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Samsung to Release Foldable Phone with Unexpected Price


Sat 11 Jan 2020 | 11:05 AM
Ahmed Yasser

Samsung will launch a new foldable phone on Feb. 11 in San Francisco. Samsung is moving away from the Galaxy Fold design, whose 7.3-inch screen bends in half to open like a book.

According to a report of Samsung Electronics, the company is indeed going to forgo the Galaxy S11 branding to call its next flagship, instead, the Galaxy S20. This phone will be aimed at women, will include a 5G variant as well as new features like an ultra-thin display that’s more scratch-resistant than that of its predecessor.

 

 

 

Foldable Phone

The new version features a 7.3-inch dynamic AMOLED foldable display, and a secondary 4.6-inch Super AMOLED cover display. It is powered by a Snapdragon 855 SoC coupled with Adreno 640 GPU for graphics, 12GB RAM, and 512GB storage. The handset runs on Android 9.0 Pie with custom One UI skin out of the box.

Samsung Galaxy Fold features a 12MP dual-pixel primary rear camera with LED flash, a 12MP telephoto lens, a 16MP ultra-wide-angle sensor. On the front, there is a 10MP primary snapper and an 8MP secondary shooter for selfies and video chats. Additionally, the handset also packs a 10MP cover camera.

Noteworthy, Samsung Electronic’s President Young Sohn, revealed that 1 million Galaxy Fold units have been sold so far. Considering the premium $1980 price and initial issues with the design, this is quite a feat from Samsung.

The executive in a statement said, I think that the point is, we’re selling a million of these products. There are a million people that want to use this product at $2,000.

According to the South Korean giant firm aims to sell six million foldable phones in 2020, where it is expected to launch the Galaxy Fold successor with a clamshell design on February 18th.