The Galaxy Z Fold 7 must bring Samsung back to the front of the foldable screen smartphones. Availability, price, new features, technical characteristics, here is everything you need to know about this high -end device.
The Galaxy Z Fold is the foldable smartphone in the number 1 book format on the market and therefore the release of a new model is always carefully scrutinized. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 will resume the promise of its predecessors by offering a very large main screen, which the user can bend to facilitate storage or use with a hand.
Without real competition for years, Samsung must make an accelerator in terms of innovation, because other manufacturers now design very high -quality similar mobiles, especially at Google, OnePlus, Honor and Oppo. We also mention a first foldable iPhone to come from 2026 on the side of Apple. What innovations therefore brings this Galaxy Z Fold 7? Discover with us everything you need to know about it.
When is the Galaxy Z Fold 7?
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 will be presented during a Galaxy Unpacked event at the same time as the Galaxy Z Flip 7, and probably that Galaxy Watch connected watches and Galaxy Buds wireless headphones for accessories. Samsung announced the date of July 9, 2025 for the holding of this conference.
Generally, the brand opens pre -orders in the wake of the presentation and smartphones are made available two weeks later, which would lead us to an exit for July 23, 2025, to be confirmed.
How much does the Galaxy Z Fold 7 cost?
The price is often the information that reaches us last when it is a new smartphone. Since Samsung has already increased the prices of his Z Fold 6 compared to those of Z Fold 5, we can hope that the prices will stabilize this year. Here are those who were practiced last year:
- 256 GB of storage: 1,999 euros
- 512 GB of storage: 2,119 euros
- 1 TB of storage: 2,359 euros
Some analysts fear that the Galaxy S26 will be more expensive than the Galaxy S25 because of the increase in production costs. The Z Fold 7 could therefore also be affected by such a measure, even if it is difficult to imagine the manufacturer crossing the symbolic threshold of the 2,000 euros for the basic model with the least storage.
A Galaxy Z Fold 7 Ultra in preparation?
Samsung has almost confirmed the existence of a Galaxy Z Fold 7 Ultra. “For years, Samsung has listened to users who are demanding larger screens, better cameras and new ways to connect and create. The demand is clear: an ultra experience that goes beyond a simple list of improved features in a more compact and more portable format”said the company by evoking its next generation of foldable.
The formulas used suggest that this ultra Galaxy Z Fold 7 will be an even more premium model than the classic. But we do not completely deviate from the idea that the Z Fold 7 Ultra is the real successor of the Z Fold 6, and that the Normal Z Fold 7 becomes in fact an entry -level device, cheaper, but at the cost of some technical concessions (such as compatibility with S Pen?).
A Galaxy Z Fold 7 finer?
Design news is increasingly rare on this range, Samsung having found a formula that suits it and the product having reached a certain maturity. But the manufacturer must still justify the release of a new model with improvements here and there. Right now, the brands have launched in an overbidding to finesse. Each millimeter less than the previous generation or a competitor is presented as a victory and as a sales argument by the manufacturers.
Samsung is no exception and should try to reduce the thickness of his Z Fold 7 so as not to appear to be dropped in the face of what Honor and OnePlus offer in particular. “Samsung engineers and designers refine each generation of the Galaxy Z series to make it finer, lighter and more resistant than the previous one”communicated the company. Referring to the Galaxy Z Fold 7, she adds that “The new Galaxy Z series is the finest, lightest and most advanced smartphones to date”.
According to the last leaks, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 would have a thickness of 3.9 mm at the finest point and 4.5 mm at the thickest point when unfolded. When it is folded, it would measure 8.9 mm. It’s good, but it would not be the best of the market on this aspect. A prototype with a thickness of only 8.2 mm would have been developed, but it should not be the final device, probably for a question of production costs.
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 should be as lighter than the Z Fold 6, while being larger. A titanium rear panel could help lighten the device without compromising its resistance. For the ultra model only? The hinge is an essential component of foldable mobiles and we necessarily expect improvements at this level. The Z Fold 7 would benefit from a news, whose structural integrity would be reinforced for a better sustainability in the long term. It could also integrate more effective dust brushes to prevent dust and debris from rushing into the smartphone. The screen folds of the screen would also be less visible.
An even larger foldable screen?
Several sources agree that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will have larger display areas. The foldable internal screen would reach 8 inch (or even 8.2 inches according to onleaks), a good increase compared to the 7.6 inches of the Z Fold 6. The external screen, used when you do not need the main one, would rise from 6.3 to 6.5 inches. We should expect to find the LTPO AMOLED 2X technology, as well as a variable refresh frequency up to 120 Hz. Samsung always tries to improve the brightness of the display from one generation to another, we can therefore hope that this is also the case this year.
What chip for the Galaxy Z Fold 7?
Each year, doubt settles when Samsung is about to launch a new premium smartphone. Will the manufacturer integrate a Qualcomm snapdragon chip, or an exynos house chip? This choice is essential. For Samsung, opting for an Exynos SOC is cheaper in terms of production costs. But it is of public notoriety that the Snapdragon offers better performance. Prefer a chip that is not the best on a device as expensive as the Z Fold 7 would inevitably make consumers cringe.
Do not panic, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 should well take on a Snapdragon 8 Elite, not an exynos 2500, which had not already been retained for the Galaxy S25. A benchmark made under geekbench tells us that the mobile will be equipped with a personalized and overcloke version of the famous chip, whose CPU will have two Osyon cores clocked at 4.47 GHz and six 6 others at 3.5 GHz. The GPU part is entrusted to the Adreno 830 and we will have 12 GB of RAM on this model, enough to effectively run the Galaxy AI features.
No changes for battery and recharge?
We are used to it, Samsung has a hard time innovating when it comes to battery and recharge. We are waiting for an accumulator with A capacity of 4,400 mAhwhich would not evolve, therefore. We can still hope for a slight gain in autonomy thanks to various optimizations and a controlled energy consumption of the Snapdragon 8 Elite, but we should not expect fabulous progress on this ground.
The wired recharging would remain limited to 25 W, and that wirelessly at 15 W. It is below what we observe on Chinese products. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 should be compatible with the Qi 2 standard, but it will not really take advantage of it, deprived of a native support for magnetism.
A 200 MP photo sensor?
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 should recover the main photo sensor 200 MP from the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition (SE) released last year exclusively in South Korea and China, that is a good increase in definition compared to the 50 MP of the Grand Angle of the Z Fold 6. This allows you to capture very high quality photos to crop or edit the image more effectively, but above all to improve the results of pixels. Samsung could simply integrate the 200 MP module already present on the very efficient Galaxy S25.
For the rest, the photo configuration should not move, with an ultra-angle of 12 Mp, a 10 MP telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom, an external selfie camera of 10 MP and a second front, internal and under the screen, of 4 MP. The latter is anecdotal so it offers poor quality in photo and video. Samsung does not yet master this optical technology under the screen, and it is not the Z Fold 7 that will change the situation.
Delivered on Android 16
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 will be Samsung’s first smartphone (with the Z Flip 7, whose output is concomitant) to be natively propelled by One UI 8, the version of the brand of the brand based on Android 16. This update will be rather minor, after a one UI 7 which has reshuffled the cards with a brand new interface and a big work done on the animations. One UI 8 will above all improve the formula introduced by One UI 7 and provide optimizations. Some new features are of course planned, such as the extension of virtual RAM, better management of alarm groups, or a file filtering option by application in the my file manager.
Samsung guarantees Seven years of updates of Android and safety patches For its high -end smartphones. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 will therefore benefit from long -term software monitoring, even if we know that after a few years of existence, Samsung tends to take time to deploy updates on its devices.
What future for S Pen?
To reduce the thickness of his smartphone, Samsung may have been forced to Remove the scanner integrated on the screen. This component is used to read the data related to S PEN and is (so far) essential for the proper functioning of the stylus. If this withdrawal of the scan is confirmed, two scenarios are emerging.
The first is the incompatibility of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 with the S Pen. Samsung has already made the decision to delete Bluetooth support for the Styule of the Galaxy S25 Ultra, there too to gain space and make the mobile thinner. The manufacturer has proven that he was ready to make sacrifices on this functionality to improve the design of his devices. The other hypothesis is that the manufacturer has managed to develop new data reading technology entered by S PEN, more discreet, even assimilated to the screen.
