Galaxy Z Fold ‘10.6mm thick’ launched… Samsung also joins the ‘War of Thinness’

The thinnest and lightest in the series ever
Camera pixels and memory capacity are also boosted
China also offers products with a thickness of around 10mm

Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition on the 21st. The thickness is 10.6mm, which is 1.5mm thinner than the previous model. Powered by Samsung Electronics Samsung announced on the 21st that it will launch the ‘Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition (SE)’, the thinnest and lightest smartphone in the ‘Galaxy Z Fold’ series ever , on the 25th. Samsung Electronics, which is engaged in a thick war with Chinese companies in the foldable smartphone market, has promoted ‘thin but powerful performance’ as its competitive edge.

The biggest feature of the Galaxy Z Fold SE is that it is the thinnest and lightest among the Galaxy Z Fold series ever. When folded, it has a standard thickness of 10.6mm and a weight of 236g, making it 1.5mm thinner and 3g lighter than its predecessor, the Galaxy Z Fold 6. It’s thinner and lighter, but the wider screen. The diagonal length of the main screen when unfolded is 203.1 mm (8 inches), which is about 10 mm wider than the previous model’s 193.2 mm (7.6 inches).

Samsung Electronics confirmed that the screen of the cover when it is folded also has a display with a ratio of 21: 9 and a diagonal length of 164.8 mm (6.5 inches), providing the same use and grip as the smartphones existing bar type.

There was also a strong performance. It is the first in the Galaxy Z Fold series to be equipped with a 200-megapixel wide-angle camera. It is four times better than the 50 million pixel wide-angle camera of its predecessor, the Galaxy Z Fold 6. The ‘Mate XT’, a ‘dual-fold’ folding smartphone, has a 50-megapixel primary camera Huawei recently published and became a hot topic. It is also expected that the RAM memory capacity will increase to 16GB (gigabytes) compared to the previous model (12GB), providing a smoother user experience. The application processor (AP), the ‘brain’, is equipped with the same ‘Snapdragon 8 3rd generation for Galaxy’ as the previous model.

The Galaxy Z Fold SE is released in one model with a shade of black and a storage capacity of 512GB. Product sales will begin at 9 a.m. on the 25th through Samsung.com and the official online outlets of the three mobile communications companies. The price is 2,789,600 won, an increase of about 400,000 won compared to the previous model with the same capacity (2,388,100 won). Samsung Electronics plans to provide discount coupons for the Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Watch Ultra, Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, and Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra products to customers who purchase and activate the products before the end of this year. Pop-up stores where you can experience and buy products will be run for two weeks at 15 department stores across the country starting on the 25th.

Usually, Samsung Electronics smartphones are released during the ‘Galaxy Unpack’ event in July and August. The previous model, Galaxy Z Fold 6, was also released in Paris, France in July. In just three months, they launched a flagship product with better performance and hardware compared to the previous product. Analysis suggests that this is a response to competition with Chinese smartphones, which have recently emphasized ‘thinness’ and ‘innovation’.

According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, Samsung Electronics’ global foldable phone market share in the first quarter of this year (January to March) was 23%, losing first place to Huawei (35%) . Another Chinese company, Honor, overtook Samsung Electronics in the Western European market in the second quarter of this year (April to June) and took market share for the first time. Huawei’s flagship foldable smartphone ‘Mate X5’ is 11.1mm thin when folded, while Honor’s ‘Magic V3’ is 9.3mm thin. The thickness of ‘Mix Fold 4’ which Xiaomi introduced recently is only 9.47mm.