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Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold6 during its Galaxy unbacked event in Paris. The technology giant said that the foldable device is thinner and lighter than its predecessor.
Arjun Kharpal | CNBC
Samsung will unveil a thinner version of its flagship foldable smartphone at a launch that should take place next month, while it is fighting Chinese rivals to deliver the thinnest devices to the market.
Folding phones, which have only one screen that can bend in half, has arrived at the home when Samsung is first launched such a device in 2019. But the Chinese players, especially Honor and Oppo, have since pleatedly released that are thinner and lighter than Samsung offers.
Why are thin folders important?
“With the foldables, the slimming has become more critical than ever because people are not ready to accept the compromise of a thicker and heavier phone to obtain real estate that a folding phone can deliver,” Ben Wood, chief analyst of CCS Insight, CNBC said on Thursday.
Honor, Oppo and other Chinese players have used their thin conceptions to differentiate themselves from Samsung.
Let’s look at a comparison: Samsung’s last foldable from 2024The Galaxy Z Fold6, is 12.1 millimeters ~ (0.48 inches) thick when folded and weighs 239 grams (8.43 Oz). Find of the Oppo N5which was released earlier this year, has an 8.93 millimeter thickness when closed and weighs 229 grams. The Honor Magic V3Who was launched last year, is 9.2 millimeters when folded and weighs 226 grams.
“Samsung must intensify” in foldable, said Wood.
And this is what the South Korean technology giant plans to do at its next launch, which is expected to take place next month.
“The most recent Galaxy Z series is the thinnest, lightest and most advanced foldable to date – meticulously designed and built to last,” said Samsung in a blog article on the phone earlier this month.
But competition does not let go. Honor provides for a launch on July 2 in China for his last folding phone, The Magic V5.
“The interesting thing for Samsung, if they can tackle the thinness that honor has achieved, will be an important step in the predecessor, it will be a tangible step in design,” said Wood.
Despite these advances through foldable, the apparatus market has not been as exciting as many hoped.
CCS Insight said that foldables will only represent 2% of the global smartphones market this year. Disteder phones can be a way to process the slow market, but consumer preferences should also change.
“There is a chance that by providing much thinner foldables that are more like the traditional monobloc phone, this will provide the opportunity to run the consumption heads and have them revisited the idea of having a folding device,” said Wood.
“However, I warn that foldables remain problematic because in many cases, consumers have trouble seeing why they need a folding device.”
Although the market remains small for foldables compared to traditional smartphones, the analyst noted Ming-Chi Kuo from TF International Securities on Wednesday said Apple – which was notably absent from this range of products – Plans To make an iPhone folding from next year.
