Samsung galaxy fold: Everything you need to know

Ovi Rahman
5 min readApr 18, 2019

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Galaxy Fold has been Creating a Sheer Buzz Into the mind of tech-savvy smartphone users from all over the world. It is one of its kind and the first-ever folding smartphone manufactured from this company. It draws huge attention from all the potential buyers and tech-interested Fellows. Galaxy fold has a fair share of reasons to be capturing everyone’s attention. This is a lavish phone with premium and outstanding features ….

In this article, you will know everything about Samsung galaxy fold.

A whole new Experience

Galaxy fold is the beginning of a new era of the smartphone experience. The Galaxy Fold is made up of two screens and a magic hinge. The Samsung Galaxy Fold has two batteries inside, one on each side of the device, to get around the problem of having to have a folding battery. The battery is rated at 4,380mAh, and works together like our brain. Galaxy Fold’s battery doesn’t fold. Samsung has made it clear that the Galaxy Fold runs on Android Pie with Samsung’s new One UI interface on top.

Samsung galaxy fold is designed for ultimate multi-tasker it as can perform three active apps simultaneously, and on the main display you can do whatever you want with your galaxy fold taking the advantages of its multi-active window, and of course, without losing a beat…

Samsung has not forgotten to amaze its potential users with a feature of app continuity, that means, it lets users make an intuitive and seamless transition between the cover and main displays with showing where the apps were left off last time.

Performance

Samsung galaxy fold took the bar so high when it came to a matter of performance. It works so fast and it’s one of the strongest smartphones ever to perform multiple tasks at the same time. Thanks to its grand design and ambitious specification which made it possible to delivers premium performance. To make sure everything runs smoothly, Samsung equipped galaxy fold with 12GB of RAM with PC-like performance.

Galaxy fold is specially and perfectly designed for entertainment and vice versa. The immersive visuals on the Dynamic AMOLED display and crisp, clear sound by AKG with the stereo speakers that come with a great shape and color makes it outstanding and elegant. You can delve into the world entertainment with no hassle and a rich feature, allowing it to operate multi-window at the same time…

RELEASE DATE AND PRICE

Samsung has declared the price of the phone clearing all the rumors while Unveiling of its existence recently during the event of galaxy unpacked 2019. Samsung has set its price a whopping $1980 and in Europe, it will cost €2,000. UK and Australian prices were not announced, but the US price converts to about £1,500 or AU$2,800…The price is staggering since this is a premium device. This is undoubtedly the more expensive phone than almost every other smartphone currently being sold in the market. Galaxy Fold will go on sale in the US on April 26 and on May 3 in Europe.

SAMSUNG GALAXY FOLD CAMERAS

Samsung has placed six cameras around the Galaxy Fold: three in the back, another two on the inside above the 7.3-inch AMOLED display and a single selfie camera on the front of the device.

Here are the Galaxy Fold camera specs in full…

Cover camera

10MP Selfie Camera, F2.2

Rear triple camera

16MP Ultra Wide Camera, F2.2

12MP Wide-angle Camera Dual Pixel AF, OIS, F1.5/F2.4

12MP Telephoto Camera, PDAF, OIS, F2.4, 2X optical zoom

Front dual camera

10MP Selfie Camera, F2.2

8MP RGB Depth Camera, F1.9

The Galaxy Fold also allows you to use other apps during a video call.

Galaxy Fold specs we know so far

There’s 512GB of built-in storage, and there’s no MicroSD slot to add extra storage. The specs of galaxy fold below-

SAMSUNG GALAXY FOLD SPECS

Display size, resolution

4.6-inch Super AMOLED; 7.3-inch QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED

Mobile software

Android 9.0 with Samsung One UI

Camera

16-megapixel (ultra wide-angle), 12-megapixel (wide-angle), 12-megapixel (telephoto)

Front-facing camera

Two 10-megapixel, 8-megapixel 3D depth

Processor

Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Storage

512GB

RAM

12GB

Expandable storage

None

Battery

4,380

Fingerprint sensor

The right side of the phone

Special features

Foldable display, wireless charging, fast charging

Price off-contract (USD)

$1,980

Is $1980 Galaxy Fold worth it?

Samsung galaxy fold is a premium device with its premium features, and obviously, it’s not for everyone. It’s a pretty luxurious phone. The staggering price tag of this phone has already backed up that claim. Galaxy fold is a result of years of research and an ambitious goal to make a new kind of phone among all the smartphones out there …

Nothing comes perfectly at the first attempt, especially in tech. It gets improved gradually… So, all the potential buyer might be a victim of this phone giving money to its future R&D …. The over-hyped crowd, unnecessary gimmick might lose its charm right after being released …

Samsung has a great intention and put immensely great effort into making this phone come into existence .. we must appreciate their effort, but we must not fall prey of their experiment of a new kind of foldable phone, given that the price of this phone is so high …

So, you must wait and see where the wave is about going, and act upon your best situation to make a decision about whether to buy this Samsung galaxy fold or not ….

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