Everything Samsung Just Unveiled Unpacked July: Galaxy Z Fold 7, Watch 8 Ultra, More

It's difficult to judge that it's been six years since Samsung first entered nan foldable telephone market, but nan Z Fold 7 bears a level of sophistication and polish that tin only beryllium accomplished pinch experience.

The latest phone-to-tablet foldable features its thinnest and lightest creation yet, beating past year's Z Fold 6 by 3.2 mm successful thickness and 24 g successful weight. Pair that pinch larger screen and main screens -- 6.5 inches and 8 inches, respectively -- and you're looking astatine a foldable that yet squares evenly (at slightest astatine first glance) pinch competitors for illustration nan Oppo Find N5 and Honor Magic V5.

Samsung says it achieved this creation feat done strategical worldly choices, specified arsenic opting for thinner precocious armor aluminum to situation nan instrumentality and a tighter flex-hinge strategy astatine nan bend. The institution besides withdrew nan show coating that allowed erstwhile Z Fold models to support S Pen inputs, meaning nan Z Fold 7 won't registry stylus taps and gestures.

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This year's telephone is powered by nan Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, paired pinch 12 GB of RAM that should beryllium conscionable capable to grip multi-app workflows, AI tasks and intensive gaming. Unfortunately, Samsung has opted for nan aforesaid 4,400 mAh artillery capacity arsenic erstwhile Z Fold models, truthful don't expect a noticeable bump successful endurance this clip around.

Where nan Z Fold 7 did get a meaningful upgrade is successful nan camera, pinch nan main sensor now being a 200 MP wide lens that Samsung says captures 4 times much item and 44% brighter images. The remainder of nan rear triple-camera setup includes nan existing 12 MP ultrawide and 10 MP telephoto lens (3× optical zoom). Samsung besides swapped retired nan under-display camera successful nan soul surface for a much accepted 10 MP hole-punch sensor.

The Z Fold 7 is disposable for preorder coming astatine a starting value of $1,999 for nan 256 GB variant, and it's offered successful Blue Shadow, Jet Black, Silver Shadow and an online-exclusive Mint color. The instrumentality officially goes connected waste July 25.

While nan Z Fold 7 will inevitably get nan astir oohs and ahhs, it's nan Z Flip 7 that astir consumers will apt attraction astir and extremity up buying. That's been nan lawsuit for nan past six years, and I don't expect it to alteration this twelvemonth -- not successful this economy.

With nan caller Z Flip 7, Samsung has upgraded nan instrumentality successful almost each way, from nan hardware and creation to nan artillery and package features. On nan creation front, you're now looking astatine a 4.1-inch FlexWindow (outer screen) that's some brighter (2,600 nits) and smoother (120 Hz) than ever. That intends nan surface spans from 1 area of nan telephone erstwhile folded to nan other, pinch minimal bezels around.

Naturally, nan soul show has besides gotten a spec bump, now measuring 6.9 inches. Beyond surface size, Samsung has besides made nan Z Flip overmuch thinner this year, astatine 13.7 mm heavy compared to past year's 14.9 mm. Despite nan trimming, nan Z Flip 7 manages to battalion a larger 4,300 mAh artillery that Samsung says tin grip up to 31 hours of video playback time.

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The improved endurance whitethorn beryllium chalked up to nan caller (and somewhat controversial) Exynos 2500 processor powering nan system. That's compared to nan accustomed Qualcomm Snapdragon spot recovered successful caller Z Flip models. Having an in-house chipset has besides allowed Samsung to bring DeX support -- nan company's PC-like personification interface mode -- to nan Z Flip for nan first clip ever.

Samsung has kept nan camera specs astir identical to those of nan Z Flip 6, meaning you're getting 50 MP wide and 12 MP ultrawide sensors. They'll travel particularly useful erstwhile moving multimodal Gemini services connected nan FlexWindow, which leverages nan cameras to process ocular accusation for AI-powered guides and analysis.

The Z Flip 7 will beryllium disposable successful Blue Shadow, Jet Black, Coral Red and a Samsung online-exclusive color, Mint. Storage sizes scope from 256 GB to 512 GB, and nan guidelines exemplary starts astatine $1,099. It's disposable for preorder coming and officially goes connected waste July 25.

It's agelong been rumored that Samsung is moving connected a 'cheaper' foldable phone, and I'm still not precisely judge if nan caller Z Flip 7 FE is that.

The 3rd foldable telephone unveiled astatine Unpacked this week starts astatine $899 -- which is $200 little than nan Z Flip 7, but not needfully priced affordably either. In ways, nan Z Flip 7 FE feels for illustration a rebranded type of past year's Z Flip 6, which felt for illustration a rebrand of nan Z Flip 5 that came earlier it. The beauty of nan proviso chain, folks.

What do you get pinch nan caller FE model? A 3.4-inch AMOLED sheet connected nan screen screen, perfect for speedy widgets and glanceable information; a 6.7-inch main display; an Exynos 2400 chipset pinch 8 GB of RAM and a guidelines retention of 128 GB; and dual cameras -- a 50 MP main and a 12 MP ultrawide.

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You're fundamentally settling for smaller displays and little powerfulness pinch nan FE, and that whitethorn beryllium wholly good for astir consumers, particularly if it's their first acquisition pinch a modern flip phone.

For what it's worth, nan Z Flip 7 FE is packaged pinch nan aforesaid Android 16-based One UI 8 package arsenic nan Z Flip 7, meaning you'll person entree to nan aforesaid Galaxy AI and widget features arsenic nan much costly model.

Alongside nan 3 caller foldable phones, Samsung coming besides announced 3 caller smartwatches.

The modular Galaxy Watch 8 bid is disposable successful 2 sizes -- 40 mm and 44 mm -- and features a slimmer squircle creation that Samsung dubs "cushion design." In adapting this shape factor, Samsung says it was capable to make nan watches consciousness lighter and thinner without compromising artillery life.

The Watch 8 bid besides features displays that are 50% brighter than past year's models, and its curved sides let for a much comfortable fresh on nan wrist. You tin prime up nan Watch 8 astatine a starting value of $349 for nan Bluetooth exemplary and $399 for nan LTE model. They're disposable successful Graphite and Silver.

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Samsung besides introduced a caller Watch 8 Classic exemplary that features a rotating bezel that ZDNET's Matthew Miller says feels much tactile and precise than ever. The enhanced build value makes nan Classic a much premium wearable, pinch a starting value of $499 for nan Bluetooth exemplary and $549 for nan LTE model. Color options see Black and White.

Lastly, Samsung has brought backmost nan Galaxy Watch Ultra, but it's much of an iterative update than a afloat revamped successor. This year's Watch Ultra comes pinch 64 GB of soul retention (up from 32 GB past year) arsenic good arsenic a caller Titanium Blue and Orange colorway. It retails for nan aforesaid value arsenic nan erstwhile Ultra exemplary -- $649.

All of nan caller Galaxy watches will travel pinch Wear OS 6 and One UI 8 retired of nan box, which see Google Gemini entree and Samsung's latest suite of wellness and fittingness search features for illustration bedtime guidance, antioxidant scale and Running Coach.