Samsung is working hard on the next Z Galaxy Flip to match the promise and potential of the new flagship Galaxy S24 family.
The details come from GalaxyClub, which picks out the larger battery capacities of the Galaxy Z Flip 6 over last year’s Z Flip 5. The Flip is expected to increase the overall capacity by around eight per cent, with a 1097 mAh and 2790 mAh battery packed into the flip phone.
Like many folding phones, the Z Flip 6 has two distinct cells packaged on either side of the crease to help better distribute the handset’s weight. This is an easier choice to make than a book-style foldable as the nature of the Flip phone wants to have more weight on the base; the smaller battery on top leaves a natural gap for the camera. That’s less the case with the Z Fold series, where equally sized batteries on either side is a higher priority.
One thing that this increased battery size will deliver is parity with the base Galaxy S model. Last year, the S23 had 500 mAh more rated capacity than the Z Flip 5. This year, the S24 ships with a 3880 mAh rated battery compared to the discussed capacity of 3887 mAh for the Flip 7—effectively, the two handsets will ship with similarly specced batteries.
That will allow the Z Flip 6 to continue evolving into a “standard” phone that happens to fold in half as a bonus rather than demonstrating the technology as a priority and the features as secondary.
Foldable phones will command a price premium for some time to come—even with Samsung investigating a foldable FE-based phone—but ensuring the specifications of everything else match regular phones will go a long way to making them acceptable workhorses rather than fragile fashion pieces.
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