Samsung kicked-off its foldable smartphone journey with the Galaxy Fold last year. It was launched alongside the Galaxy S10 lineup and though it faced a few hiccups along the way (I bet you know what I’m referring to), the Galaxy Fold made its way to various markets, including India, and sold like hotcakes – even if in limited quantities. Well, it has been a year and Samsung has today launched its second-gen foldable, the Galaxy Z Flip, alongside the Galaxy S20 lineup at the Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco.

  • Clamshell Design

Samsung has today realized its concept foldable form factor that it first showed off at a developer conference last year with the Galaxy Z Flip. As I have already told you, Moto Razr now has a competitor and that too a pretty tough one. Samsung has not only built Galaxy Z Flip to be sleek and attractive, with its prism gradient and purple color variant, but overall, it looks more durable as well. We will shed more light on this in the display section below. Image Courtesy: Twitter/evleaks

Clamshell Design

  • Durable Foldable Display

The highlight of the Galaxy Z Flip is the 6.7-inch Full-HD+ OLED display on the inside. This plastic OLED panel (which is better known as a foldable display) with a taller 21.9:9 aspect ratio, 1080 x 2636-pixels resolution, and 425ppi pixel density.

Durable Foldable Display

The most significant upgrade in Samsung’s second-gen foldable phone will have to be the new protection layer over the foldable display. I hope you remember the screen breaking debacle that forced Samsung to return back to its drawing board and delayed the Galaxy Fold launch.

You can also see that there’s a punch-hole cutout at the top and it houses a 10MP (f/2.4) selfie camera. It will not only come in handy for taking a quick selfie when the phone is being used unfolded, but Samsung has also optimized the software (as well as hardware) such that you can lock the hinge at different angles and prop up the phone during video calls. This is called Flex Mode and a number of apps have been optimized to make use of this feature.

Cover Display

Flagship Internals

Unlike the foldable Moto Razr, Samsung is giving flagship internals with its mass-appeal clamshell-style foldable phone. Galaxy Z Flip is backed by the Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset from last year and is coupled with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage.

  • Cameras

Cameras

Battery+Charging

As the Galaxy Z Flip is pretty slim, we didn’t expect the foldable to pack a huge battery. The device comes equipped with a tiny 3300mAh battery, which is split into two halves — 2375 mAh in the bottom half and 925mAh in the upper half.

Specs Round-up

Before we talk about the pricing details, here’s a quick specifications round-up for the Galaxy Z Flip:

Price and Availability

Galaxy Z Flip has been priced at $1,380 (around Rs. 98,500) and will go on sale from February 14. It will be available in 3 attractive color variants namely Mirror Purple, Mirror Black, and Mirror Gold (in some select countries). Samsung has partnered with Thom Browne to bring to life an even premium-looking Galaxy Z Flip.