Samsung is expected to substantially improve the battery capacity of this year’s Galaxy Z Flip 7 over last year’s Z Flip 6, which in turn packed a significantly larger cell than the Z Flip 5.
If you know how Samsung typically conducts its yearly product upgrades, you probably didn’t have very high expectations from the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7 in terms of battery life improvements over its 2024 predecessor.
But surprise, surprise, a new report from a very credible source claims that the company’s next big Android-powered flip phone will essentially be to the Z Flip 6 what said 2024 model was to 2023’s Galaxy Z Flip 5, at least from a battery capacity perspective.
Yes, I am as astounded as you to discuss the very distinct possibility today that the Z Flip 7 could pack a battery size of around 4,300mAh this year. That would be up from 4,000mAh on last year’s Z Flip 6, which in turn represented an important enhancement over the 3,700mAh cell capacity of the Z Flip 5 before it.
In contrast, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, Z Fold 5, Z Fold 4, and even the Z Fold 3 all offered the exact same 4,400mAh battery capacity, and believe it or not, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 actually stood at a slightly higher 4,500mAh mark all the way back in 2020. Even if this year’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 manages to bump up that figure (which is by no means a guarantee for the time being), it’s pretty obvious that Samsung is employing two radically different upgrading strategies for its two distinct foldable families.
