The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 unveiled final week is 5.6mm thick when unfolded and 12.1mm thick within the folded state, making it look pale compared to some Chinese language rivals. Nonetheless, Samsung’s subsequent foldable may very well be considerably slimmer since KED International reviews that TM Roh, the President and Head of Samsung’s MX crew, desires the following Galaxy foldable smartphones to be slimmer and requested the crew to develop an “extra slim foldable smartphone.”
Citing business sources, the publication claims that Roh requested Samsung’s engineers to develop a foldable that’s as skinny because the Galaxy S24 in its folded state. The S24 is 7.6mm skinny, whereas the S24+ and S24 Extremely are 7.7mm and eight.6mm thick, respectively.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6
Even when Samsung manages to match the S24 Extremely’s thickness, its subsequent foldable can be 3.5mm slimmer than the Fold6 when folded, which is 1.3mm thinner than final yr’s Fold5. The supply additionally claims that the MX crew is engaged on bringing the following foldable’s weight beneath 239g – that is how heavy the Fold6 is.
Samsung can be mentioned to unveil a 10mm thick Galaxy Z Fold6 Slim by the top of 2024, with the following fashions being thinner. It would pack an 8″ folding screen, which would be larger than the Fold6’s folding display measuring 7.6″.
Along with growing a slimmer folding smartphone, Samsung is reportedly engaged on creating foldable-specific content material and collaborating with Google and different Android system-based app builders for foldable-specific apps.
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