The Truth About the Escobar Folding Phone!

Hello, what's up guys? Here mkbhd, okay, it's time for storytelling, so it's 2020. Foldable smart

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s are all the rage and there are a ton of different options now, almost none of which you should probably buy, but I mean, we have the Galaxy Z flip from Samsung, we have the Galaxy. fold the Moto razor and then the rest, you know everything from the TCL triple

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concept to the Royal flexpa and you may have seen another story floating around about another foldable phone from Escobar, yes, Escobar is just a small complement to the name of Escobar. If you're not familiar, then Pablo Escobar was the Colombian drug trafficker and he ended up being known as basically the richest criminal in history for monopolizing the cocaine trade in the United States before, fun fact, he died from a gunshot wound in head the day before my death.

I was born so you know that this is not exactly a positive feeling around this name, like being known for murders of police and politicians and making Colombia the murder capital of the world. It's not the best way to get your name out there, but it's a household name. like everyone has heard of Escobar, so now suddenly on all the technology websites this new foldable phone with the name Escobar appears, interestingly enough, and it is attracting a lot of eyes, attracting attention, it is very interesting and It costs between 3 and 50 dollars and look The actual phone is curious, it has a touch of gold, which is a nice touch, but if you study the specs or the design enough, you literally realize that it is just a cake of real flow with a touch of gold taped on, so naturally I ordered. one, so on December 5, 2019 I spent my $350 free shipping and placed my Escobar Fold order.

Something that a lot of people think about this channel is that I get everything for free and while that's true, I get review units and will do first. impressions videos with those, I end up buying almost everything I review on this channel, so I haven't reviewed the razor motor

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phone yet, for example, because I returned the review unit, with that I made first impressions and now the The one I bought was gone for several weeks, so I didn't contact Escobar Inc anyway. I didn't even think to ask if they had a review program. I just quietly bought one so that was in December and yeah I never got it.

I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he was a little suspicious to begin with. I mean, you look at their website and it's a little suspicious. There are some pretty crazy images and claims trying to sell you on this phone. Some pretty bold stuff. claims and overall it's not the most professional website I've ever bought a phone from, but I think we knew from the beginning that it wouldn't be. I would never really get this phone, so I put the money on the long shot. I was surprised and then, hey, that would be kind of funny, but when I put my order on the tracker, they never updated pending, they just said it was in production for months, so that was it, you know, we never made a video.

We were sharing some other interesting things at the time, it went unnoticed, it was just wasted money, that's where I thought it would end, but then we saw headlines about another new foldable phone from Escobar, it was who is the Escobar foldable. - and once again there were articles, there were headlines, there were even some videos of this new thing, a $400 Escobar foldable phone that looks like this, it looks kind of familiar again, oh that's just a Samsung Galaxy Fold and then, the February 2, I received an email from Escobar Inc. just asking for a mailing address like what is your mailing address.

At that point, I was again really interested, but after a few back and forths, I basically turned it down because I wanted them to want to guarantee a video by sending it. For us and I wasn't willing to commit to guaranteeing a video just of them sending a phone, that's not something we do, so they ended up not sending one, but I bought a second one because apparently I liked giving away money to anything technological. related, so maybe if they want to buy the merchandise and support we won't have to worry about this as much, but I also bought another Escobar fold, so I didn't have the first one yet.

I went to your site again and bought the second one. under a different name so now I gave them $750 free shipping both times and got nothing in return so for a while I didn't get one and neither did a lot of other people but then videos started showing up and this always happens. I've had this happen to me before, where I rejected something in my inbox sometime and then a week later I see a bunch of videos about it on YouTube in my subbox, etc., so this is one of those things about the ones I was curious about. because the product is not that good but the company behind it and the schemes behind it are very strange so I tweeted this: zero out of 10 I wouldn't recommend it, I didn't get the phone both times I ordered but that night , believe it or not when I got home from the studio, which is the shipping address I entered for my first order, guess what was waiting for me at my door, a

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box from Escobar, so February 24th, which is like four days after this, this tweet and When the box appeared, I received an email saying they had updated my order from fold one to fold, which I think I believe because it had my name from the first order I placed and it went to the address of shipping my first order. placed and other people have gotten the same update who were also tech reviewers so the only reason I'm talking about this is because it's based on a tech product like I'm talking about tech but if this was happening with a kitchen product of appliance or some makeup product or something I probably wouldn't have cared that much, but because it's technology and they really seem to be trying hard to make it look like a great phone to buy, that's what made it so fascinating.

For me, it's fine, the unboxing experience is super simple and within about 30 seconds of using a phone and no, I'm not going to put my SIM card in it, but using the phone for just a moment, it's pretty clear that this appears to be a legit Samsung. Galaxy Fold and the new one, so I have my regular Galaxy Fold here with the dust caps on the hinges and the new slightly stiffer hinge and everything, and this Escobar Fold is the same phone with a gold sticker attached, no, actually It is actually a galaxy fold with gold foil adhesive.

You remove some of that gold from the hinge on the back and right below it is the Samsung logo, right where it's supposed to be, and the gold foil comes off the back with a utility knife. or a knife or enough heat to melt the adhesive so it's not pretty but yeah it's a real Galaxy Fold that works fully any of the stuff that normally comes in the box and it's a really poor rebranding job , it's a real Galaxy Fold, so at this point, if you're reviewing an Escobar Fold, you're really just reviewing a Samsung Galaxy Fold with a gold sticker on the back and some weird pre-installed wallpapers, but the The galaxy fold costs eighteen hundred dollars and the Escobar fold costs four hundred dollars, so how are they doing this?

It's not just lower quality packaging, it's not just lower quality marketing. My theory is that they are going through requests to find the names of YouTubers or just people in tech media or people who believe. they will talk about the phone if they receive it and they will send it and then they just won't send the rest, that's probably why they found my first order because it had my name attached to it and why they updated me and sent mine, they probably expected me to . talks pretty positively about it, that's why I tweeted what I did, but if you really want to dig into it, they tell everything on their site, so the two main people involved are these two guys, Roberto Escobar, and Pablo Escobar, his older brother and assassination boss. this other guy, Olaf Gustafson, who is now the CEO of Escobar Inc.

I don't know why both photos look like mugshots, maybe it's his good vibes or whatever, but there's a Twitter account behind this guy Olaf that Honestly, maybe he looks like a young man. Somewhat tech-savvy guy who just convinced this older guy that he can use Escobar's name and make a lot more money off it, so he's tweeted all these articles and tons of photos with celebrities somehow and seems very proud from any press I can get. even when he also cloned the company's boring flamethrower and tried to get Ilan to stop selling his and when he helped mr.

Escobar started a cryptocurrency that didn't exactly work out, but the marketing for Escobar is easily the best part, so if you go to his YouTube channel, which is really awesome, I'll link to it below. It currently has about fourteen videos, including a one minute video that scrolls back and forth on five phones, maybe all they had done at the time, there's an unboxing video that I'm pretty sure if I show more Three more seconds, this video will be monetized. They have a video called our Samsung IP communication where they take a bunch of unnamed original Galaxy folds out of the box and then put on safety glasses, but no other protective clothing, and then they start smashing the Galaxy folds with sledgehammers until they literally catch fire. fire. and if you search for it, you go to our IP samsung.com which is in the title and all these videos point out that the Escobar guys bought that URL and they have a redirect to Escobar inc.com, which is crazy because this phone does not exist without the Samsung phone and then there are two other backup videos so I guess that's how you make sure you sell a lot of Chris Hanson and Anna phones.

Hey guys, Chris Hanson here from Hanson vs. Predator and To Catch a Predator. I wanted to tell everyone that I have seen this amazing new smartphone called Escobar Folding Tube. It seems to be the best phone available right now. I've been looking at the transcripts, so sit back, check it out, and remember that I'll be there. Seeing it, it's probably a good thing they turned off comments on these videos. Hi, I'm not going to be from Sweden. I used to be married to singer Paul Anka and I just wanted to tell you that Escobar's faulty smartphone is really a really amazing innovation from some amazing people in Stockholm, Sweden.

I hope you enjoy it and use it much, much love mmm. It's also convenient that these two celebrities are on a site called cameo, which is where they can submit requests and pay. $50 or $100 or so and you get a custom video in return. I'm pretty sure the videos on this site are usually like Oh, let Arnold Schwarzenegger say happy birthday to your friend or something. I doubt these two people even know that their videos are being used to help promote a scam, so look, I'm a technical reviewer so I normally only focus on the final product, whether you buy it or not, but this piece of technology that we have already reviewed is the Galaxy Fold I.

I have talked about it, it only has gold foil on the back, so the interesting part now becomes the behind the scenes part, which is the company that such Maybe you are trying to sell some of them and also not send most of the ones you are trying to. Getting scammed is one of those situations where you know you have to take any preferential treatment you might get with a giant grain of salt, so I guess the lesson we've learned is that there are too many cases of people not getting there. Escobar Fold, for me, I recommend that you buy something from this company, so don't buy an Escobar Fold also if you want a Galaxy Fold which is very expensive, but normally I don't recommend that you buy one either.

Just for your own money safety, don't buy anything any of these guys are associated with. I took the hit so you don't have to. If you want a review of the Escobar Fold, check out my Galaxy Folder view. I've already done it, link below the like button if you want to watch it, that's it, it's the

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, thanks for watching, I'll catch you guys in the next one, peace.