Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold2 had been initially introduced a number of weeks in the past alongside the Notice20 sequence, nonetheless the corporate had been delaying the official launch of the telephone till September. Well, September has now come and Samsung is now prepared to completely unveil the specs of the brand new flagship foldable telephone and eventually beginning to take pre-orders.
The new iteration is a vital generational evolution over final 12 months’s problem-ridden Galaxy Fold, promising to notably enhance a number of the key weaknesses of the primary design.
| Samsung Galaxy Folds | ||
| Galaxy Z Fold2 | Galaxy Fold | |
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ 1x Cortex A77 @ 3.1GHz 3x Cortex A77 @ 2.42GHz 4x Cortex A55 @ 1.80GHz Adreno 650 @ 670MHz |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 1x Kryo 485 (CA76) @ 2.84GHz 3x Kryo 485 (CA76) @ 2.42GHz 4x Kryo 485 (CA55) @ 1.80GHz Adreno 640 |
| Display | Main Display:
7.6″ 2208 x 1768 Cover show: 6.2″ 2260 x 816 |
Main Display:
7.3″ 2048 x 1536 Cover show: 4.6″ 1680 x 720 |
| Dimensions | Folded: 159.2 x 68.Zero x 13.8 – 16.8mm Unfolded: 282g |
Folded: 160.9 x 62.Eight x 15.7 – 17.1mm Unfolded: 276g |
| RAM | 12GB LPDDR5 | 12GB LPDDR4X |
| NAND | 256GB UFS3.1 | 512GB UFS3.0 |
| Battery | 4500mAh (17.41Wh) typ. | 4380mAh (16.86Wh) |
| Front Camera | Cover & Front Cameras (2x equivalent) 10MP 1.22μm |
Cover Camera: 10MP f/2.2 “Selfie camera” Front digital camera: Front digital camera: |
| Primary Rear Camera | 83° Wide Angle 12MP 1.8µm Dual Pixel PDAF f/1.Eight w/ OIS |
77° Wide Angle 12MP 1.4µm Dual Pixel PDAF Adjustable aperture f/1.5 or f/2.4 |
| Secondary Rear Camera | 123° Ultra-Wide Angle 12MP 1.12µm f/2.2 |
123° Ultra-Wide Angle 16MP 1.0µm f/2.2 |
| Tertiary Rear Camera | 45° / Telephoto lens 2x zoom 12MP 1.0µm f/2.Four w/OIS |
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| SIM Size | ??? | NanoSIM |
| Wireless | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2×2 MU-MIMO, BT 5.Zero LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BDS |
802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2×2 MU-MIMO, BT 5.Zero LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BDS |
| Connectivity | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| Features | They each fold | |
| Launch OS | Android 10 | Android 9.0 |
| Launch Price | $1999 | $1980 / 2000€ |
From a specification standpoint, the brand new Z Fold2 updates its {hardware} to the latest Snapdragon 865+ from Qualcomm which we’ve seen in lots of the current smartphone releases this summer season.
Samsung opted to maintain the RAM regular at 12GB, and oddly sufficient we’ve seen a discount within the storage division because the Z Fold2 comes with 256GB of UFS3.1 storage, half of the 512GB of the primary Galaxy Fold.
Big upgrades embody a brand new redesigned display screen with a extra sturdy and higher functioning hinge mechanism. The new show grows to six.7” diagonal when unfolded, reaching a brand new 2208 x 1768 decision.
Samsung right here did away with the large nook notch with the a number of entrance cameras, as an alternative choosing a hole-punch digital camera in the appropriate half of the interior display screen. The digital camera module here’s a 10MP unit with 1.22µm pixels and f/2.2 optics.
An even bigger show improve has been made on the quilt show aspect of the telephone, as the brand new display screen grows from 4.6” to six.2”, with a lot much less bezel surrounding it. It’s a giant change within the seems of the telephone and makes the quilt show considerably extra usable. Samsung right here additionally opted for a hole-punch digital camera on the high centre of the panel, with an equivalent 10MP module as the interior entrance digital camera.
In phrases of the first rear-facing cameras, the principle unit has seen an…
