let's face it iphones are great but absolutely everybody has one so if you want something
a little special something that's maybe gonna stand out from the crowd
you've gotta look somewhere else from apple these days the good news is
the phone i have in this box is the phone apple wishes it was ready to make this
is the phone that's gonna make iphone owners around you see them with jealousy
so what phone's in this box let's find out
in case you couldn't guess this is the phone i was talking about the galaxy zed flip 3 or z flip
3 if you prefer sorry i'm british you're gonna have to deal with it this is the latest foldable
phone from samsung and it really is something special there's no such thing as a foldable iphone
yes everyone wants a foldable iphone everyone expects there will eventually be a foldable iphone
but until then samsung is the company making funds that fold the best and actually shipping them
worldwide unlike a couple of the other chinese competitors in the space mobile phones are a
gimmick though right no one needs a foldable it's not reliable they're just not as good the
screens are rubbish sure that was the case a couple years ago anyone who wanted to buy the
first zed fold even the first dead flip they were taking her a chance they were doing that kind of
risky early adopter thing that's just not the case anymore zedford 3 is absolutely a finished final
competitive flagship phone that can stand its own against any android rival and even against
this year's iphone 13 models for one thing that's the price it's now only and i say only
but bear with me only 999 dollars yeah that's not cheap i know but this thing used to be 1400
so that's a huge drop in price all of a sudden this is around the same price as an iphone 13
pro that means it's reasonable for a high-end flagship what are you getting for that 999 bucks
well for one you're getting this whole new design completely reimagined by samsung after its first
gen the core hardware the shape that sort of clam shell foldable that stayed the same but we've got
a whole new set of colors including this cream finish and in fact you can now customize these
colors online to make it a bespoke version of the zed flip that suits your exact tastes or those of
someone you want to gift one to we've also got a much bigger cover display which is this little
alphabet you can now use it to check notifications but also to access widgets music controls set
alarms and timers check the weather even respond to messages all of that without opening the phone
once you do open it and you want to use it you've got a snapdragon 888 5g chipset that
is the second best chipset on the market right now from qualcomm and the better one is the 888 plus
and there's really about that much in it if you go for the cheaper model the 1000 one you're gonna
get that paired with eight gig of ram and 128 gig of storage but you can double the storage if you
don't mind spending a little extra in addition to that you're getting lots of little flagship
features you would expect from a phone this price but didn't always get with foldables for one
there's wireless charging which is a mercy because admittedly the regular charging is a little slow
at only 15 watts but still that's about what iphones do anyway the bigger change this year
is waterproofing the galaxy z3 has an ipx8 rating which means it's not dust protected which kind
of makes sense given that little hinge we've got going on there but it is waterproof i don't know
how they made a foldable phone waterproof but they did and kudos to samsung for figuring it out
the hinge itself is also pretty sturdy because i know that's a big problem people are gonna
have in fact this one i'm holding right here i already managed to drop once while i took it
on holiday and yeah it took a little dent but it kept on ticking this thing is working fine
the hinge still moves flawlessly this is a sturdy phone and it's a lot tougher than you might think
a foldable phone would be this isn't that kind of fragile phone you really have to baby around
and the glass on the outside is gorilla glass victor so that's tough too it should stand up
to scratches and drops so if samsung has fixed all of this are there any drawbacks to the z-flip
i mean other than the price yeah there are admittedly a couple the battery life isn't
phenomenal it will last a day but not a lot longer so you've got to be comfortable with that
this is not a phone for power users there's also the camera the camera here is good
but it's not great if you're spending a thousand dollars on a phone yeah you could go buy one
with a better camera and and yeah i'll admit the iphone 13 pro max at about the same price
does have a better camera but the 13 pro max doesn't do this and it doesn't do this
so i'm not sure why you'd want that over this phone i don't want that over this [ __ ] i test
almost every phone that comes out in a given year i have cupboards swimming with smartphones i am
inundated with phones and this more than any phone that's come out in 2021 is the one that i want to
use every day this is the phone that i love and this is the phone that i think you will love