Samsung Galaxy Fold expected to launch in India on May 7th


Samsung announced its foldable smartphone Galaxy Fold in February this year and the company started the pre-orders of the smartphone in the US on April 15th. It received a great response and Samsung closed the pre-orders for now. Today, new reports have emerged suggesting that Samsung is all set to bring the Galaxy Fold smartphone in India next month.

According to new reports, Samsung will launch the Galaxy Fold smartphone in May alongside the Galaxy A80 smartphone. At the launch of Galaxy Fold, DJ Koh, President, and CEO of Samsung confirmed that Samsung Galaxy Fold will launch in India and the launch of Samsung Galaxy A80 in India in was recently confirmed by Samsung India CMO and SVP, Ranjivjit Singh.

To recall, Samsung Galaxy Fold sports a 7.3-inch QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED 4.2:3 aspect ratio Infinity Flex Display, which folds into a compact device with a 4.6-inch HD+ Super AMOLED 21:9 aspect ratio cover display. It is powered by the Snapdragon 855 SoC and coupled with 12GB of RAM. In addition to triple rear cameras and dual front cameras, similar to the S10+, it also has a 10-megapixel camera for the front cover display. It has two batteries for a total of 4,380mAh battery and comes with support for wired and wireless fast charging.

Samsung Galaxy Fold specifications

  • 7.3-inch QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED 4.2:3 aspect ratio main display, 4.6-inch HD+ Super AMOLED 21:9 aspect ratio cover display
  • Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 7nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 640 GPU
  • 12GB LPDDR4x RAM, 512GB storage (UFS 2.1)
  • Android 9.0 (Pie)
  • 12MP Dual Pixel rear camera with LED Flash, f/2.4-f/1.5 variable  aperture, OIS, 12MP Telephoto lens with 45° FoV, f/2.4 aperture, 16MP 123° Ultra Wide sensor with f/2.2 aperture with 0.5X/2X optical zoom, up to 10X digital zoom
  • 10MP Dual Pixel front-facing camera with 80° wide-angle lens, f/1.9 aperture, secondary 8MP depth sensor with f/2.2 aperture, 90° FoV
  • 10MP cover camera with f/2.2 aperture
  • Stereo speakers tuned by AKG, Dolby Atmos
  • Side-mounted Fingerprint Sensor
  • 5G Sub6 / mmWave (28G, 39G), 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ax (2.4/5GHz), VHT80 4×4 MIMO, Bluetooth 5, GPS with GLONASS, USB 3.1, NFC, MST
  • 4,380mAh battery with fast Charging both on wired and wireless (WPC and PMA) charging

The Samsung Galaxy Fold comes in Space Silver, Cosmos Black, Martian Green, and Astro Blue colors, and is priced at US$ 1,980 (Rs. 1,40,760 approx.) for the 5G version, while 4G version will also be available.

Update: Another report suggests that the phone will launch in India on May 7th.

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Author: Manoj Nagendra

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