Today Samsung is holding its second Mobile Unpacked occasion for the yr, asserting the brand new Galaxy Z Flip Three and the brand new Galaxy Z Fold 3. It’s a little bit of an uncommon Unpacked occasion in comparison with previous years as this time round and for this yr we gained’t be seeing a brand new Galaxy Note machine.
The new Galaxy Z units observe as iterations to their predecessors – the unique Z Flip introduced in February final yr and Z Flip 5G later in August, and the Z Fold 2 which was additionally introduced across the similar time in 2020.
Both units are apparent characterised by their folding form-factor designs, which Samsung this yr has iterated on, included new {hardware} internals, and customarily simply polished their performance in comparison with their predecessors. Samsung’s focus in direction of foldables appears to consequence because the market typically is discovering it onerous to distinguish oneself in-between rivals.
| Galaxy Z Phones 2021 | |||
| Galaxy Z Flip 3 | Galaxy Z Fold 3 | ||
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 1x Cortex-X1 @ 2.84GHz 3x Cortex-A78 @ 2.42GHz 4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz Adreno 660 @ 840MHz |
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| DRAM | 8GB LPDDR5-6400 | 12GB LPDDR5-6400 | |
| Primary Display | 6.7″ AMOLED 2640 x 1080 120Hz Refresh |
7.6″ AMOLED Foldable 2208 x 1768 120Hz Refresh |
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| Secondary Display | 1.9″ 260 x 512 |
6.2″ AMOLED 2260 x 832 120Hz Refresh |
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| Size | Height | 166mm (unfolded) | 158.2mm |
| Width | 72.2mm | 67.1mm (folded) 128.1mm (unfolded) |
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| Depth | 15.9 – 17.1mm (folded) 6.9mm (unfolded) |
14.4 – 16.0mm (folded) 6.4mm (unfolded) |
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| Weight | 183g | 271g | |
| Battery Capacity | 3300mAh (Typical)
15W |
4400mAh (Typical)
25W |
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| Wireless Charging | 10W | 10W | |
| Rear Cameras | |||
| Main | 12MP 1.4µm DP PDAF
f/1.8 26.8mm eq. |
12MP 1.8µm DP PDAF
f/1.8 26.8mm eq. |
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| Telephoto | – |
12MP 1.0µm
f/2.4 51mm eq. |
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| Extra Telephoto |
– | – | |
| Ultra-Wide | 12MP 1.12µm
f/2.2 |
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| Extra | – | – | |
| Front Camera | Hold-Punch (Unfolded) 10MP 1.22µm f/2.2 25.7mm eq. |
Under-Display (unfolded) 4MP 2.0µm f/1.8 Hole-Punch (folded) |
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| Storage | 128 / 256GB UFS 3.1 |
256 / 512GB UFS 3.1 |
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| I/O | USB-C | ||
| Wireless (native) | 802.11ax (Wifi 6), Bluetooth 5.1 |
802.11ax (Wifi 6E), Bluetooth 5.2 |
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| Cellular | 4G + 5G NR NSA+SA Sub-6GHz + mmWave | ||
| Special Features | Under-screen fingerprint sensor Stereo audio system It flips |
Under-screen fingerprint sensor Stereo audio system It folds |
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| Splash, Water, Dust Resistance | IPx8 | IPx8 | |
| Dual-SIM | nano-SIM + eSIM | 2x nano-SIM + eSIM | |
| Launch OS | Android 11 w/ OneUI 3.1 | ||
| Launch Price | 8+128GB: $999 / 1059€ 8+256GB: $ / 1109€ |
12+256GB: $1799 / 1799€ 12+512GB: $ / 1899€ |
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Starting off with the {hardware}, the brand new Galaxy Z units at the moment are powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 chipset for all international variants of the telephones, which ought to give the telephones glorious efficiency. It’s to be famous that these foldable telephones have probably much less thermal dissipation capabilities because the extra conventional “bar” type units, so it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how Samsung handles the elevated energy envelope of the brand new SoC in comparison with final yr’s Snapdragon 865.
The telephones include 8GB of RAM on the Z Flip Three and 12GB on the Z Fold 3. Storage choices for the Flip are 128 or 256GB, whereas the Fold doubles it to 256GB or 512GB – each UFS 3.1.
The Z Fold 3’s total design hasn’t modified all that a lot from the Z Fold 2 – the interior display screen continues to be a 7.6” 2208 x 1768 plastic AMOLED panel with the notable attribute that it’s versatile and foldable. It additionally continues the 120Hz refresh price.
The bigger change on the panel isn’t regarding the panel itself however somewhat to the entrance digital camera, which is now utilizing Samsung’s first ever iteration of an under-screen digital camera design. The digital camera…
