We are talking about foldable phones whether or not you're going to get one here in 2022. Hit me in the comments below if you already have one or which one you have your eye on. And I figured this is a perfect time to talk about some of the newest releases. As far as foldable. Go. Now, if you guys have been following the channel, hopefully, you have, if not, go ahead, hit that subscribe button, I do own the Galaxy Z fold three, I have been loving it, probably more so because we are all kind of still stuck at home, for the most part, working from home. So my experience with this phone has been good. And probably because I get to use this inner display even more. But hopefully, there will come a point in time where we get more out and about. And that's where this phone kind of falls short with the outer display. Even though it's 120 hertz, it is still super narrow. And the aspect ratio is not ideal for most. So that is one of my major complaints about the phone. It's probably one of your major gripes about the phone.
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Samsung Z Fold 3 vs Oppo Find N vs Honor Magic V |
On top of that the crease in the middle of this phone, even though I've gotten used to it, is still very visible. And it can detract from other people being interested in the phone. I've had people tell me that they are waiting until their crease is gone. So hopefully Samsung is working on that I'm pretty sure they are. Because there's so much competition now and competition is really good. Things will heat up once Apple finally releases their foldable phone, which nobody has any clue when that'll be, even if Google decides to do their Pixel phone that was rumored. But until then, all we have is Samsung dominating the US market. But we do have some international options, which is kind of what's been catching my eye as of late.
So let's kind of get right down to it. GSM Arena is where I go. And I compare a lot of specs and take a look at different devices, especially those that aren't readily available. So right now you don't have a whole lot of options as far as competition for the fold here in the US aside from something like a surface duo serving as dual two, which is still a good device in its own right. If you're looking for something that's like a dual screen. So if you're used to using maybe a dual monitor setup, and you want your phone to mimic that experience, then I would suggest checking out the Microsoft Surface duo two. But just like anything else that one also has its weaknesses. Now enter the OPPO find which was as you can see released in late December.
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So I've kind of had my eye on this device. Shout out to Gigi. And if you guys don't follow Gigi make sure you do I know that she owns the OPPO fine. So this is a phone that you have to order. It's not something that you can just go into a store here to us like a Best Buy or something like that and purchase. But what it does is it kind of addresses some of my gripes that I have with the Z fold three, for example, the aspect ratio on the outer display. So we're looking at the displays here. As you can see, it does call out that the cover display, obviously is an amulet display, but it's almost five and a half inches.
So it's a wider display with an 18 by nine aspect ratio, which is a pretty good ratio and very usable. One downside is it is only going to be a 60 hertz display for that outer screen as opposed to the full three right here has the 120 hertz display but it is 6.2 inches which is a 25 by nine very narrow aspect ratio. So if you're going to be doing texting a lot and things like that, it does make it a little more difficult to use that outer display as opposed to something like this for the OPPO. Now, one other major difference is the inner display. So with the fold unfolded, you get a 7.6 inch display. And with the OPPO fine, you get a 7.1 inch display. So that one is almost like a square as opposed to my Z full so I love the Z fold aspect ratio internally the thing about is I could just turn this thing horizontally and get a very similar experience that I would with the apple.
And, if Samsung decides to minimize this crease, I'm thinking that all they have to do is make it so that the folding piece or the crease or the hinge is kind of done horizontally if that makes sense. So instead of having it fold here, you would have it fold here in the middle, if you turn it horizontally, so that would give it a bigger outer display. So now we're talking about this site is all display. So I would love to see them implement that. I don't know if they're going to do it. I guess we'll find out around August if that's going to come on like Dizzy fold for So more to come on that. But getting back to the specs here. So what are we losing though, so if I go after this oppo fine, which let me see if it has the pricing here? So right now I could get an oppo find from Amazon a 256. For the storage, eight gigs of RAM for 1797. Aliexpress has it for 1538 and the comparable 12 gigs of RAM 512 for the storage similar to my Z fold, which has the 12 gigs of RAM, but only 256 storage, you get it for around two grand.
So it's a tough sell, right? Because here in the States, you can get a Z fold three, I've seen it as low as 899 brand new from Best Buy. And that's without a trade ID, that's just you being able to upgrade the device. So the price has come down on the Z fold three, which is a whole nother video I want to do as far as how Samsung does their pricing. But either way, you're still probably getting a better deal now to just get the Z fold three. However, if you have to have this aspect ratio like I'm interested in, you're spinning at least 1500 bucks for because I've seen it as low as you can see here, the original price 1538. So eight gigs of RAM I can get for 1538 at various places if I order it, but I just don't know if I'm willing to give up certain things.
So like I said, it's only a 60 hertz for the outer display. It is not IP rated. So I would give up my little water resistance if I sold my Z fold three and got this guy. The camera quality may improve for selfies. But as far as the triple camera setup, even though it says is a 50 megapixel camera, I'm going to go out on the limb and say that the Samsung camera setup is going to be a little better on the Z fold three about the same processing power with the Snapdragon 888. So really, the main reason why you would want to go after this device is going to be that the outer display is more usable, and the crease is less visible. Alright, so those are my takeaways outside of, you know some special features like the navigation gestures, I know you can do like a two finger pull down to do the split screen, stuff like that. Now, another device that I wanted to talk about, and we'll go to it right now.
And it was just announced is a device by honor so let's switch over, see if I can get that to pull up. So we go over to our phones and we have the magic Wii or the magic five however you want to refer to it. And matter of fact, let's just we'll keep it this way. So if we look at the specifications of this device, this was just announced it is expected to be on sale as of January 18. As you can see it has a 7.9 inch inner display 50 megapixels once again for the camera, a lot even larger battery so the apple fine had a larger battery than the Z fold three and 4500 and this one is at 4750. So an even larger battery so hopefully battery life is really good on this device. Now this one takes it a different angle on the display. So if we're looking at the display options here, the cover display is 120 hertz, which is a good 6.4 or five inches which are even closer to that normal candy bar style outer display. But the interior screen, the larger screen is only 90 hertz. So it's almost a flip flop from the Apple fine.
So the Apple has a really good 120 hertz inner display. This one is going with a better outer display at 120 hertz. So this one is the largest of the three devices, it's going to be the heaviest at 288 grams as compared to the OPPO, which is 275. And I want to see the full three was 271. So this is the heaviest. So the largest of the three devices, like I said is due out January 18, they just announced it, you can get it a few different colors. No IP rating. And I don't see much mentioned about the pricing just yet. But I have to assume that it's going to be pretty close to the Apple price, which is between 1500 to two grand. Now, what I did see for this honor magic is the crease is less visible once again, compared to the full three. But the unboxing experience that I saw, I watched a couple of videos online already. And they include both the home and the car charger as well as a case with the kickstand. So as a bear to my Z fold three, which I had to purchase a separate case.
And so the magic, the honor magic is going to come with a case similar to this obviously without the S Pen, but have the kickstand included. So that is a really good price if it is within that $2,000 range to give you the chargers that you need as well as a case because you won't get that experience with this Z fold. You don't even get the charging brick at all, you just get a cable with this phone. So you probably get more bang for your buck if you can order this phone. So I don't know if it's going to be a China-only release for the honor magic. But it is very interesting. I just don't know if I'm willing to get a phone that's even heavier than this one because the Z fold three is already heavy in its own right. It takes some getting used to now that I'm used to it maybe wouldn't bother me as much. And I would like to have a larger cover display. But you know, that's one of the cons of trying to get one of these international phones because there's no way of trying them out. Right.
So you're buying at your own risk. Chances are you won't be able to return it especially if it ships internationally. Maybe it's if it's defective, they may let you return it. But otherwise, you're saying like here, take my 2000 or my 1500. And I'll just live with you know, whatever you guys send me. So what do you guys think I kind of tried to hurry up and go through a lot of these specs to give you an idea of what we're up against or what, what's out there what's available right now as compared to the Z fold three. So do you guys already own the Z fold three? Do you have any other folding devices I know I didn't talk about the flip phones? I am aware that there is also a new flip through Huawei which is even harder to get. So it's like the Huawei P 50 pocketable so I know that's a real thing but I'm not as interested in the flip style foldable phones as I am with you know the bigger candy bar style foldable such as the Z fold three.
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