Last week, we focused connected the iPhone 18 Pro bid launch. This week we’ll person a look astatine what has been going connected with Galaxy phones. Let’s commencement with the foldables.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 – past year’s book-style foldable – is disposable for $1,350. This is $550 little than what its replacement costs, the Z Fold8 Ultra. Both are amazingly bladed (8.9mm) and airy (215g) for foldables, but the caller 1 brings a tangible summation successful artillery size – 600mAh implicit the 4,400mAh artillery of the Z Fold7. And it increases some wired (25W to 45W) and wireless (15W to 20W) charging. The different large upgrade is the chipset (Snapdragon 8 Elite to 8 Elite Gen 5) and the ultra-wide camera (12MP to 50MP). The 200MP main cameras and 10MP 3x telephoto cameras are fundamentally the same.
Of course, Samsung sees the Galaxy Z Fold8 arsenic the existent successor to the bid – hence the naming. The Z Fold8 is simply a wide foldable – its interior surface has a 4:3 facet ratio alternatively of the astir quadrate displays of the Z Fold7 and Z Fold8 Ultra. This besides affects the screen display, which is simply a 5.5” sheet with a close-to 3:2 facet ratio. The bigger Z Folds, meanwhile, person 6.5” 21:9 screen displays.
The Z Fold8 is adjacent lighter astatine 201g, though a spot thicker astatine 9.7mm. And it has a bigger artillery than the Z Fold7 astatine 4,800mAh with the faster charging of the Ultra. The Z Fold8 uses the aforesaid Elite Gen 5 chipset arsenic the Ultra, but it pays for its smaller size successful different ways. For starters, it lone has a 50MP main (with a smaller 1/1.56” sensor) and a 50MP ultra-wide camera. There’s nary dedicated telephoto, not adjacent a 200MP 1/1.3” sensor successful the main camera similar connected the Ultra. Also, the telephone measures 81.9mm wide erstwhile closed, compared to 72.8mm for the bigger folds (well, “taller” would beryllium much accurate). This makes it tricky for one-handed use.
And past there’s the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra – its sanction leaves small uncertainty that it’s the flagship of the series. We already covered its specs above, the lone question that remains is whether you privation the other size and are consenting to wage the other outgo for it.
Taking a interruption from Samsung for a moment, the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro is simply a $450 telephone that packs a batch of hardware. It has a ample 6.83” 144Hz OLED show (a crisp 1260p+ sheet astatine that), a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset and a 5,080mAh artillery with 50W charging. The cameras are absorbing – the 50MP main (1/1.56”) is joined by a 50MP 3.5x/80mm periscope and an 8MP ultra-wide. Most phones successful this terms people omit the telephoto.
Case successful point, the Galaxy A57. The basal exemplary costs the aforesaid arsenic the (4a) Pro, but it comes with a smaller 6.7” 120Hz OLED (1080p+), a somewhat slower Exynos 1680 chipset and a 5,000mAh artillery with 45W charging. As for its cameras, the 50MP main has the aforesaid size sensor (1/1.56”), but there’s lone an 8MP ultra-wide adjacent to it. The A57 does person amended h2o absorption (IP68 vs. IP65) and it volition get doubly arsenic galore OS updates – 6 vs. 3 (both phones launched with Android 16).
Looking astatine the A57 reminded america of the Galaxy S26 FE – it launched earlier this period and benignant of disappeared. What happened to it? Nothing happened – there’s nary discount and its MSRP is excessively high. Unless you’re consenting to walk $700 connected a telephone with lone 128GB storage, you’ll privation the $800 256GB one.
Except you’d beryllium amended disconnected with a Galaxy S26+ for $100 more. The S26+ has the amended 6.7” surface (1440p+ LTPO vs. 1080p+ LTPS), amended chipset (Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs. Exynos 2500) on with somewhat amended cameras and charging. We deliberation these differences are worthy the $100.
But if you don’t privation to walk extra, wherefore not walk less? The Galaxy S25 FE is simply a batch cheaper and it’s mostly the aforesaid phone, but it uses the adjacent older Exynos 2400. The lone occupation is that the 256GB mentation is implicit $100 pricier than the 128GB model. It’s inactive a batch cheaper than a 256GB S26 FE, though.
Earlier this month, TCL introduced the P80 series, which is the archetypal to diagnostic OLED-based NxtPaper displays. The TCL NxtPaper 70 Pro uses an older benignant LCD-based NxtPaper setup, but that is inactive much oculus extortion than astir displays person to offer. It’s a 6.9” IPS LCD (1080p+, 120Hz). The telephone is powered by the Dimensity 7300 and has expandable storage. It has a 5,200mAh artillery with 33W charging. The cameras see a 50MP main (1/1.56”) and an 8MP ultra-wide.
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