Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 leaks just revealed key details

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With the fate of the Milky way Notation 21 still upward in the air, Samsung'due south next big flagship looks to be the Galaxy Z Fold 3, and it is patently on track for a release in the next few months.

Co-ordinate to SamMobile'south sources, Samsung has at present begun work on the firmware for the foldable. It volition apparently be based on I UI 3.5, Samsung's latest custom peel for Android 11.

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Elsewhere, Korean publication The Elec has got agree of a fundamental item of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold three: battery capacity. According to the site's sources, the foldable will have a slightly lower capacity than its predecessor, dropping from 4,500mAh to iv,380mAh, over again split across two cells on either side of the fold.

The drop of 120mAh (half the total capacity of the 41mm Galaxy Picket iii) shouldn't have a serious affect on the device's stamina, given information technology only equals a 3% reduction overall, only it is interesting to speculate what has forced the modify. 1 possibility, for instance, is that Samsung has taken a pocket-size hitting on battery capacity in gild to give space for the rumored Southward Pen to dock inside the phone, just equally its done in the by with the Milky way Note.

If the rumors are truthful and Samsung really is killing off the Milky way Annotation this year, and so it would brand sense for the S Pen to seek a more permanent home.

While a handful of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 rumors are start to emerge, at that place are plenty of areas of contention, with leakers unable to decide even on the size of screens involved. We've heard the external brandish could be a dinky 4 inches, or a significantly larger 6.23 inches, which is quite a large range. Information technology is, however, assumed that the device will use the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC, and boast a minimum of 256GB storage like its predecessor, which didn't take room for a microSD menu slot.

The consensus is that nosotros're looking at a handset that'll sally in the second half of the year, and The Elec floats a possible July reveal, potentially alongside Samsung'south other new foldable, the Galaxy Z Flip three. Neither handset is expected to come cheap, and y'all would imagine that they will at the very least match their predecessors. That ways at least $1,399 for the Galaxy Z Flip 3, and $1,799 for the Galaxy Z Fold 3.

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