So, I have ordered my Galaxy Watch 4 on 24 August and until now still processing. Made calls everyday to push to dispatch and they told me that the item has already been packed & in stock and awaiting DHL pickup. I asked to escalate my case all the way to the Warehouse & e-Shop team.

Each time called they promised a different delivery/ship-out date, with the latest one the representative directly called from their warehouse in Shah Alam assuring me that the items will be shipped latest by Friday or Saturday as DHL does pickup.

However, I did a quick chat this morning to find out the status and found it that all this while they have NEVER ACTUALLY PACKED OR EVEN PREPARE FOR DHL PICKUP and that was the moment I made a report to MCMC/KPDNKK as Samsung Customer Service had lied to me all this while with call logs and chat transcriptions I have kept proving them they have lied to me.

They did told me someone from warehouse will urgently call me next week regarding this matter but at this point I wouldn't trust them at all. If still no progress I may have to file for Tribunal and call the bank to dispute/chargeback the payment as its a fraud for taking our money but falling to deliver on time or provide any updates on the item.

This is the last time I would order from Samsung Official Store. Might as well order from Lazada or pickup from store as it is faster.

Samsung Galaxy Flip3 - Short Review



Design

• Absolutely gorgeous, I love it! Something refreshing, solid build, very light, slim and small make it very easier to carry.
  

What I like

• Screen - Gorgeous screen, 120hz really make differences here, scroll animation is so smooth.
  
• Performance - Thanks Samsung finally give Malaysia market Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 instead of Exynos.
  
• Signal - Perfect! No more signal issue of Call, Data, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
  
• Loud Speaker - Loudspeaker is clear and nice, no high-pitched issue.
  
• Sound - No issue wireless from Bluetooth for my Sony WH-1000XM4 & Apple AirPods Pro or wired via USB-C converter to 3.5mm, it just nice fire-up my Sony MDR-Z1R.
  
• Gaming - No doubt definitely no issue here. All games play just fine.
  

Neutral for me

• Camera - It is not the best, but it do what it can and look good. The cool part is you can use both Rear camera for taken Selfie.
  

What I dislike

• Screen Center Line - It is not that obvious but you still can see it and feel it. It will be great if it is totally gone.
  
• Battery Life - 1st time I bother about the battery life. It is not well optimize, I believe future firmware can make it better.
  
• AOD - The main screen and cover screen AOD control should be separate. Currently Cover AOD control is very little and the general one did not manage it most.
  

Sample photos shoot using Flip3

Main Camera


Ultrawide Camera


DOF


Indoor


Night Shoot

Last Friday during I buy leather case for my Flip3, I had play the Fold3, beside slightly heavy, it is actually look very nice in actual, far better than 1st gen.

Maybe next year I will consider Fold4. Haha!

You are right la, this time the Fold 3 really feels good in the hands, especially the aesthetics , which has improved so much. I might even consider getting the Fold 3 once there are stocks readily available.

Any updates?

This week i haven't call yet

Maybe they filtered your email put into junk mailbox. 

Few years back, I wrote to CEO office also. I told them what for you give us gifts? We dont like, straight cut the price... keep your gift. See Iphone, they still can sell like hot cake without gifts.

But they said thank you only and will consider my feedback...

All this gifts / evoucher really create hassle. sell us RM5699 straight without gift better.

The only gift I like is 2 yrs warranty. Very worry about samsung thing, sometimes break on 13th month ....  many cases I saw ... Screen turn green / blackout .... cannot power on... blah blah blah

Their watch is selling fast. The only remaining item is the bundle pack and galaxy buds

Just received news from SES Lowyat CS got stock for Flip3
- 128GB Green
- 256GB Black.
Anybody want to buy can go pay and bring the phone home.

Come.. now you can get your Flip3 early. Once your preorder one arrive can straight away sell it

then I will only get mine in Nov, cause I just place an order Watch 4 last Friday

   

   

Hi anyone purchased using installment plan? Is it normal that they charge twice? I just saw my credit card statement and saw they charged me on 20 August and 22 August. I pre-ordered on 19 August 2021, and my order is still at processing. Flip 3 lavender 256gb btw.

last week i already complain to MCMC, then today after calling them for 3rd time and saw they charged me twice in span of 2 days i complain to KPDNHEP. dunno if it will help but saje try only. also sent a long email to my_shop detailing all this

I finally got my Flip3 last Saturday evening, been using it a couple of days to get the battery optimised and get used to Android again.

Some personal thoughts about the phone:

Battery Life:

For the screenshot above, I ran the battery down to 0% for that day, then fully recharge to 100%. I am never anxious about battery life, but Flip3 is the first phone to make me feel like that. I'm still WFH yet the percentage drops quite fast, even with 3 hours of screen on time. It's like every minute or so the percentage will drop by 1%. Still, I will reserve judgement after 1-2 weeks of use. Flip3 is DEFINITELY NOT for heavy media consumption or gaming. BTW, I also have cover screen AOD on all the time, but the screen itself is at the lowest brightness.

Home screen setup:

After realising I'm too old to bother with KLWP/KWGT, I decided to go with Niagara Launcher. It's very good at minimising distractions and give you access to your favourite apps, with a swipe right shortcut on your app icons for their widgets. Very clean and just works. FYI, Niagara launcher does not work with the one-bar gesture navigation, meaning you can't open the multitasking screen if you use that option. On-screen buttons or 3 bar gestures only.

Design
Absolutely beautiful to look and touch. It screams high end quality, mad props to Samsung for this revision of the Flip formula. When unfolded, the Flip3 is very thin. The fact that it can be folded never registered that much to me when I tested the phone before launch, but now I can't stop appreciating it. Sometimes I just fold the phone up a few degrees and browse my content, its so trippy to watch content moving up and down like that 

Get ready for people to keep looking at you in awe whenever you flip this bad boy out in public.

Screen
As always, Samsung OLED screens are still king, browsing Reddit is way more exciting on the Flip3. Retina scorching colours and clarity. Since the screen is so tall, don't forget to enable Side key swipe for notification panel access.
The cover screen is actually useful, and if you enable always on AOD you can always see the time, anytime. It also has a shortcut to mute the phone, definitely helps me as that's one thing I miss from my iPhone.

Cameras
Meh. Don't buy this phone if you're really into photography, the quality is nothing special. I especially hate the fact that human skin tone is so flattened out in Flip3 images, its like there's a built in beauty filter you can't turn off. Any Android pros here that can help me out with this?

Here are some pain points that I discovered:

-MySejahtera QR codes sometimes cannot be scanned by this phone. Don't zoom in, but pull back and it will work....most of the time.
-The main screen is quite soft so if you have long fingernails, it will be damaged. You can literally leave marks the screen if you press on it with sharp nails so be careful
-The screen protector is a dust magnet. It will gather dust near the edges of the protector, especially near the front facing camera. I hope the free SamsungCare+ can replace this for free coz it will get ugly over time
-If you connect Spotify to your car over Bluetooth, the app will somehow play music 5-10 minutes after you leave your car. But I suspect this is an Android thing
-The flipping thing is very cool, but now I realise its quite hard to open the phone with one hand. Not a dealbreaker for me, but something worth to highlight
-You cannot flip this phone open like old flip phones from the 90s/2000s. Yes, technically you can still do it but you need to flip it open quite hard. IDK if that's something you wanna do on a RM4K piece of sensitive technology
-The SmartSwitch app will take FOREVER to transfer everything from my iPhone, in my case its about 6 hours to process everything. Yet it didn't even transfer my WhatsApp messages. I factory reset my Flip3 twice and the WhatsApp messages still did not transfer. I gave up in the end.

To end this piece, here are some of my recommended replacement apps if you come from iOS:

Reddit:
Infinity for Reddit (what I use)
Boost for Reddit
Redditoria

News client - FocusReader

To the rest of you still waiting for your Flip3 from 22nd September, just gotta keep pushing the CS to do their work. It's really sad to know that they never actually had units in stock and we are forced to fight for whatever stock is left. I hope you get yours very soon.

Just got myself the green silicon with ring today at 3 damansara samsung. Think they still got stock there

Anyone under Epp got update..?
After 1 month of order...silent..nothing haha..

Fold 3

The packaging I got got no blue sticker. Just the standard "don't receive if seal is broken" stickers in black

Nope.. no blue sticker. Most probable because of preorder item.