The battery on the Fold 7 isn’t the largest we’ve seen by a wide margin, but it excels elsewhere.
After weeks of leaks, rumors, and plain old speculation, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is out. It is a massive upgrade over the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and truly shows that Samsung has been listening to its user base.
Well…to an extent, at least.
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 improved in many aspects, except the battery. | Video credit — Samsung
When leaks started talking about a Galaxy foldable that was only 8.9 mm thick when folded, I was very confused seeing the other reports of a 4,400 mAh battery. Why would Samsung improve the thickness, the crease, the cameras, and the durability of its foldable but still use a very outdated battery?
Going purely by numbers, there are other foldable phones out there that have much better batteries. For example, the two that I often cite as examples, the Oppo Find N5 and the newly released Honor Magic V5. Both are powerful phones with minimal crease visibility and much better batteries.
Samsung, on the other hand, still hasn’t adopted silicon batteries and has brought over the same battery as the one found in the Fold 6. Furthermore, the charging speeds remain painfully slow as well, relatively speaking. Fold 7 battery specs confirm that this is one aspect where Samsung did not put any effort in.
