Samsung Galaxy Fold With 7.3-inch Infinity Flex display, 4.6-inch AMOLED cover display, 12GB RAM, 6 Cameras Launched

Along with the Samsung Galaxy S10 series smartphones: Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, and Galaxy S10e, the company also introduced its first foldable phone called the Samsung Galaxy Fold at Galaxy Unpacked 2019 event in San Francisco. The handset features a 7.3-inch QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED Infinity Flex Display with 4.2:3 aspect ratio, which folds into a compact device with a 4.6-inch HD+ Super AMOLED cover display with 21:9 aspect ratio.

Samsung Galaxy Fold Price and Availability

Samsung Galaxy Fold price in USA has been set at $1980 for the 5G variant and will start selling the device beginning April 26, 2019 in the USA through AT&T and T-Mobile. The device will be offered in Green, Blue, Silver and Black. The company notes, the smartphone will be sold in both 4G LTE and 5G variants.

Samsung Galaxy Fold Features

The Galaxy Fold combines two screens in one device – one main flexible display of 7.3-inch Infinity Flex Display and the other secondary screen of 4.6-inch, which can be folded to turn the phone into a compact device that can easily fit in your pocket. The company claims that it had to work on the Galaxy Fold from the ground up and create new manufacturing processes, components, and a lot more to turn the phone from a concept into reality.

To make sure the Galaxy Fold’s folding mechanism works as intended, the company has given the phone a robust backbone in the form of a sophisticated hinge, which uses interlocking gears. This hinge is cleverly hidden in the body of the phone and is not visible at all on the outside, helping the phone keep its elegant look.

It has new UX with several features such as App Continuity so apps will automatically show up where you leave off when you open and close the display and the Multi-Active Window lets you open up to three active apps simultaneously on the main display so you can surf, text, work, watch and share easily.

It uses new polymer layer that makes the display around 50% thinner than the typical smartphone display and the new material makes Galaxy Fold flexible and tough, built to last. It has a hinge with multiple interlocking gears housed in a hidden enclosure for a seamless closing and opening, and elegant look. It has fingerprint on the side where the thumb naturally rests, so the device unlocks easily and features engraved hinge with Samsung logo complete its elegant fit and finish.

Samsung Galaxy Fold Specifications

The Samsung Galaxy Fold features a 7.3-inch QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED 4.2:3 aspect ratio main display, and a 4.6-inch HD+ Super AMOLED 21:9 aspect ratio cover display. It is powered by an octa-core processor which supported by Snapdragon 855 7nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 640 GPU and 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM. It packs a 512GB of inbuilt storage with UFS 2.0 support.

On the camera front, the Samsung Galaxy Fold comes with a total of six cameras – three are placed on the back, two on the inside, and one on the front. Let’s start with the rear cameras: a 16-megapixel ultra wide camera with an f/2.2 aperture, a 12-megapixel wide-angle camera, with Dual Pixel AF, OIS, and variable f/1.5 to f/2.4 aperture; and finally, a 12-megapixel telephoto camera with PDAF, OIS, an f/2.4 aperture, and 2X optical zoom. As for the front dual camera, it features a 10-megapixel f/2.2 primary sensor and an 8-megapixel RBG depth camera with an f/1.9 aperture. Finally, the cover camera is a 10-megapixel selfie camera with an f/2.2 aperture.

The Galaxy Fold has a fingerprint on the side where the thumb naturally rests, so the device unlocks easily. The handset runs on Android 9.0 Pie OS out of the box. It has two batteries for a total of 4,380mAh battery and comes with support for wired and wireless fast charging. It also supports Stereo speakers tuned by AKG, Dolby Atmos and for connectivity includes 5G Sub6 / mmWave (28G, 39G), 4G VoLTE, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, VHT80 4×4 MIMO, GPS, GLONASS, Bluetooth 5, NFC, MST and USB 3.1 port.

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