mega charger, it's still

going to take an hour at most.

I mean, the fastest it can charge to full

is going to be like an hour.

Wireless charging is not very good.

I have a wireless charger when I put it on

the wireless charger, it says it's going

to take like 2.5 hours to fully charge,

which is just really slow.

So I usually just plug it into my fast

charger.

And I'm using the phone a lot.

I'm not just doing light uses, just a

couple texts, browsing here and there.

I'm actually on the phone all day long

because it's such a nice big display.

Usually I use my laptop 'cause I've got my

big monitor plugged into my laptop.

I've got a 32-inch curved gaming monitor.

And that's where I used to do 90% of my

computing stuff.

But now I just sit back in my chair and

I'm like, I'm like this all day long, just

doing what I usually do on my laptop.

I do it on my phone now because this

display— and I just sit here like this.

I'm like this, sitting here with it in my

hand because it's so light.

And I'm multitasking.

I've got YouTube playing at the top corner

because you can do the pop-up floating

screen on Android.

Good thing about Android is when you've

got YouTube Premium and you minimize the

YouTube app, so you can do it like this.

Hold on.

So I can be watching YouTube like this and

it's really big.

Look how big that screen is.

And then I can just minimize it and now

I've got this floating pop-up that I could

resize, drag, move it around, and then

just put it to the corner and then open

other things.

Like I could go on Amazon, do some

browsing for things I want to buy, do some

messaging, and do some other things like

calculations.

And you can't really do that on the

iPhone.

The iPhone doesn't have the pop-up YouTube

player, which is kind of annoying and

really reduces your multitasking

abilities.

But one thing that really surprised me is

the taskbar and how great having a taskbar

is, also known as a dock.

So most phones have a dock, the iPhone has

one.

It's where you can drag some apps you use

the most to the bottom of the screen so

they're there for quick access.

The problem with the iPhone is when you

open an app like that, I've got Google

open, the dock disappears and you can only

get back to the dock by going back to the

home screen.

So if you want to like flip between your

favorite apps, you have to keep going back

to the home screen to be able to see the

dock again, or you have to keep swiping

left and right to open the multitasking

bits, which is a bit fiddly.

On the Fold 6, you've got your taskbar at

the bottom, but when you open an app— so

for example, you've got Google open—

you've now got the taskbar, it's still at

the bottom of the screen like a Windows

computer or like an iPad or like a MacBook

experience.

You've always got your dock or your

taskbar at the bottom of the screen, and

I've never really realized how amazing

this is because now I've got all my

favorite apps at the bottom.

And basically, when I'm on my phone or any

kind of computer, all I do is I flip

between maybe 5 or 6 different apps or

programs.

So I'm constantly flipping between my

YouTube Analytics, YouTube, Google, my

stocks, chatting apps, shopping.

So I'm flipping between roughly 5 or 6

different apps, and it's just so useful to

have that taskbar at the bottom of the

screen all the time because it means I

never have to go back to the home screen

in order to switch between different apps.

So for example, I can be on Twitter like

that, and then I can just switch to

YouTube I can switch to Google, I can

switch to the stock market, switch to

calculator, back to YouTube, to Analytics,

to Twitter.

I can just keep switching between my

favorite apps.

You can put 8 apps into the bottom of the

taskbar, and it also has the recent apps

on the very right side of it.

So it will show you the apps you've

recently opened and closed so you can

easily switch back to them even if they're

not on the taskbar.

And this has just been so great because I

never have to keep going back to the home

screen.

I really love using this split screen app

function.

So you've got Google on that side and then

you want to bring up another app, so you

just drag it from the taskbar onto the

side you want to split it onto.

So I can split open Twitter and also have

Google on this side, so I've got 2 apps

side by side.

And because the Samsung is kind of like

long and narrow in one half, it's kind of

like having 2 phones side by side like

this.

So I could have this one going up and this

one going down, and I could have a

messaging app on one side, I could be

chatting to someone whilst also watching

YouTube on the left side, or scrolling

Twitter on the left side whilst I wait for

them to reply to my message.

You can also minimize apps and make them

into like a floating pop-up.

So for example, I've got the calculator

open here, and if you drag down from the

top corner like this, it will create this

gray box like that.

And now it will minimize it and create a

floating window, and I can grab it by the

handle and drag it around.

So I could have it floating on top of

other apps if I wanted to add in some

numbers whilst looking at an app that's on

full-screen mode.

You can do that as if it's like a Windows

computer, which is extremely useful.

And I feel like this is only possible

thanks to how big the screen is.

I would not want to do multitasking like

this if the phone was just like a normal

regular phone screen.

So the external display, yeah, it is very

narrow and very long, and I would not want

to do multitasking stuff on such a small

narrow screen.

Even on a regular size phone, like a

normal form factor phone, the screen is

just too narrow to want to be able to do

multitasking stuff.

So I use the external display if I'm on

the toilet and I just want to use one hand

like that.

And if I'm in bed, like, I have the phone

under the pillow, I'm not going to open it

up big screen.

I'm going to use the one-handed smaller

screen just to check my messages.

If I wake up very early in the morning, I

want to just quickly check stuff.

And also it's got this cool thing where

you can customize the side button to open

any app you want.

So I've got it currently set to open the

calculator.

So I double-click it and it'll open the

calculator, but you can also change this

to open other things.

Now I've changed it so when you

double-press it, it's going to open the

torch or the flashlight.

Look,

see?

And now I've got easy access to my

flashlight just by double-pressing it.

Really useful.

So we have to talk about the price point.

I know this is an expensive phone, £1,800

for the base model, And yeah, it's pretty

expensive, but it's kind of like an

all-in-one device.

With this phone, you don't need a tablet,

you don't need multiple phones, and I feel

like I don't even need my laptop computer

anymore.

I barely use my laptop anymore because

everything's just so nice to do on this

phone, and I can relax.

When you're on a computer, you're like

sitting in your chair, mouse and keyboard,

staring at the monitor.

It's kind of like you're working.

But with this, it's like you sit back in

your chair like this

I sit back and you're just tapping away,

enjoying stuff, not worrying about any

problems, and it's just a much more

relaxing experience.

I feel like I don't even need my laptop.

I only need it because sometimes I do like

PC gaming, and the gaming is not great on

this.

So it is good for gaming, I mean, the

processor is very fast and very capable,

but it's no PC gamer, is it?

You've got rubbish Android games, you

don't have any decent games on Steam.

I really wish they'd make a phone where

you can play Steam games on it and not

just rubbish Android games.

You've got games like Genshin Impact and

Wuthering Waves and what's it called, ZZZ.

They're all clones of the same game, all

the same thing, the same gameplay,

spamming attacks, running around like

anime world, and they look great but

they're just really boring and not fun

games.

I want some fun games on this.

There's no fun games on the Android store.

I don't want to play Minecraft, I don't

want to play PUBG Mobile.

I don't want to play these mobile versions

of PC games, I want to play PC games.

So it is a shame because I think this

could be a great gaming device.

If you like emulating older games, then

you can do that on this and it'd be great

for that, but I'm not really interested in

old games.

I want to play the latest and greatest

games, and if you want to do that, Android

is just not a very good platform.

But that's not the fault of the phone,

that's the fault of just mobile operating

systems.

I would love a phone where you have

Windows on it, for example.

I don't know why Windows or Microsoft

doesn't make a Windows phone that has

full-blown Windows on it.

I mean, you can do it.

You've got stuff like the Steam Deck and

ROG Ally, but those are handheld gaming

devices.

If they made those but in like a

smartphone form factor, I think that would

be a great device.

They should make it like a Steam phone,

which looks like a phone but it has Linux

on it and you could play Steam games on

it.

That would be so good.

So yeah, in conclusion, I'm really

enjoying the phone.

I definitely really like it.

The big screen is so nice.

I can never get enough of opening this up

and then just enjoying this massive big

square screen.

It's so great to look at.

Cameras— I think the cameras are fine,

they're great.

Battery's fine.

Is a bit of an expensive phone, but if you

live with your mum, you can afford it

because you don't have to pay for rent or

for food.

I give this phone a 9.2 out of 10.

Definitely the best phone I've ever used.