2025
Disregard the fact that there’s a whole world of Chinese-made book-style foldables as thin and light as the Galaxy Z Fold 7 that Americans can’t buy, and Samsung’s latest phone-to-tablet foldable is what we’ve been waiting for. It only took Samsung six years to make its flagship foldable as svelte as a regular bar smartphone, but the Z Fold 7 delivers in all aspects. The only thing that holds it back is the $2,000 price tag, a $100 increase over last year’s Z Fold 6.
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It’s often difficult to see the march of progress year-over-year. It’s only over multiple generations of small improvements that you see how far along things have really come. The road to the Z Fold 7 has been in the making since 2019, when Samsung released the first-gen Fold and disaster struck immediately when people started peeling its pre-installed protective film and literally destroying the folding display. The original Fold was also too skinny to use as a regular phone when closed, the cover screen was too tiny, and the whole thing was too thick and heavy. The Z Fold 7 is a miracle in engineering compared to that first Fold—delivering everything that Samsung wanted to achieve with that pioneering foldable.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 delivers on the dream of a book-style foldable that's feels no different from a bar phone when closed, but it's not cheap. Pros Super thin and light
Super thin and light Wider cover screen feels more like a regular phone
Wider cover screen feels more like a regular phone Excellent triple-lens cameras
Excellent triple-lens cameras Fast and responsive performance
Fast and responsive performance Stunning blue color Cons Gets hot quickly in the sun
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