Samsung's Z Fold 3 is awesome!

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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 is a versatile machine that can be a phone, a tablet and a computer you can fold up and carry in your pocket. This is my review of it after 2 months of use.

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0:00 Intro
1:01 Phone
2:35 Tablet
6:11 Computer

[ayushjain]

Your review is much much more valuable than so many famous tech youtubers outthere. Your integration of every aspect of fold in your daily life really gives much more value to this review.

[eskanderx]

Dex is so underated!

It's mostly what 80% of the people actually need from desktop/laptop.

[HenningGu]

Oh and about Notion: you can force the resizing of all apps in the settings.

And then Notion will even take on a tablet UI.

[risalat_hasan]

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Smartphone mode
2:35 Tablet mode
6:12 DEX mode
11:09 Conclusion

[shreyanshtripathi]

Samsung Dex is really an underrated feature and deserves some attention from the tech guys. Its really great that you brought it up!!

[vickie_g]

I hope the new android 12L gains traction with developers. Google's new app frameworks for variable displays will fix most of the app problems you mentioned...

[Anonnonon]

10:31 maybe utilizing Samsung Notes and syncing with One Note would ease the DeX script writing situation, I honestly though don't know how Samsung Notes performs on DeX, it's a Samsung app so assume it would work fine.

[Raichu]

You and Michael (aka Mr.Mobile) are the only people I trusted when its come to foldable smartphone! Great Review!

[kromid]

Man, I haven't watched your videos in while, but your videos are getting even better, and so cinematic! Keep on doing good work!

[bimalpandey]

11:01 If you guys do decide to throw away your laptop, please do throw it towards me.

[RanmaruRei]

I'm working in an IT company as a manual tester. We're developing mobile software. I'm literally begging for 3 years for fixing mouse support in our apps, but nothing changed.
I hope the situation will be changed with Windows 11, but I doubt it.

[marufbepary]

There is potential, especially with Android 12L around the corner. Dex is basically a full Chromebook.

[nikc]

Had my z fold 3 since release day. Honestly can't see myself going back to a 'normal' phone again. Yeah it's a little bulky and battery life could be better but it's just such a well polished experience for only the 3rd iteration of a brand new form factor.

[Another_opinion_]

Someone should tell this guy that YouTube is no place for an informed and truly useful review that doesn't feel like an ad.

[HenningGu]

Dex is one of the Samsung things that range from "gimmick" to "nice to have but only for reviews" until it really does come in handy and then you could just never miss it.

I hope Samsung won't drop it and continues the support if only to encourage other companies to also pursue desktop modes.

[nickthaskater]

Thank you for covering the DeX aspect. Love it.

Protip: launch DeX, go into DeX settings, then enable the DeX-specific developer mode to allow window resizing and app compatibility for all apps (you can also go into Labs but I hate having the Labs icon in the status bar).

This should be default behavior. Samsung makes DeX way more of a barrier than it needs to.

Re: browsers, Chrome has a flag to load desktop pages on large displays, and Edge has a toggle to always load desktop pages. Samsung Internet does a decent job of loading desktop pages but has a lot of compatibility quirks, as you noted.

[RanmaruRei]

A lifehack to improve your DeX experince:
1. Activate developer setting;
2. Enable setting "Force activities to be resizable"
3. Enable setting "Enable freeform windows"
This makes split-screen and freeform windows available for any app. It may cause bugs, but many developers are overcautious, their apps work just fine.

[dalastwoke]

My wife and I use Microsoft office word which opens a desktop mode when using it on dex...
Not sure if it requires a subscription being that I pay for onedrive but it worth trying

[leskobrandon]

I waited for the 3rd gen fold from my note 10+. I love this phone. I have the fold edition pen and it works great. I have been daily driving it from release. I like the outside screen for day to day phone use, and I love the ability to watch a full big screen at the end of the day. I can multitask 3 apps at the same time when I need to at work. The spigion case is much better than the Samsung pen case. I hope they put the pen inside the phone like the note in the next generation and make dex available without an external screen. I won't get a normal candy bar phone again.

[gabrielpapasideropavan]

I think that DEX never got a fair shot with everyone! It has so much potential! Imagine going to work with just your phone!