Dankpods turned into DankTech so slowly we never even noticed

“BEnDs tHe LaWs oF PhYSiCs, BeNdS tHE LaWS oF-” I lost it

the fact that he hated on it and then 2 years later he actually has one

I bought one. SOBs at Samsung refused to honor the warranty. They said the warranty is void for not having a case. There wasn't a case at the time. 1. Crack screen line 2. Not going to stand by mode when close 3. Not waking up from stand by mode when open. $500 to repair it.

I can just imagine the Samsung engineers telling the higher ups that it’s not ready yet but they still sold it because they want to be the first ones

It’s a redesign of the old Nintendo ds. Two screens with a dead zone in the middle. Ah fond memories!

I think my favourite take on the foldable/dual screen phones is LG's dual screen case. It's an optional accessory that you don't have to use but it transforms a lot of phones in their lineup to dual screen ones all with a simple case. Makes web browsing and messaging at once amazing and there's no reason for one uniform display with a layout like that.

My gf has the z 4 and it seems they've ironed out most of the kinks. Though it says a lot that they're on the 4th gen when the first came out a year ago

Imagine people sending you snaps and you literally can’t read them because the caption is in the middle of the display

Samsung: "It bends the laws of physics!" Physics: "So anyways, I started breaking..."

I'd just like to share to all those getting recommended this video now. The flip in this video is the first gen, The newer ones (the 3 and 4) have removable screen protectors. So when the screen protector starts de-laminating in the crease(which is what happened to this one) you can easily peel it off, buy a new protector for about 10 bucks, and replace it. I have had my flip 3 for over a year now, and the only scratch on it is a tiny scratch on the back panel cause I set it on a rock without a case.

I think these phones look so cool, but I just don’t want to chance damaging it. I’m already pretty rough on my phone as it is.

Well done Samsung, You've made a Nintendo DS that runs Android OS.

Imagine if Craig made a flip phone

Fast forward two and a half years.' DankPods: I'm switching to the Galaxy Flip 😅

How the tables have turned.

"You're not just bending glass; you're bending the laws of physics." As a physicist, I take issue with that.

Mans forgot that the Blackberry was the biggest fruit based phone trend for like 2 years

I find it immediately funny as the video goes on, you can notice the bend damage become worse and worse.

Watching this on the flip 4. While still more delicate then I'd like, they've improved quite a bit

_"BeNdInG tHe LaWs oF FySiCs"_ Gets me everytime

Got a Samsung Z flip ad on this. Talk about irony

Very late to the party, but a phone like this that doesn't fold is what Sony currently sells. With a headphone jack, SD card slot, stereo speakers, water proofing and everything good you mentioned during this video

Never though i'd describe a snake as "cute". Baby Frank proved me wrong

Wasn't expecting him to review one of these.

The Surface Duo with a decent camera and any IP resistance rating would be amazing.

I have had the flip 3 since its release and I love the Form factor! After 7 months the same happend with a bubble on the Left corner that slowly turnen in to it. I kept it like this for 3 months case lazy. I sent it in to Samsung and they replaced the screen protector, it took 2 Weeks but it was super easy. The first generation was a prototype the 3 and 4 are just an alternative form factor. I don't really know why but after 2 years it still fills me with giggly joy when I open an close the flip 3! The front display is lovely.

/sees video thumbnail "Oh hey that's my phone. This should be fun" /proceeds to be bullied for 12 minutes and 47 seconds

Samsung should've consulted a physicist about the whole "bending the laws of physics" idea, there appears to be a fundamental misunderstaning.

I love my Flip 3. I knew it would have issues being such new tech but I went into it expecting that. After about a year and a half it is finally starting to show damage on the hinge. Other than that my one complaint is the size of the outer screen which leaks of the flip 5 seem to be fixing

after a full year of using the z flip 3(not the first one). i can confidentally say when it is folded up it is more rock solid than the 3310

Just use it as a gameboy/DS emulator now since it has sections now

If it bends and leaving bend marks then it is not breaking the laws of physics, its actually following the laws to the T.

I got me mum a Z Flip and she loves it! Noticed a few tiny scratches on the screen screen protector. No noticeable crack. 16 months, I'll come back in the future, no telling when with an update.

you're not just breaking the laws of physics, you're breaking your screen

“Yeah mate, we’re breaking the laws of physics but if physics was actually just the phone.”

it's like what they say, "the more moving parts, the more that can go wrong"

I remember my first phone. An LG Chocolate Touch. It was back when touch screens on dumb phones were starting and I loved it. I still count it as one of the absolute best phones I've had, along with my iPhone 4S and Google Pixel 2.

sounds like my old chromebook. the thing had a (common! half the reviews complained abt this) manufacturing defect with the back cover where it would disconnect itself from the screen in one of the bottom corners if you opened it too much. you would have to quite literally hold the corner together every time you opened the thing. the first time it happened (a couple months after i got it) we replaced the back and then not even a month later it happened again in the other bottom corner. wed already replaced a part so we couldnt use the warranty and if we replaced the back every time this happened it would get expensive fast. my dad wasnt about to get me a brand new chromebook after only four months tho so i just dealt with it. and yknow, it was fine. until the glass in that corner started breaking. like i said, i had to hold it together when i opened or closed it. which meant i was putting my bare skin on broken glass and pushing. problem! so i covered it in tape, which actually held it together so i didnt even have to do it myself! and then the glass broke more. and it broke more. and the back disconnected from the screen even more. and eventually, the entire corner was covered in tape and duct tape and i _still_ had to hold it together. it got to the point where it started just falling apart. i hadnt even had it for a year. this thing last what, 6 months? before becoming a legitimate hazard. it was sprinkling glass whenever any tape came off. this was all during virtual learning. awful awful experience for my next chromebook, we got one without a hinge, since the hinge was what was causing it. i think it bent slightly every time i opened it? and ended up pushing the lid apart, or something. pro tip: tablet chromebooks suck ass. idk what the screwed up broken chromebook was called but if you see a light gray chromebook thats all smooth and nice looking and the glass goes down to the hinge DO NOT trust it. it may look nice but it will ruin your opinion of chromebooks forever.

12 minutes and 46 seconds of an Australian man having a mental breakdown due to a phone which has a crease on it

Irony: Frank slithers around a game called Mouse Trap.

Here's a fun fact: IIRC after some fails with the Galaxy Fold, Samsung now puts a warning in the box saying not to pull off the "screen protector". I think the same should apply to the Z Flip.

I noticed the box for the T-Mobile G1, and I do wanna learn more about the story behind it in Australia. I have one here in the United States, and somehow the battery is in good condition for being so old, and it even holds a charge all on it's own, despite the actual device itself being in a less than ideal condition. Still surprisingly works though, which is an added bonus on top of my intended use case for it, which is being a display piece.

People complaining about the fact he's revewing a phone, guys, he could've reviewed a toilet, we would've watched the entire video anyways, this is the magic of *ol' mate dank pods*

samsung: experiments with foldable phones apple several years later: "we made the world's first foldable phone"

The new ones dont have any problems. Been using my Z flip 3 for like 9 months now

I have recently got the zflip 3 and I'm still terrified of this happening. 2 generations later and I'm still worried, and honestly I don't think that's gonna go away. It's a fun phone but it has it's drawbacks

Every time he opens the damn phone I just expect him to break the thing in half, be a little gentle mate.

DankPods: "And that's when the sadness started..." Me: Yep, there it is...

I've had the flip 3 for a couple of years, and one year in, it looked exactly like that, so I took the screen protector off. It didn't ruin anything, but fast forward to today, and the actual screen looks like that, too.

My coworkers were legit obsessed with this for a while. Went about as well as I expected

1Grit: "My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined"

I can imagine the review meeting Engineer: it's not ready, we need to increase the durability of the screen panel Management: it's going out the door in a week, get it done yesterday! Marketing: it bendz the lawz of phyzicz!!!

"My phone has Gorrilla Glass 5, what about yours?" "Uh... what glass?"

He did a phone review. A PHONE REVIEW. And I'll still watch it damn it

From the thumbnail, i thought it's a broken 3ds

my brother has one of these. there is the crease. there is the crack in the screen at the fold, yet he still thinks it's a good phone. "oh the screen protector just needs to be replaced." AND I THOUGHT THAT MEANT HE HAD TO REPLACE IT- BUT NO??? THIS SHOWED ME IT CAN'T BE REPLACED WITHOUT GIVING IT UP, AND IT MAKES SENSE WHY HE HADN'T REPLACED IT YET 😭

And now he switched to it

Remember that "early adopter" is just a fancy way of saying Guinea pig

Dankpods is slowly going from an ipod channel to a full on tech channel and im loving it

I got a zflip 4 256gb 3 months ago (refurbished) for 300. I work in a welding shop, i can say they 100% made massive changes since these, and the flip5 is even better with new hinge to fully close

0:43 Holy shit I also have had the same Nokia! It was a crimson red one and I remember playing games on that bad boy all the time when I was a wee lad, now it's sitting in a drawer in pieces collecting dust

When I visited the Samsung Repair Center in South Korea, the amount of packages labeled "ZFlip" stacked an entire wall.

It’s like the Virtual Boy: if the whole selling point of your product is one gimmick, and that gimmick sucks, then it doesn’t matter how good the rest is. Edit: I should have been more specific. What I meant to say was, the Virtual Boy had some decent games, but the whole point of the system was the VR graphics, and those aren’t very good, so what’s the point? Same deal with the Z Flip. It’s a decent phone, but the whole point is the foldable screen, and the screen breaks, so why does it have to have this gimmick that doesn’t work?

Yeah this is an old zflip I think the first one that came out. I've had my flip 3 since it came out last year with no issues and now own a z fold 4 and no issues at all.

This doesn't do justice to the fold though. I've been using a Fold 4 and 3 before for a couple years now and I've not had a single issue with the folding or screens. Admittedly, the Fold 3 protector started letting air in, in the middle... but that was a couple days before I got my Fold 4, and on the Fold 3 you could actually change the protectors :)

I'm so totally down for more dankpods phone reviews

A wise man once said: “It’s almost like the biggest companies make the worst junk!”

I think two major factors for why the screen dents in is because it fold a whole 180 degrees, that is a folding angle guaranteed to make a crease, and the other is being that the screen isn't at the center point of rotation, and due to reasons with mass geometry, the lesser glued down portion of the glass material at the center makes way by going into the hinge. For proper longevity for that screen it would be best if it was used on a product that folds at a smaller angle at maybe 45 or 90 degrees, making it bend rather than fold. It will lose storage capability by not folding anymore sure, but that is more likely to increase the screens life time.

i've had a z flip 3 since november 2021, as soon as smart-flipphones became a thing i knew i wanted one so i saved up til that gen came out. 2 years later, still going strong, only issue i ever had was that the screen protector cracked - after going through two in the first year of owning it i just took it off and haven't cared since. i don't think i can ever go back to a normal phone, having the screen on top is super useful for having the phone off to the side, it takes up like no space in my pocket (it usually lives with my keys), and it's soooo satisfying to flip it shut at the end of a phone call! 2 years on and still no crack on the screen itself.

"Bend the laws of physics" And the laws of physics bend back

"The Glass Man" is my spirit animal

Love those walkman dongles especially when them pins bend in absurd angles 😂

I am so into the folding phone thing. Wanna see where it goes. My friend has a Z fold as her daily driver. It's not high end, but I love it. I also want a surface duo for audio books. Waiting for the used price to come down a bit more. I don't think I'll have it as a primary phone yet. Even the duo I want more as an extra device.

He's evolving oh god he's reviewing phones now, he's so powerful soon he's going to be reviewing the speaker systems on cars

Good thing I never purchased this cause I was tempted

I realized with almost every product we evolved backwards for the sake that you can replace the phone more often so they can get more money. This applies to appliances as well lol

I got myself a 2019 razor for Christmas last year because they were really cheap and I liked the flip novelty. So far I am actually enjoying it. No sd card slot sucks but it has plenty of storage, screen is good, and it helps me stay off phone since don't want to flip it open every five seconds.

I remember being so hyped when I got my first phone, it could record 5 second videos that were like 20x40 pixels and I paid prepaid text money for hilariously awful ringtones It was badass

When I was taking mech eng classes, they taught us about "fatigue limit" which is basically the amount of times you can apply a load (in this case, folding). Something like this should've been thoroughly tested and the engineers absolutely knew that it wasn't going to be ready for shipment. You would need a fatigue limit in the tens of thousands at least for this to be a viable mainstream product

If you break the laws of physics, The laws of physics *WILL* breaks you

Would love to see you check out the newest folding phones. The Z Fold or Flip 5s, or even the newest OnePlus Open are huge leaps forwards from these first-gen folding phones.

“This is my bedroom, what do you even want”Inspirational quotes with frank

Samsung did the unthinkable: they built in Scarlett Fire into it.

i never knew watching a funny australian man roast samsung's flip would be so funny

That's why I think that Fold is a much better idea. You don't *have* to open it each time to use it so the screen isn't getting folded nearly as much.

"I trusted..." See, that was your first mistake.💁🏾‍♂️

Its "technically" glass with plastic on top of it, so it doesn't really matter

Sad that this last holiday season, this was practically the ONLY phone on special from carriers. Also as someone who runs his phone into the ground or until a forced firmware is pushed that kills it, i knew i would get a fold eventually. But didnt expect it this to be near immediate!

I haven't really been excited about phones in years. Last gimmick I actually kinda cared about was the one I got that had a retractable front facing camera. (Even then I wasn't "excited" for it) No notch, no teardrop cutout, nothing impeding the front screen. Except that I actually liked it better when phones had a forehead that could contain the camera and a bigger speaker. I actually think cheaper phones would be better off without a "selfie cam" if they're not going to have face ID or whatever the generic version is. Give me a slightly bigger screen with no hole punch or notch any day.

You can tell everyone in JBHi-Fi walks past these folding phones and they press their fingernail in the screen to see if it dents - yes, yes it does

They should say that this phone is suitable for people with no nails and people who don’t use their phones

I had the z flip 3, same crap. I had the cracks starting 2 weeks out of the box. The second one, 3 months and there was a thin line and small cracks at the edge. I took mine back under the Not fit for use. An item has to be able to stand up to the use it was designed for. Especially if the item doesn't last the contract time. I didn't have to pay it out.

I have a classmate from last year who had one of these phones, it was the first time I saw it and I thought “that will break easily”. the next year there’s a line in the middle of the screen

Imagine being the engineer who has to tell customers that that crease isn't covered by warranty.

"instead of one big screen you have two screens uselessly bonded together" Microsoft surface duo: uhm...

I only watch your videos for your commentary, absolutely legendary

when i first saw that phone i was like "hell yeah, cant wait to get one. but ill wait after a few verisons of it so they can get the bugs out." so glad i have that mindset

Samsung: Bends the laws of physics Physics: *no u* Samsung: dammit

2 parts of this video: 1) analysis 2) emotional breakdown