Nothing CEO Reviews Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7
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9:45
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Sep 11, 2025
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Join us as we sit down with Nothing CEO Carl Pei, as he gives an honest review of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7. 0:00 - Intro 0:51 - Makin' a lil somethin' 1:03 - Review 3:33 - Gaming on Fold 4:03 - Giveaway 4:14 - Review 7:59 - CMF Fold 8:52 - Final Thoughts We’re also giving away the (used) Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 from this video to one lucky viewer who is subscribed and who comments below... Entry Requirements: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel (@NothingTechnology) and post a comment below. - Make your subscription public so we can see you (details below). - Ensure your email is visible on your YouTube account so we can contact you if you win (details below). Winner Selection: The giveaway will close and a winner will be chosen randomly on Thursday 25th September 2025. We’ll contact the winner via email, so make sure it’s linked to your account. How to Make Your Subscription Public: - Go to Settings - Privacy on YouTube. - Turn off “Keep all my subscriptions private.” How to Ensure Your Email is Visible: - Go to Your Channel - Customise Channel. - Under the About section, click on “Details” and add your email if it’s not already listed. Claiming the Prize: Winners must respond within 48 hours to claim their Prize. Failure to respond within this timeframe will result in forfeiture of the Prize, and a new winner will be selected. Shipping Restrictions: Please note that we may not be able to ship to certain regions due to local restrictions or blocks on deliveries over a specific value. Nothing cannot bypass these restrictions. By entering the giveaway, you represent and warrant that you are not subject to any blacklists or sanctions of relevant countries, including, without limitation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and that you are in full compliance with applicable export control laws and regulations. Should shipping of the Prize to a winner’s address be excessively difficult or expensive, Nothing may, at its reasonable discretion, select an alternative winner. The winner shall be solely responsible for any taxes associated with collection of the Prize, including, without limitation, personal income taxes. Eligibility: - Participants must be at least eighteen (18) years of age at the time of participation and residing in an eligible region throughout the World. - Due to legal restrictions, Nothing is unable to accept entries from Sudan, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Cuba, the Crimea region, or any other countries/regions which may be subject to export controls or sanctions at the time of the giveaway. - Nothing staff and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate or win. Restrictions: Prizes cannot be exchanged for other products or any monetary equivalent, and winners are not able to claim product warranty or customer support on won Prizes. Nothing’s Rights: Nothing reserves the right to modify the giveaway, its terms and conditions, and entry requirements at any time. Personal Data: Winners will need to provide personal information for shipping purposes. For details on how we handle your data, please refer to our Privacy Policy: https://nothing.tech/pages/privacy-policy You can withdraw consent at any time. If you have questions, contact us at privacy@nothing.tech. Good luck! 🍀 ➤ Our website: https://nothing.tech/ ➤ Join our community: https://nothing.community/ ➤ Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/nothing/ https://twitter.com/nothing https://www.tiktok.com/@nothing https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nothingtech
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I really, really don't recommend other
people enter this industry.
I've just picked up a Galaxy Z47 and I'm
going to give it to Carl to review. Now,
he's had plenty to say about foldables
online, but has he actually tried living
with one? By the end of the video, we're
going to see if Carl can learn to love
foldables. Let's get into it. Hey, Carl,
I got you something.
Do we pay for this?
Yeah.
Aren't these like 2,000 bucks? Uh,
now Carl, you haven't exactly said nice
things about foldables online, so uh,
what's the beef?
I'm gradually warming up to it. I guess
I just need some more convincing.
Okay. Well, for this review, we're going
to need you to live the foldable
lifestyle. Embrace the hinge.
Mhm.
I can tell this is going to be uh, an
interesting one. Should we catch up in a
few days then?
All right. Uh, do you think people are
going to think we're going to make a
foldable if we make this video?
I mean, judging by your enthusiasm, I
don't think so.
No, but really would nothing actually
ever make a foldable. I feel like Oh, I
feel like Carl's going to tell me the
R&D for foldables is really high, so I
made this to challenge him on that.
Several days later.
Carl, it's been a couple of days that
you spent with the ZFold 7. How's it
been? It's been good. It's been ages
since we did our last review, right? The
last one was S23
Ultra. That product felt very iterative,
but this felt like a new experience. So,
how do you want to kick off the review?
What do you want to talk about first?
Uh, maybe let's start with the design.
It's a lot thinner than before. Almost
opens up perfectly, roughly the same
thickness as the phone 3. So, even if
you're not always going to use the phone
unfolded, like it doesn't feel a lot
bigger in your pocket. When I saw this
for the first time, I was like, "Wow,
there's no crease anymore." In the
packaging, it was like like this, right?
It shipped open. But then after using it
for a couple of days, the crease
appeared. So, I was more bullish about
this form factor. But after seeing the
crease appear, and this is only using it
for a couple of days, like, who knows
what'll happen if we use it for a month,
2 months, it's not where I want it to be
yet.
That was a South Korean YouTuber who
tested 200,000 opens and closes. Did you
catch that? Was it live?
Yeah, live streamed over like I think it
was like 5 days.
So, can we get two to do the same thing?
Might be an interesting video. It's
live.
Oh god.
5 days.
I wish I had bought it.
There's one thing though. It's probably
the camera bump, right? when you have it
on the table, it it's like this. But
then again, like I don't know how else
you would have done this cuz camera
sensors still need that physical space.
I think they've all things considered
done a great job. On to cameras then.
Did you get a chance to shoot any
pictures with these in particular maybe
against phone 3? I mean both are great
cameras. I was surprised by how good the
Samsung cameras were because it's like a
very thin phone. When we were shooting
indoors, I noticed the saturation being
lower on the Samsung than the Phone 3,
but outdoors, the saturation is a little
bit higher. The details are all there on
both devices. So, it's more of a tuning
question. It's a good camera. I like the
fact that they're they now have a normal
selfie camera. In the past, they had the
undercreen camera, which was more like a
gimmick. Like, it looked cool, but it
didn't didn't really work.
I always think it's really interesting
when companies try something and then
revert back.
Like, we're all learning. We're all
human. It's it's fine. What use cases
did you find were interesting or kind of
offered a new experience to you?
Spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations,
content also is better. Like, yeah, you
can argue that the aspect ratio is not
great, but still like it's a bigger
screen. It's more comfortable to watch
content. Multitasking, you know, there
there's actually one pain point where
you want to write an email, but you want
to reference something. It's like really
hard to switch between screens to do it.
And just having one screen on one side
and the other screen on the other side
just makes it that makes it a lot
easier. I think those are the main ones.
Do you have a game here? We got some
games. Should we have a look?
Yep. Got one of these as well. You're a
Call of Duty man. Do you get to see more
things or does it crop you?
I think you're getting less and you're
getting more sky and ground.
That's harder for a competitive gamer,
right, to accept.
Can we get a closeup on the
concentration on his face?
Oh I got knifed. Okay, I don't
want to play anymore.
Okay, I actually think it's a good
product, but it's not for me. Like I
like it as well, but would I spend 2,000
USD on this? There's no way. Would you
got it for free? Would you use it?
Yeah, we were kind of joking about it
earlier. Obviously, we're going to
return this at the end of the review. We
can return it or we give it away on our
channel. Wouldn't it be awkward though
if we got like way more entries than
when we do nothing giveaways? We just
got to work harder on our products.
Okay.
You talked about this in your S23
review. There's so much pre-installed
stuff on these devices. Why does Samsung
do this? Firstly, is my question. So, if
you're an app and you want to acquire
users, paying a smartphone manufacturer
to preload is one of the most common
ways. It's way harder to get somebody to
use an app if they have to go to the
Play Store and download the app. Like,
just convincing somebody to do something
is very hard. So, if I'm Samsung, I can
argue that you got to pay me a lot for
the F 7 because one, I'm attracting
business users. They have more money to
spend. And two, I this is going to sell
well in uh developed countries like US
or uh Japan, Korea. So, I could probably
charge, I don't know, 10 bucks per
device.
Per app, per device.
That's kind of crazy. Even if it was
just a million units.
Yeah. 10 million bucks.
I remember a tweet from you that
basically said, "Every time a user buys
a foldable, a UX designer cries." What
did you mean by that? So, if you're a UX
designer creating products for the phone
or for a computer screen, you kind of
know the best practices, but we as a
tech industry were still exploring the
use cases for a product like this.
There's no established practice. In the
beginning when foldables just came out,
the apps were just a stretched version
of a mobile app or maybe it was just in
the middle of the screen with some black
bars on the sides. That would make a UX
designer cry even more. But how much
more work do you think it is for a
software design team to come up with an
interface that works across two
displays? Cuz we're focusing on the big
internal screen, but there's also the
closed version as well, which is
slightly more traditional. It's going to
be more than double the work, right?
because you're designing for two
screens, so that's kind of double, but
then you have to design how it works in
between when you're flowing from one to
the other. We got much else to say about
the software experience. I think all in
all, um the reviews for One UI8 have
been great. A lot of customization,
smooth animations, like it used to be a
big problem with Samsung phones that
even though they had good specs, it
would be kind of laggy to use. It's
fixed. It's very good. Now, I know in
the comments section of this video,
we're going to see a lot of people
asking us whether we're going to be
making a foldable uh what would your
response be to those people. So, making
a foldable phone today versus like 5
years ago, it's a lot easier, but that
only solves the supply side. The most
important part is always the consumer,
the demand side. When you observe how a
person uses a smartphone, what pain
points they have and how you can make it
better. I don't think the first foldable
came because somebody just really wanted
to have a foldable. It's more of a
supply chain driven innovation, meaning
that the supply chain had this new
technology available and they were
shopping it around to their partners.
Some of the smartphone manufacturers
jumped at the opportunity to be able to
do something different. Currently, the
market is really bad. Like 17 million
units, that's nothing compared to the
overall size of the smartphone industry.
1.2 billion. So, if we were to ship a
foldable, it would sell almost zero
units and all the money would be like a
just lost.
I mean, we could do it, right?
We could. This year we're about to do a
billion dollars in revenue, but we're
still lossmaking this year even at a
billion. That doesn't sound good. Uh
it's a very challenging industry. I
really really don't recommend other
people enter this industry. We're 50 to
80 times smaller than everybody else.
How could we possibly buy components at
the same price? So our margins are very
bad compared to the rest of the
industry.
Right? That's what's making it really
hard to turn a profit. So we got to keep
growing. But on the other hand, if we
break this down a little bit more, every
product we sell has to be a success. So
now, if you're asking me to make a
product that's even less popular, even
if the cost of developing these two
products are similar, then we have to be
really really thoughtful about whether
we should uh, you know, go ahead with
that or not.
R&D for a kind of familiar form factor
as the phone 3 versus a foldable, what
kind of order of magnitude of difference
would that be from an R&D perspective?
Imagine this to be a regular smartphone.
I would say the engineering cost, the
fixed cost is probably double. That
explains the high price. No, it
shouldn't explain the high price cuz I
think it should be consumer driven.
I present you this.
Do you want to have a guess at the R&D
cost of that? Looks like So, it's
probably zero. Carl, it was basically
free to make, but you can appreciate the
engineering. No, it's good that you're
not on the engineering team. It folds
all the way around. Yeah, you hurt
yourself. like your your fingers get
stuck here. But I like the effort. You
get to charge two phones every night,
which is fun.
But imagine looking at a spreadsheet
with a huge gap in the middle.
There are plenty of problems here. But
let's try and look at the benefits.
What's the benefit?
I mean, you name a single benefit.
You go all the way.
So what what would you do with this?
Maybe you want to play your kid a video
whilst you're on the phone.
I don't know. You just got to use your
imagination a little bit.
Like bad parenting. I play a game and
you watch a video. If we're at a
restaurant, we could both watch a film
at the same time.
Okay. God, tough crowd. So, to recap
then, this phone is 2,000 USD. What do
you make of what you get for that money?
I think this is one of the nicest
foldables on the market. So, if you're
somebody who needs a foldable, get it if
you're in that demographic. It's not a
phone for most people. You can get the
topsp spec iPhone plus Apple Care for
cheaper than this. For all of the new
kind of features and experiences this
offers, why would this be your choice?
I think you're asking the wrong person,
right? Cuz this is my company.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. To be
serious, of course, phone 3. I mean,
it's not just for me. For people
watching, the most likely better option
is also going to be the phone 3 because
we're all not in that demographic that
buys a foldable for business
productivity. But that's not to say it's
a bad product. It's a great product for
those kind of people. I mean, if we ever
do a video where you prefer a
competitor's product, that's going to be
uh interesting, isn't it? Maybe it's
going to be the Apple Fold. What do you
think they'll call it? I fold.