This is what the Galaxy Z Flip 7 should have always been.
Let’s be honest: Samsung has been sleepwalking the whole foldable phone thing, lulled to sleep by the lack of real competition. The evolution of the Flip series in particular has been painfully slow.
However, in the past couple of years, the competition finally showed up in the face of the Motorola Razr series. With edge-to-edge screens and sleek designs, Motorola showed that a better flip phone was possible.
It has taken Samsung a while to wake up from that sleep, but awake it is with the new Flip 7, which is everything flip phone users wanted. It’s the Flip in its prime, and it would have been perfect, if not for this one little detail.
At the moment of publishing this review, the Flip 7 scores second on our Flip phone ranking, falling behind the Motorola Razr Ultra (2025). The main reason for that are the lower performance scores, as the Razr uses the much more powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. The Galaxy holds its own in other aspects and beats the Motorola when it comes to software.
Keep in mind that there is a big gap in the price of these two flip phones — $1,100 for the Flip 7 and $1,300 for the Razr Ultra. For more detail, we have our direct Galaxy Z Flip 7 vs Razr Ultra comparison.
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The Flip 7 has everything you expect to see in a flagship flip phone. Well, almost everything:
Yep, the exception is that Samsung Exynos 2500 chip inside it, not a Snapdragon chip! Why? And really? But also, does it really matter? We explain more in the performance section.
Galaxy Z Flip 7 Design and Display
Samsung has been on a mission of its own in the world: make phones thinner and lighter. And while many people might criticize it for not including bigger batteries, we think that there is a lot of value in slimmer devices.
In the case of the Flip 7, it’s about a millimeter thinner and a tiny bit lighter. Those might seem like small details, but they matter.
Samsung also brings colors back, especially with that saturated blue color on the Flip 7, and have you seen the Coral Red version? It’s time we moved away from boring phones indeed. You also have a fourth option, the mint colorway, only available via Samsung.com.
There is nothing remarkable in the box of the Galaxy Z Flip 7. You’d find the standard USB-C charging cable, a SIM tool, the user manuals, but no charger, no pre-applied screen protector and nothing else really.
There are two screens to discuss here and both have received some welcome upgrades.
The 4.1-inch size of the «Flex Window» aka the cover screen is the big highlight, and it’s such a massive difference that you don’t fully appreciate until you start using the phone. And did we mention this is now a 120Hz screen, a big upgrade from the 60Hz refresh rate on the cover screen of the Flip 6? Nice.
The other difference is the slightly wider 21:9 aspect ratio of the main screen, a change from the taller 22:9 aspect ratio Samsung used before. Again, a small detail that helps a lot with usability.
Our display lab tests that we run diligently for every phone show good numbers for peak brightness (look at the 20% number for the best reference).
The Flip 7 can also get very dim for comfortable use at night, a trick that not many other phones can do.
When it comes to biometrics, you have a fingerprint scanner embedded in the power key, and it works as you’d expect — fast and accurate.
Galaxy Z Flip 7 Camera
There are no changes in the camera hardware on the Flip 7.
