I Finally Held a Foldable That Doesn’t Feel Like Two Stacked Phones: the Galaxy Z Fold 7
If I closed my eyes and put the Samsung Galaxy Z Pl 7 in my hands, I think you gave me one of the dozens of ordinary phones that share a similar shape and weight. But when I open my eyes, then I would exceed the two panels of this new phone, well, it’s a whole different story.
I was able to discover the Z Fold 7 with the eyes wide open during the unpacked event of Samsung in New York last week, as well as the Z Flip 7 and Z Flip 7 Fe. I used many foldable phones, but the feeling of these struck me as the future of the category.
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Look at this: Ultra thin: First look at the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7
8.9 mm thick when folded and weighing 215 grams, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 does not feel very different from a standard slate phone. The 6.5 -inch cover screen makes something that I can see to scroll through social media, the text and watch videos.
But when open, Samsung’s foldable book style is anything but ordinary. Only 4.2 mm thick, it has an extremely thin profile which steals the even light on the edge Galaxy S25 5.8 mm thick. The 8 -inch interior display is 11% larger than that of the Z Fold 6 from last year, which should help in multitasking. And a Gorilla Glass Cait in ceramic 2 and a Victo 2 back make it feel good and robust.
The Z Fold 7 is exactly like what foldable phones have endeavored to be all along: thin, light and spacious – and as “normal” as possible, at least where it matters. It also has an impressive 200 megapixel main camera, just like the ultra not so thin S25.
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 weighs 215 grams and has a more spacious display.
In an exclusive interview, Drew Blackard, the main vice-president of the management of mobile products from Samsung, told CNET that by decreasing the Giron and progressing cameras, the book style phone “is now a factor of consumer form”. After keeping the phone, I can understand what he means. The Z Fold 7 removes thicker cameras and scale cameras that previously characterized foldable, and introduces something that seems elegant and familiar.
Samsung is in no way the first company to launch a fine foldable; The search for Oppo N5, the Mate X6 of Huawei and Magic V3 of Honor also boasts of impressive designs, to name only a few. But with the release of the Galaxy S25 Edge and now the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Samsung doubles on the craze of the lean telephone.
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 has the same 200 megapixel camera as the S25 Ultra.
An ultra experience on an ultra-thin phone
By bringing its 200 -megapixel wide camera to the Z Fold 7 and S25 edge, Samsung proves that you do not have to compromise the quality of the camera for a thinner construction. This is a notable example of a foldable rupture of the material limitations which have traditionally reduced the cameras. It will be interesting to see how competitors strive to match or surpass this feat.
The Z Fold 7 also has an ultra-realizing camera of 12 megapixels and 10 megapixels, as well as 10 megapixel selfie cameras on interior and cover screens. I can’t wait to test the cameras of the phone in the real world.
Like the S25 series, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 contains an Elite Snapdragon 8 chip. It comes out of the box with an IU 8 and Android 16.
What may have relieved me the most was that the battery of the Z Fold 7 maintains the capacity of 4,400 mAh of last year, despite the thinner construction of the new phone. The biggest drawback on the S25 edge is its 3,900 mAh battery, which gives it the lowest capacity in the S25 series.
I was fully prepared for the Z Fold 7 to take a similar blow, but his widened real estate helped save him from this trap. The battery life is one of the biggest considerations when people buy a new phone, according to a CNET survey, so it’s the right Samsung has not reduced this. We will see how it really holds in my daily use and if it is a match for my endless Tiktok scrolling and my photo taking.
Price not so thin
The cutting -edge specifications of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 are not cheap. The phone starts at $ 2,000, $ 100 more than the Z Fold 6 last year.
You certainly pay a premium both for this thinner construction (the S25 EDGE starts at $ 1,100) and the ultra-grade camera (the S25 Ultra starts at $ 1,300).
The Z Fold 7 is available in black, blue shadow and silver shadow, as well as an exclusive mint color when you order on Samsung.com. Pre -orders are open now and phones arrive on July 25.
