Updated May 26: Article originally posted May 25.
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 is about to be launched and the most recent details in regards to the foldable smartphone will excite the community.
Galaxy Z Fold 5 smartphones during a Galaxy Unpacked event in Seoul, South Korea (Photographer: … [+]
Update: Sunday, May 26: The Galaxy Z Fold 6 might not be the one Z Fold model we’ll see this 12 months. Well-known industry analyst Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has highlighted the potential for a thinner model of the Z Fold 6 to be launched within the last quarter of the 12 months:
“Hear a few Samsung Fold 6 Slim, Q4’24, greater display than the Fold 6. Price [is] probably just like the Fold 6. No pen input.”
Although the Galaxy Z Fold 6 is predicted to be the one Fold model to be unveiled on the Galaxy Unpacked event this summer, Samsung has been teasing two variants of the model, with details on a less expensive Z Fold 6 Fan Edition and a more powerful and splendid Z Fold 6 Ultra; each models were popular with the community.
There is a consensus that only a single Galaxy Z Fold 6 will probably be unveiled on the upcoming event, but Young’s comment has brought the concept of ​​a variant with a thinner Galaxy Z Fold 6 back into the highlight; it might remove the S Pen and its associated digitizer from the display and make several internal changes to cut back dimensions.
In particular, an updated Galaxy Z Fold launching early within the fourth quarter would allow Samsung to pitch a brand latest premium smartphone against Apple’s iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro handsets, which launch in September.
A latest report from The Elec underlines Samsung’s decision to proceed using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 series within the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, maintaining the established order of the previous Z Fold models.
This confirmation follows sightings of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 hardware on popular online benchmarking service Geekbench. At the time, it was only a single variant of the handset, destined for a particular network, but it surely ran the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. Many within the Samsung community hoped that this was not only a single data point, but an indication that the Z Fold 6 could be powered exclusively by the Snapdragon chipset.
Samsung has returned to a mixture of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset and its own Samsung Exynos chipset on the 2024 Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+, although the premium Galaxy S24 Ultra was powered solely by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the identical chipset that The Elec expects to power the Galaxy Z Fold 6 range.
The community will probably be glad about this news. While the Exynos has higher Battery lifeSnapdragon performance is stronger– around six percent greater than the Exynos in CPU performance and twenty percent more in 3D performance. This is a compromise that the community has been asking for in Galaxy releases for a few years, with a survey on SamMobile This implies that support for Snapdragon over Exynos is at 83 percent.
Samsung is predicted to unveil the Galaxy Z Fold 6 at a Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris in early July, ahead of its sponsorship of the Summer Olympics in France.
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