Samsung’s newly released Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition should serve as the basis for the Galaxy Z Fold 7. And I hope it’ll get cheaper.
I can’t blame you if you like the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition foldable that Samsung launched in Korea earlier this week. It’s thinner and lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and it offers a specs bump over its predecessor. Specifically, you get two slightly larger displays, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a 200-megapixel main camera.
You also have to pay $2,000 for that package, and the foldable is only available in Korea for now. China might be the only other market that gets the new phone.
Now that Samsung has shown the world it can produce a foldable that’s much thinner than anything it manufactured before, it can’t go back to thicker folding gadgets. That’s why Samsung fans should be so excited right now The Galaxy Z Fold 7 will have to be as thin as the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition, if not even thinner. And it’ll have to drop in price too.
For years, Samsung stuck to the same basic Z Fold design, choosing to refine the foldable incrementally over the years. That’s not a bad approach, and I say that as a longtime iPhone user who is more than accustomed to Apple’s way of updating the iPhone design from year to year.
But Samsung wants to be seen as the main innovator in the foldable space.
