跟读练习: Galaxy Z Fold 8 DURABILITY TEST - is the new 'Titanium Screen' real? - 通过视频学习英语口语

Samsung's new passport-style foldable is priced at  a whopping $1,900, which coincidentally is about the same price as getting a real passport  and buying a round-trip ticket to anywhere you want to go in the world. You could either  touch dirt on another continent or, you know, get the latest and greatest social media scrolling  machine ever invented. Decisions, decisions.

Immediately, I can see why everyone loves this  thing. 5.5 inches is really the perfect size.

Inside the box, we get a SIM card removal tool  and one single USB-C charging cable. It's finally time to see how Samsung's lightest fold ever  weathers my JerryRigEverything durability test.

Right off the bat, though, we are not off  to a great start since even with its new titanium screen, we get the same laundry list  of warnings as the previous eight generations of folding phones. Like, don't press on  the inner screen with your fingernails.

Don't fold the phone with anything inside.  The phone is not dust resistant. Don't let it get immersed in salt water. And don't remove  the inner protective screen. And lastly, keep it away from implanted medical devices. RIP to  whoever's grandma learned that one the hard way.

The cool thing about having a wider screen is  that now there's even more room to run multiple apps at the same time. Up to three, actually.  A manager for your apps. Manage twap. Sorry.

When the exterior screen is flat on its  back, it's about as stable as Bitcoin.

And its 10x6 aspect ratio would probably make  it Christopher Nolan's favorite smartphone if he ever used one. Nolan says he would be too  addicted to a smartphone if he ever used one, and he's definitely not wrong.  Someone needs to take one for the team and see if getting rid of your  smartphone really does bring happiness.

Until then though, the exterior screen is made  with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 and scratches at a level six with deeper grooves at a level seven.  Incredibly, the average American checks their phone 200 times a day. And if for even half of  those glances you pop open into the center screen, on paper, it theoretically would last about  a decade since it's already been tested to 500,000 folds in a laboratory—as long as, of  course, the inner screen doesn't come in contact with anything harder than your fingernail. Since  Samsung's flexible folding screens still scratch at a level two, and spoiler alert, Apple will  probably have the same issue with their folding screen when it drops, you can hit that subscribe  button to see how right I am here in a few months.

Supposedly, there is a titanium substrate  underneath these pixels, but that doesn't change the fact that the permanent plastic  layer on top is still plastic. As you can see, the Fold 8 receives damage through coins,  keys, and even grappling hooks. Luckily, Samsung does offer one free inner screen  protector replacement within the first 12 months, and subsequent plastic layer  replacements only cost 19 bucks, so the marks on the inner screen aren't as bad  as they look from a financial perspective. But since the phone does cost more than my first  car, protection is still always a good thing.

My channel sponsor dbrand says their foolproof  Prism screen protector is foolproof, and there's two in the box for good measure. As you can  see, my Fold 8 has some dust on the glass. So, I'll use the wet wipe to clean the screen. And the  applicator positions the layer of glass protection right over the screen. And with one pull, one  stroke, the glass is installed perfectly. My $2,000 phone just got protection in 2 seconds. And  it's real glass. Link is down in the description.

Now, even though Samsung used the buzzword  titanium for the inner flexible screen for no reason, here on the outside frame, it's  most definitely still Armor Aluminum. The fingerprint-scanning power  button is not removable, but the metal volume rocker most definitely  still is. Pretty typical for Samsung to have the buttons be removable. I'll  just pop that back into place.

Making our way to the top edge, we can see two  noise-canceling microphones and the loudspeaker, as well as our SIM card tray, which  does not have expandable memory, but does have a gray rubber ring to assist  with the IP48 water resistance rating, which is good to know. We'll test that  dust protection here in a second. Down at the bottom, we have our second stereo  loudspeaker and 45-watt USB-C 3.2 port.

The 10-megapixel front-facing inner screen  selfie camera is protected by that same plastic layer as the rest of the inner screen.  So careful with that. It is a hole-punch camera and not a hidden camera like it was  on the Fold 3, 4, 5, and 6. The exterior selfie camera is also 10 megapixels and  not hidden, but it is protected with glass.

Making our way to the back, we see our  50-megapixel ultrawide camera up top and 50-megapixel main camera right below  that sitting on a plastic plateau, which, correct me if I'm wrong, is a first for Samsung.  Usually, this plateau is made from metal. The back panel is still made from glass. Coming back up  to the camera lenses, seeing plastic on a folding phone is kind of wild. The little ring surrounding  the camera lenses is still made from metal and is actually pretty easy to leverage off. It for  sure won't be falling off on its own, but it is good to know that if you ever crack your camera  lens, it's very easy to replace the whole thing.

The only thing I would worry about with lens  replacements though is if the seal was still tight, since any dust getting down inside of  that camera unit would kill the optical image stabilization and possibly leave artifacts  in the camera images. You know how it is.

Historically, the outdoors has been a pretty dirty  place, and one might say that there is actually a lot of dirt everywhere outside. This year,  Samsung says their new Fold 8 hinge is wider, thinner, and flatter. And when combined  with that titanium substructure, which we'll hopefully see busted open in a second, it makes  the screen crease less visible. Dustwise, though, it seems to keep out the nitty-gritty gunk just  as well as last year's, so I'm not too worried about it. I can even see some of the metallic  dust collecting on the magnets in the corners.

One big improvement that I haven't  seen anyone talking about though is the fingerprint scanner. This time around,  you're not just capacitively taking pictures of your finger. You roll your finger around  on the button to get it scanned. And then, even with heavy, heavy abuse on the button  itself, it's literally the fastest response time of any fingerprint scanner I've ever seen.  Genuinely impressive. So, thumbs up for that.

The 7.6-inch titanium flex display has 3,000  nits of peak brightness and a 120Hz refresh rate. It starts permanently burning after about  7 seconds from my lighter. The titanium doesn't appear to help all that much with heat either,  so hopefully it's much cooler on the inside.

The exterior 5.5-inch 120Hz 428 pixel  per inch display on the outside lasted a tad longer at about 10 seconds, probably  since the glass helps distribute the heat, but then went permanently black  and green without recovering.

Finally, the bend test. When closed, this  passport-style foldable has hardly any flex, not when bent from the front nor the back, which  means this wallet sized phone could easily be a back pocket device and still survive being sat  on—as long as the phone is closed anyway. When the phone is open, well, it's just a burden I have to  bear, you know, pushing these premium devices to their absolute limits. We've never had a folding  Samsung phone fail, except for the trifold, but that was an anomaly. And I think seeing  devices that might at first appear fragile come through the other side of my test still in one  piece instills a lot of confidence in potential purchasers. And I hope for this fold's sake  that it, you know, makes it. The time has come.

Dagnabbit. While there is a substantial amount  of rearward flex, the widened Fold 8 smartphone survives my durability test. No cracks at the  antenna lines like we saw on the Pixel Fold, and no popping out of the screen like we saw  in Motorola's folding phone. The glass back panel even pops off the back of the phone body  before any damage happens to that soft center screen. Kind of mind-blowing. I don't know  what Thanos-level mithril guru Samsung used to make their folding phones with, but the new wider  Fold 8 is yet another rather impressive survivor.

Of course, if you want your new device to be  blemish-free and keep the resale value high, might I recommend dbrand's Grip case.  With its magnetic hinge protector, every angle of the fold stays completely  protected whether it's open or closed. And with 40 different skins to choose from, like  this real leather, your premium phone can feel as premium as a leather wallet. Link is  down in the description. And of course, I'll have my teardown skin available  soon, so stick around for that video.

Thanks a ton for watching. I'll see you around.