Samsung Z Flip 5 Review: I Was Wrong!
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    • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
      65·
      10 months ago

      AI summary cause I can’t be bothered either lmao

      The video reviews the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 folding phone. While initially skeptical that it was just a minor upgrade, the reviewer found that the Z Flip 5 has some notable improvements over the previous model, especially the new Snapdragon chip and a simplified hinge that folds completely flat. The biggest change, however, is the much larger external screen, which allows for more notification management and app usage without opening the phone. Though not perfect, the reviewer concludes that the Z Flip 5 is currently the best folding phone overall, praising its performance, design refinements, and reasonable price point for those interested in foldable devices.

      • SuperFola@programming.devEnglish
        33·
        10 months ago

        Damn, I had to watch the video to compare with the review (I’m very skeptical of anything AI), and this is right on point

        • LostDeer@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I knew it was right without watching the video as his videos, especially phone reviews are all about the same and sound like that.

      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        Not a long time ago i found a webpages where you put a youtube vid and you get a summary of it. I mean it’s not that hard, ytdl download the subtitle, give it to AI for summary and voilà ! Don’t need to waste 20 minutes of your life for what can be summerized in 10 lines. I’ll probably try making a bot for lemmy.

          • Myro@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Oh wow, you sent me down a rabbit hole! That’s a great tool. Then I realized it requires an account, as it is a paid service. And their main service is a search engine, which seems really interesting so far (you get 100 searches free). Love the customization options! What’s your experience with the result quality? Not a huge fan of having to 0ay by search once beyond a threshold, but if the service is good…Google got super annoying with all the ads. But there’s still companies like Duckduckgo that offer great search as well.

      • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        I hate that I’ve used chatGPT so much I can instantly recognize when something was generated by it lmao

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          So much for schools and their expensive AI detecting programs which don’t work.

          • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            That’s the funny thing. Once you use it so much you can instantly recognize when something was generated by it based on its frequent usage of certain words or formats. Dunno why I’m being downvoted for that. It’s true.

            • quortez@kbin.social
              3·
              10 months ago

              Humans may be made irrelevant in places, but you can’t say they’re bad at (broadly) recognizing patterns

    • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      34·
      10 months ago

      I can’t stand him either anymore. The production quality is high but the content feels very low effort and subjective. I especially cannot stand the zoom in thing as if he’s saying something impactful or profound. What’s worse is many of the similar channels are adopting it.

      I guess that’s the life cycle of a YouTube channel: Quirky and interesting -> gain traction -> adapt content for wider audiences to maintain growth -> become bland and lose the thing that was interesting to begin with

      • twistedtxb@lemmy.caEnglish
        35·
        10 months ago

        When he started his channel, phones were out on a monthly basis with revolutionary tech each time.

        The smartphone tech has more or less reached a plateau. I think he’s trying to stay the same, but the products he reviews are less interesting

        • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          You’re right, there is just not that much to be said about the 15th iPhone release we have seen year after year. And he has been branching out with the car videos and checking out other tech every now and then.

          I wouldn’t even mind the different subject, as you said phones are just not as interesting as they used to be. But these videos are very surface level, basically just watch him read the product page for a cool expensive thing.

          • ImaginaryFox@kbin.social
            2·
            10 months ago

            I’m not subscribed to anymore phone youtubers anymore for probably that reason. At the height of Android youtube I was subscribed to MKBHD when the tech was fresh exciting, and then subscribed to people doing custom roms or app recommendations.

            But, now days when it comes to tech youtubers I prefer ones that at least go through the motions of seeming like they are being objective like Gamers Nexus or Hardware Unboxed or Digital Foundry by putting on a show of testing different configurations and so on. Lot of other tech youtubers just feel more like adverts lot of times with how shallow the presentation is, so whether product is recommended or not feels more like the purpose is to just get the brand out to viewers.

            Which becomes really noticeable when they cover a product that you do actually use and watch their review on, and see how much stuff they glossed over with really the main highlight being nice cinematography. Videos aren’t even straight to the point and short either, which is really part of why I stopped watching lot of them. If they at least were more straightforward and brief 2-3 minute overviews it’d be fine, but now they all push 10 minutes and over so waste your time.

      • notenoughbutter@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        yeah, I’ve always found smaller youtubers doing better

        maybe its because smaller ones are more genuine as they are not doing this for money meanwhile largeer ones who have this as their defacto job always have the same narrative, I mean a mkbhd video, mrmobile video sound basically the same they don’t talk about long term use of a phone and always give impressions

        the only review they have made is mkbhd on why I don’t use pixel anymore and mrmobile on his z fold experience

        everything else is impressions with cool shots which gains views and gets them a preview unit from companies weeks before embargo

        • ImaginaryFox@kbin.social
          2·
          10 months ago

          Random people holding a camera with one hand while awkwardly trying to record them going through their phone with the other hand has been more useful lot of times for answering questions I had.

      • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        10 months ago

        No he’s fucking not. He’s always liked Apple, just didn’t really get into them until the 5S. Been watching him since 2014, and even then he still said recently on the waveform podcast he prefers Android.

        Plenty of things to critique Marques over. This ain’t one.

        • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          I never hear him criticising Apple and everytime a new iPhone comes out he’s gushing. Yet iPhone sucks next to Android. I’d take a budget Android over iPhone any day.

          • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
            18·
            10 months ago

            That’s your opinion.

            I don’t really give a damn about the Apple vs Android argument anymore. I was there when the first iPhone came out in 2007 and I’m over it. This flame war has gotten old. There’s pros and cons to each platform.

            That being said, he has critiqued Apple many times in the past for specific things. Even said the dynamic island felt gimmicky at times and wasn’t sure how well it would hold up. Also shat on the Touchbar for being useless.

            So he has critiqued Apple. But let’s be real, what the fuck are you seriously going to critique on a modern iPhone? The modern smartphone has evolved so much that what else is there to add beside new hardware and sometimes gimmicky technology? You’d be hard pressed to find a “bad” phone now. I don’t get excited for iPhones anymore. Not because they’re bad. And yes you can critique the small things. But at the end of the day, an iPhone…is an iPhone. It’s not amazing or revolutionary anymore. There’s nothing else to implement. These phones are what we dreamed of back in 2010. Just all fucking screen and nothing else. Basically, the iPhone just “is”. And oh hey, here’s a bigger battery this year. Cool.

          • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            You don’t hear him criticising them because he got shadowbanned for doing it once. There were a couple reviews where he mentioned having to buy the devices himself.

            • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              10 months ago

              Got a source for this? Pretty avid MKBHD watcher and I’ve never heard of this happen to him.

              • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                As I said, there was a period when he kept saying. “I had to buy this myself” the source is his videos. Ask A.I. to squirrel them out.

                There was another guy that broke down the experience of falling out of favour with Apple and I can’t for the life of me find

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        My bigger issue with him is he doesn’t actually review phones. He just holds them and does dramatic shots, which in and of itself is fine, Mr Mobile does the same thing, but that’s all he does.

        All his videos are like watching the portfolio of a student videographer. Excellent camera work, with no actual real content.

        • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          10 months ago

          Yes, he’s kind of settled into a track in a way. I do think MrMobile does a slightly better job but for in depth reviews Juan Bagnell is very good.

          I’m glad he prefers Android but come Apple season he’s going to be gushing all over the new iPhone’s. I don’t hear much criticism of iPhone’s from him, even though they are way behind Android. Even budget Android phones are better than iPhone.

          • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
            9·
            10 months ago

            That’s a straight garbage take. You have an incredibly biased view of what better is. Better for you maybe, not better for everyone. Budget Android phones don’t get updated, and you can buy last years iPhone and outperform new android phones.

            • notenoughbutter@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              I mean it depends on what you call budget

              for the price of the cheapest iPhone se, you can get nothing phone or pixel, Samsung a something with 4,5 years of updates

              but if you really go budget, you still get 2-3 years of updates, for the price of a second gen iPhone se(2020) which would also get 2-3 years of updates

            • HidingCat@kbin.social
              1·
              10 months ago

              That’s a garbage take too, buy a Samsung budget A series, they get updated, and they cost half of last year’s iPhones too.

          • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Juan is really good and he does his best to debunk trending opinions. But because he’s a breath of fresh air, he doesn’t seem to get many review units and so he rarely reviews upcoming tech.

        • e-ratic@kbin.social
          4·
          10 months ago

          I remember a few years ago I watched him talk about how he would carry two phones for daily driving; An iPhone for taking photos and an Android for everything else, which just made my eyes roll. I get why for his career plus he has access to phones anyway, but I also feel like his expectations of a smartphone is far removed from an average consumer. Not that people don’t care about cameras - they do, but having the best camera is enough to be contender for flagship of the year for him. Is it really more important than the OS or the price?

          • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            Linus has said something similar. Having a good and quick camera is important to a lot of people.

          • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            I think you’d be surprised at how many people really obsess over having the best camera in their phone. Apple wouldn’t be spending the majority of their damn conferences talking about it now for nothing.

            I can also confirm this as I have family that is majority from Cali. All they do is take thousands of fucking photos on their iPhones and if my Mom upgrades, it’s usually because it “gets slow” or she wants the better camera.

            As a nerd it’s a shame, because if I could have a smartphone with no front facing camera and a shitty rear one, I would. But I’m in a minority.

          • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
            5·
            10 months ago

            Part of the issue, I think, is that we’re at a point in smartphones where improvements from the previous model are only really small incremental tweaks. A few Hz more refresh rate, a few more pixels on one of the cameras, a slightly different curve on the bezel… there isn’t a lot of dramatic innovation to report on most of the time.

            • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              That’s why I was so disappointed with Google’s Jedi thing. I wish they stuck with that.

          • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
            3·
            10 months ago

            But everyone has different wants and needs. For him all he cares about is that it doesn’t stutter and the camera is good. There’s lots of technical reviewers who care more about the camera and some that don’t care about the camera at all. Think of reviewers like Lemmy. There’s an instance for everyone.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            In fairness I have two phones. An iPhone and an Android.

            But I need an iPhone, well I need it’s depth sensor, the rest of it I don’t care about and I don’t actually have a sim in it.

            The Android I use for daily driving.

            So I get his point but at the same time I bought my iPhone second hand with a cracked screen because I only needed the depth sensor.

        • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          He does review them at least from what I’ve seen recently…but yeah, he has been a lot more hands off over the last two years or so. I’m not sure what’s happened. He used to be the king of tech back in 2017-2018. I started watching him in 2014, as a teen. For a long time people loved him and he was great, but more and more people now seem to dislike him. To an extent I get it. Something has changed in his content over the last two to three years I think.

          • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            He was the victim of his own success. Everyone copied his style and level of polish and now he’s not so unique or special

          • Sarcastik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Because he’s basically a glorified advert. He screws up basic product specs in the majority of his reviews. He’s in the pocket of major tech companies and Tesla. I watched him drool over Elon for years, while his Tesla spent more time on a tow truck than it did the road.

            He’s a corporate shill, who’s gone full form over function.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            I’m saying he doesn’t review the phone, at all.

            Showing a macro lens image of the phone with some water droplets on it does not constitute a review.

            • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
              4·
              10 months ago

              But he does, he goes through the specs, he talks about how he’s found the performance to be, including camera and speakers. Is that not a review?

              • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
                4·
                10 months ago

                Tech people love to gatekeep. His videos aren’t for you, so what? Move on. I happen to enjoy them, but I’m not going to buy something just because he reviews it. I’ll find a more technical reviewer if I’m interested. I don’t watch every gamers nexus video because I just don’t care about deep specs about every product. Just the ones I’m interested in.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        This is literally like the meme I just posted where it basically said, you can appreciate something and not agree with it. You think Apple shill because he has to play by their rules, yet objectively speaking, he’s always saying things like “incremental update” and “they say blah, but I haven’t seen that yet”. When it comes to Apple, it’s very read between the lines.

  • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    10 months ago

    The secondary cover screen is pretty cool, don’t get me wrong. And let’s be real, modern flip phones LOOK fucking cool. But…from a user perspective, is there anything a flip phone can do that your average phone CAN’T do? Besides flipping?

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        29·
        10 months ago

        My girlfriend said that and then put the phone in her purse anyway, and then can’t find it when it rings.

        • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Fine but there are plenty of us that refuse to carry a purse. Folding phones are helping with that.

    • randromeda@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      There’s no revolutionary advantages. They’re a bit easier to toss in your pocket and the outer screen’s limited functionality seems to be a good way to do things like check the time, check notifications, turn on/off smart devices, or switch songs without having to open the phone and potentially falling down an instagram/reddit/lemmy rabbit hole

      • canthidium@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I have a fold 4 which I love. Was thinking about switching to the flip so I went to check one out. All the reasons you listed where the things drawing me to it until I remembered I wear a smart watch and do all that already without taking my phone out. Then it became useless to me. The only benefit would be the small form factor when in my pocket but like I said, I have a fold, big phone in my pocket doesn’t really bother me. And the biggest thing in would miss is being able to set my phone down half folded and watch videos on the vertical half. A feature I didn’t think I would use but I do all the time.

    • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I had a Z Flip for a while but replaced it as the cameras were a deal killer. For me personally I liked how small it was in my pocket. I know it’s a small thing but that was my favorite part. When I replaced it, I gave it to my mom, who actually wears it around her neck with a lanyard. Sure, you can do that with a normal phone if you’re feeling adventurous. The benefits are definitely niche though.