Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5: All the things there may be to know to this point

Samsung has simply revealed its newest foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5. Whereas it’s very a lot an incremental replace, the clamshell foldable boasts just a few key new options that permit it to higher compete with the likes of the Motorola Razr 40 Extremely and Oppo Discover N2 Flip.

Sporting a brand new massive exterior show with loads of room for apps and widgets, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy, a brand new hinge mechanism that gives a gapless fold and an all-around thinner design, Samsung Z Flip 5 appears like a tempting choice for these on the hunt for a foldable in 2023.

Right here’s all the things it’s essential to know concerning the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, from launch date and pricing to the important thing new options of the clamshell foldable. 

When will the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 be launched?

As confirmed by Samsung, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 shall be launched on 11 August 2023, although pre-orders are already reside for these eager to get their palms on the brand new foldable.

How a lot will the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 price?

This one may be a bit of disappointing because the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 prices greater than its older sibling, coming in at £1,049 – a rise of £50 that brings it in keeping with Motorola’s competing Razr 40 Extremely. 

To try to compensate for the upper beginning price ticket, Samsung has achieved away with the 128GB mannequin, with the Z Flip 5 coming with both 256- or 512GB of UFO 4.0 storage. The Z Flip 4 with 256GB of storage got here in at £1,059, so technically, there’s a £10 low cost. It simply sucks that there’s no sub-£1000 variant for those who don’t want fairly a lot storage. 

As traditional, Samsung is providing a pre-order deal for eager followers that gives an improve to the 512GB mannequin at no further price. Nevertheless, it’ll additionally possible be obtainable to pre-order from carriers like EE and O2 and websites like Carphone Warehouse. 

What’s new with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5?

The massive standout new function of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is, in fact, the massive exterior show. Gone is the small slender 1.9-inch show, changed by a bigger panel that’s formed a bit like an upside-down folder, taking over a lot of the area on the outside panel.

Extra particularly, it’s a 3.4-inch exterior show, making it barely smaller than the three.6-inch panel from the Razr 40 Extremely, and it doesn’t embed the dual cameras inside the show both. Nonetheless, small design variations apart, the outside show capabilities in the identical manner. 

It lets you not solely learn and reply to messages and WhatsApps, however Samsung has included a bunch of widgets designed for the exterior show, from calendar to clock and extra. It additionally lets you take selfies utilizing the rear cameras, with a fairly large preview permitting you to get your pose excellent. It’s nothing we haven’t seen earlier than, however it’s good to see it right here. 

Elsewhere, enhancements to the teardrop hinge mechanism permit the Z Flip 5 to fold utterly flat like different clamshell foldables, however these hoping for a knock-on enchancment to the crease shall be disenchanted. The primary 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X 120Hz show appears to be like near-identical to its predecessor. 

It’s thinner, nonetheless, measuring 6.9mm thick when unfolded and 15.1mm thick when folded – a discount of 2mm. 

It appears to be like just like the rumoured mud resistance didn’t make the reduce both, with the Z Flip 5 providing the identical IPX8 water resistance as its predecessor. It’s nonetheless among the many finest water resistance round for foldables, however a little bit of mud may nonetheless deliver all of it falling down. 

Twin 12MP snappers have made a return for this 12 months’s mannequin, although Samsung claims that an improved important sensor reduces the quantity of lens flare current in photographs. That’s flanked by an equivalent 10MP selfie snapper embedded inside that interior show.

It additionally takes benefit of Samsung’s partnership with Qualcomm, sporting the identical unique Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy because the flagship S23 sequence, boasting a barely increased clocked CPU and an extra GPU core for even higher efficiency than most different flagships available on the market. That’s paired with 8GB of RAM and, as famous earlier, both 256- or 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage. 

Elsewhere, it’s just about enterprise as traditional with the Z Flip 5; it runs Android 13 with OneUI 5.1, battery life stays per an equivalent 3,700mAh battery and, relatively annoyingly, it’s nonetheless capped at that relatively sluggish 25W charging with no charger included within the field.