Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 Real-World Test (Day in the Life Review)

I take the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 our for a day in NYC while making way too many book-themed references. Come explore with me while we test out the new foldable.
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[@danmac07]

Always love watching your videos, David. The tech aspects are great, but the additional history / tours you do make them top notch! Thank you for all you do!

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you! So glad you like my weird little format :)

[@javezkeith2537]

Loved the adventure into the secret world of exclusive library and bars as libraries. The pinky plonky piano loop added to the atmosphere.

[@rameshvasudevan2176]

Such a thoughtfully curated video with the book theme. Brilliant as always

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you!

[@azuree31]

Was waiting for this for a while now David. A decade on iOS now converting to Fold 5. Love the curated video. Kudos!

[@davidlowe4889]

Switched myself recently and love it. Bye bye iPhone.

[@hhhmmmmmmmm]

I’m thinking of the same. Offers so much more than iPhone.

[@funkam0nkey]

How did you find the switch. I’m thinking of the doing the same and would love to know how you’re getting on with the Fold 5.

[@rickybrunet2852]

I love the way you do your videos. I get a tech review of whatever gadget and on top of that, I learn about whatever NYC neighborhood or whatever place you're visiting. And the bloopers at the end are hilarious.

[@gauravbajpai9090]

The video concept is really a break from the mundane inside studio reviews. Great work, keep up the good work! Enjoyed the library theme walkaround for Fold 5

[@ignaciopaulito2186]

Enjoyed watching this awesome take of the Z Fold5! Great stuff as always, David!

[@graisinbrand]

Always love watching your videos, and its just a double bonus to join in on your history tours. It is starting to become a weekly thing that I now anticipate your day in the life reviews on my YT feed to be at the top of my watchlist, and between you and Mr. Mobile, your videos are now the first thing that I click! The tours are so great, and the food, drinks, and coffee shops have become a running list of places that I want to go and explore. But out of everything that your videos offer, I am always entertained by the ending! Unfortunately the interruption of your takes I am sure is an absolute headache for you, but just know that your pain is truly entertaining, at least for me. Especially in this video, that sums up New York driving in a nutshell. Keep up the great work, and the awesome reviews!!

[@Chockster612]

Been watching your reviews since you started and I can honestly say I enjoy them as much or even more today than I did when you started out! So thank you and keep on keeping on. ☕✅

[@gravedig1990]

All the little history lessons I've learned is one reason I keep coming back. It's also how learned so much about New York City before I got a chance to visit this past June.

[@harold6583]

Amazing as always mate, love seeing you gain ground while keeping your trademark themes and knowledge alive

[@juansantiago4442]

Nice...bloopers..... Keep them in all videos 😂

[@kencult]

what an awesome video. I've always love these "real world" tests from you

[@mad23151]

The Best review and exploring. The great two for one

[@Samuel-wh4yt]

Could you make a video talking about raw video on android? Motion Cam Pro And compare it with Pro Res

[@elghoulmouhamedfredj14]

Perfect as always, a very good video

[@sephugus]

As a retired librarian, I really enjoyed you review with the great book theme. NYC has so much to offer when it comes to libraries and the love of reading. Also glad that I got the Fold 5. It really feels lighter, and I do feel that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is better.

[@akarshJD]

He is at it again with no bullshit and truthful videos!!

[@hubby1160]

I love your real world test, me and the family are going to go back to New York again soon keep making them please...

[@EugeneKee]

Really love your review themes. Pls keep doing this quality reviews. ❤

[@himanshuagarwal0708]

love the unique and entertaining style of your videos! much love!

[@LakingyaJohnson]

I am obsessed with this review!!

[@doomedthunder6638]

Your content is always clean and informative.

[@CatIcarus]

I love this video style. Cool spots you showed!

[@atvega7]

Have been subscribed for a while now, love the format and look forward to them. Thank you for the content. Cheers

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you so much for being subscribed and watching this series 🙏

[@josedecendra814]

Will comment on you video… but first things first…😊 I like the format. Always think it’s a great way to differentiate from the rest! Keep it up!

[@michael4man83]

Loved the book themed video, keep up the great work!!

[@TheUnlockr]

Ha, not too much? 😂

[@carltonfludd7064]

Great video! The best day in the life, real world videos! Also, the best music of any KZbinr.

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you!!

[@tyronesmithjr3256]

Man, i really enjoy your videos. It's just a different vibe.

[@leandrohidalgo1768]

wow bro i love the way your produced edited and directed this video. its more than just a review video...feels like I'm traveling with you.. keep up the good work

[@QUARTERMASTEREMI6]

Oh yeah, I agree - it feels a lot more authentic and imperfect (in a good way) compared with other KZbin reviews. 🙂

[@evans-4]

love the bloopers

[@Goonsquad2012]

Battery life is real good on the fold 5

[@TheRakeshArora]

This is the review I was waiting for!

[@kgvertu]

Oh books, foldable… ah! Brilliant as always David!

[@frankr111th]

Another great review. Man, seeing the Village streets brings me back to my high school and college days.

[@LouisCaputo]

Love this style of phone review!

[@artybell1990]

Love books. love Z Fold. Great video and the idea of.

[@poppyscorner7370]

Love your format. Your my favorite youtuber.

[@johnboy8705]

Best videos on KZbin......period!!

[@christopherwalton3565]

Great video as per usual

[@bjriag]

Enjoy the exploring you do.

[@eahughey]

I enjoy the videos and the sound interruptions at the end are always funny.

[@mariaelenacabrera9721]

Loved the video as always. “Stop beeping“ 😂 I’m curious, what is the device you always come back to when you finish reviewing a new phone?

[@ryonakamura1330]

I appreciate the fun and unique places you travel to David! I want hidden staircases in my house so I can appear and disappear at parties haha

[@venci005]

ow sweet, a video on a tuesday morning 🙂👍🏼 thank you and i can’t believe that phones today have an incremental update and changes.. here we go in the ending 😂😂

[@vapegang1059]

I only watch reviews of phones after I already bought the phone loving the fold 5 upgraded from s21 ultra plus downgrade on camera but the folding glass is a flex 👌 lol

[@memwasfred]

You had to ask so I will respond...still enjoy watching these kind of videos from you David..keep them coming.

[@djgrilli]

The outtakes are always hilarious 😂😂😂😂. Keep up the awesome work!!!!

[@TheUnlockr]

😂 thank you!

[@UpNorthMI]

So well done, as usual.

[@Chemy.]

I am still thinking the reason Samsung dominates the foldables market is mostly for the arrangements they make with the carriers, here you can buy foldables from Huawei, Honor, Oppo and Motorola but only Samsung's are sold with carriers plan so you can pay it in installments, with reduced price, no interest so I feel that makes a huge difference, but it doesn't take that Samsung is actually doing good devices. As always great video, liked as always Sir

[@TheStreetMechanik]

Don’t change a thing it works the way it is. I look forward to these videos.

[@TonyPazo216]

I personally love your real world videos and the bloopers at the end rock 😆

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you!

[@chasrifflord]

This is the real-world test video of the fold 5 that I was waiting for. I always appreciate all the hard work you put into these real-world test videos. I have the fold 4 and will be keeping it until the fold 6. I hope that samsung will make the outer display a bit wider and put a bigger battery in it

[@johantiefenbach5310]

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

[@1Stunned]

Totally agree @chasrifflord

[@jeromegold3216]

Great job as always.

[@ElectricC0mpany]

Perfect timing. I'm returning my Pixel Fold because I get bad reception. Now thinking about the Fold 5. Was using the Fold 2.

[@lauriew2907]

You are up there with the best on KZbin David...

[@jlr_]

What's your camera set up like? With the all traveling you're doing, curious how you're keeping things light.

[@AngelTorres-ot4mr]

Good job with the review and the education about history and places. They are beautiful then. You are a great job. Keep going. In the meantime, you review and we learning something that we should be late. Thank you

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you so much!

[@RobMartinez1985]

I had been waiting for your video since the day I pre order my Fold 5. Would love to have you life style in New York. Dallas doesn't compare to NY. Thanks for your videos.

[@hojomoone]

Great stuff! Simple solution: go out on a day with no traffic!! 🥴 As always, pressure on David, more please 😊

[@Gilraen15]

Thanks for the info and review of the Fold 5, but also showing us the great places in NY centered on Books!

[@SimonSky.]

I would suggest that you stop filming on busy streets but the outtakes are too entertaining! 🤣

[@nemberma]

Love these style of videos. But if you want some feedback on what to improve, then maybe a bit more focuse on the actual devices. Just a bit. I was expecting a lot about the book theme that you review how nice it would be to read a book from the fold 5 and things like that. 😊

[@shadowinthemirror]

The outer display is for quick actions, like reading emails, text messages, scrolling through Twitter. The inner is more for productivity. Hense why the pen doesn't work on the outer screen.

[@T3CHGY007]

Ok I am here! Let the real day test begin!😂 Of course with coffee and danish in hand!

[@seankemplay6861]

great video, agree that samsung need to innovate more to leap ahead of rising competition

[@waseemal3951]

Man, I need to visit NYC one of these days.

[@jecksonng]

Love the s23ultra

[@iSucrose]

Do you think the software and hardware provide users with an experience similar to what they would have with a regular phone?

[@miguelangelbilbao6650]

Hi. How about signal strength?

[@malidan3895]

Im sure there are more changes in the Fold 5 then what we saw on the Pixel 7 series and maybe even the upcoming 8. The two most important upgrade for me are two you can't see, 1. Shick absorption layer. 2. Aluminium Armour. These makes the Fold 5 easily the most durable on the market, when you outlay this kind a money on a mobile device thats the kind if reassurance you want. Samsung patented the flat folding hinge in 2016 so they had an obvious reason for not using it , the fact that other oem hinges have proven not to be great maybe the reason why.

[@TheStrategyWargamer]

I feel bad. Lived in NYC for almost 30 years and haven’t visited a fraction of the places you been LOL.

[@PeterArnold1969]

Dave, how did a normal day give you less screen on time than a test day with more camera usage?

[@romanispas1824]

I changed from Fold 2 to 5th model and I can say that the changes are great! The only two downsides are: the camera from inner display is awful - better not to hide it to lose quality (as a work around you can always use the selfie camera from outer screen). The worst thing that I cannot coop with, is the finger print button - you can't set it up to slide the menu down with the swipe of the finger - like I did on my Fold 2. The screen is too tall and it is not always comfortable to reach the finger to the top of the screes not trigger the menu.

[@loitersquadX]

I am getting this phone just because KZbin and movies and games. Nothing else

[@mxmus08]

Yup, I like the history lesson/tour/ review mesh. Who the hell has a ringing phone, or was that a house phone?

[@omkaramonkar4024]

bro i have just question ...for next z fold ...i.e 6 will they give latest camera, upgrade battery and other top notch features ....as its costing a lot....waiting for your reply as i am planning to purchse the Z fold

[@Nighthawk-8050]

I'm glad I subscribed to your videos. COFFEE CHECK 😂

[@TheUnlockr]

Thank you! ☕️✅

[@tidus1ph]

Nice!

[@TwoTwenty7]

Come to Chicago for a real world test!

[@xreborncjayy5810]

Do y’all own cars in nyc or just Uber or train or bike or just scooter everywhere

[@Avgeek1564]

Please do one with the Honor Magic V2, it's a better and cheaper option to the Samsung.

[@reece5634]

Kinda torn between the OnePlus Open and the ZFold 5. Just wished the outer screen in the ZFold 5 was wider, like the OnePlus Open.

[@bella5569]

Now I want a fold 5 and to move to NY :)

[@JadeFicca]

It is a narrow phone but I don't seem to have the problem everyone talks about with it being too narrow to type easily. I see what Samsung was thinking. It's a phone with two modes. Easy one hand usablity and perfect two hand usablity.

[@majtechtings]

Have this phone. First foldable. Love it. Pixel fold comes this week (i had to.) And I'm gonna have them duke it out for daily folding driver. Great work as always.

[@anthonyl.cawthornesr.7226]

Zfold 5 same as last need to make screen bigger but overall a nice phone

[@BobbyG3.14]

new sub & fellow KZbinr, love your video and will be checking out your other offerings. Stay blessed brother

[@brahmanggi]

nice

[@bug_on_internet]

Coffee check ☕😀👍

[@kreigerbailey3550]

Portland, JAMAICA in the Building!!! 👑🇯🇲🔥💥🌟⭐💯💎

[@ff_cobrapro7557]

Whats the battery life you get on heavy usage??

[@rockstar6790]

I like that the review is themed around books when it's a foldable phone review. However, I wonder why Samsung doesn't bring the cameras from S23 Ultra to the Fold 5. For a phone that does everything (and commands top dollar), I expect the Fold 5 to have all the bells and whistles (which include the best cameras). The software to improve image quality can do so much, but it felt like a cost-cutting measure.

[@joeyjoey7972]

the 10 X optical zoom takes alot of space and adds weight.

[@billiop]

The cameras are amazing Night videos are grainy and lot of noise

[@szewei85]

Haha nice. 2024 foldables will be more intense competitively. Hahahaha. I believe it will.

[@callan69]

I use flex mode for apps & gaming but for videos I make it full screen in flex mode it's pointless having half a screen in flex mode

[@phero6933]

I really want them to make the front screen wider. It's just too narrow for my liking

[@billiop]

Leaks suggest fold 6 to do so..

[@ChingSungDennisKong]

Totally agreed

[@Sheenifier]

About a centimeter or two? I like it's size surprisingly! I don't love it, but when I handle it with one hand its pretty good. Now I have a case on so idk if that contributes to it, but it passes for me

[@apicharjiratanan4285]

did i just hear the matrix ring tone?

[@victuringan1429]

Still can't manage to use that narrow screen. Feels like using a remote! Also the app optimization sucks! 90% of the apps I use literally looks like an overblown version of mobile app.

[@AaronCrawford]

Didnt Samsung innovate by bringing foldables to the market? What has Apple done? Talk about incremental upgrades...

[@majtechtings]

Preach!

[@AaronCrawford]

@@victuringan1429 Apple?

[@victuringan1429]

Innovate by releasing half baked products and charging $2k lol innovation at its finest.

[@AaronCrawford]

@@victuringan1429 Have never paid $2K for a Samsung foldable. Chinese ones on the other hand...

[@majtechtings]

@@victuringan1429 is this before or after being strong armed into hardware features by an entire continent that they had no intention of ever putting on their phones and are rumored to still have stipulations to utilize it at its best yet will still act like they did so for their customers despite bashing it publicly and ignoring said customers who've been asking for it for nearly a decade? Asking for a friend...