Smartphones arguably get better with every iteration. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series is undoubtedly one of the best examples. What’s not changed makes the successors merely incremental upgrades. According to the latest leak coming straight from the mouth of tipster Ice Universe, the primary camera onboard next year’s Galaxy Z Fold6 won’t see any changes compared to what we have now.
The tipster is sure about the development which means if true, we will end up with almost the same camera tech coming from Z Fold4 to Z Fold5 and the next year’s Z Fold6. It means we could see the same 50MP Samsung GN3 sensor (1.0-micron pixel size and 1/1.56” sensor size) that drives the primary camera on Z Fold5 and Z Fold4.
Next-gen Samsung Galaxy foldable will be thinner
In another news coming from the South Korean publication The Elec (again, a trusted and credible source), the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 is likely to be thinner than the Fold5. At present, Z Fold5 stands at 6.1mm in thickness when unfolded and 13.4mm when folded. To put things into context, Galaxy Z Fold4 stood at 6.3mm when unfolded and 15.8mm when folded.
Rumor has it that Samsung Electronics is trying to get next year’s Z Fold6 thinner than Z Fold5. It will compete for head-on with Huawei Mate X5 which is at 11.1mm when folded. The Xiaomi Mix Fold 3, on the other hand, stands at 10.9mm giving the scope of work that Samsung is undertaking when it comes to making its foldable thinner than before.
The report hints at how Samsung will reverse engineer Huawei’s Mate X5 to get a profile on how the Chinese manufacturer was able to achieve such a thinner profile while accommodating a larger battery onboard. If that’s true as well, we can expect next year’s Galaxy Z Fold6 to have both a thinner profile and a larger battery which currently stands at 4,400mAh.
For context, the OnePlus Open has a thickness of 11.7mm (folded) housing a ginormous 5,060mAh battery under the hood. The OnePlus Open was announced on October 19th giving the Chinese maker a debut into the foldable category which has become saturated with players running from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Motorola, and OnePlus among others.
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