Since the very first launch of the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The South-Korean tech giant is all geared up to launch Galaxy Fold 2 the successor to the last year’s model. Now keep this thing in mind the Samsung Galaxy Z flip which launched alongside the S20 series. Is completely in a different category. It has been rumored that the Galaxy Fold 2 will keep the same design as we saw on the Fold. It has been rumored that Samsung is focusing more on the display department of the Fold 2 this year. We are going to talk about more in-depth leaks of the Fold 2 in this article.

Galaxy Fold 2-Release date.

Now the rumor suggests the release date of Fold 2 to be around at the end of July or August 2020. Which clearly indicates that the release date will not be affected due to the current COVID-19 situation. Which is a good news considering that company like Apple is going to delay the launch date of the upcoming iPhone12. Ross Young, CEO of Display supply chain consultant also confirmed the August release date of Fold 2 in a tweet.

Foldable Flagship!

Like other current 2020 flagships, Samsung Fold 2 will be powered by Qualcomm snapdragon 865 coupled with either 8 GB or 12 GB of ram. XDA developer, Max Weinbach also tweeted that this year’s fold will come with snapdragon 865 chipset. Now this time Samsung is going to adopt 256 GB option for storage also as base variant. To keep the price down. As last years fold only came with a 512 GB option. And thankfully, this year’s Fold will also come with a MicroSD slot which is good news for Samsung fans as Samsung ditched the MicroSD slot from S10 onwards. It will be 5G ready too as usual because all the flagships this year are offering this standard.



Samsung Galaxy Fold
Source: mobilesyrup.com

Galaxy Fold 2-Display.

As I said earlier, the biggest upgrade on the Fold this year will be its “display”. Ross Young tweeted that the outer display will now measure in a 6.23 inch bigger in size. Which is a huge upgrade considering from the last year’s Fold the front display was only 4.6 inch with huge bezels. Which looked uglier. The inner display will be 7.59 inches longer with a 1440p QHD+ resolution. Now interestingly enough, the inner (main) display will have a refresh rate of 120 Hz as seen on S20 ultra. But unfortunately, the outer display will have a normal 60 Hz refresh rate. Both inner and outer displays will feature a hole-punch camera setup instead of in-screen. It will also feature an upgraded version of ultra-thin glass “UTG” as we saw on the Galaxy Z-flip. Now the main thing which Ross pointed out is that both inner and outer displays will feature an “LTPO” display technology. For those of you who are unaware of LTPO. Basically, LTPO simply means “variable refresh rate”. There is only one technology which smartphone companies are adopting “LTPS”. LTPO consumes less battery over LTPS about 15%-20%. It varies refresh rate from 1 Hz-120 Hz depending on app usage. While LTPS display only varies from about 60 Hz-120 Hz. This inclusion will give more bump over its competitors like the iPhone 12.




Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 concept image
Source: androidpolice.com

Galaxy Fold 2-Cameras.

Now the Samsung galaxy Fold 2 will also feature an upgraded cameras over last years Fold. Max Weinbach confirmed that the Fold 2 will feature a the same camera modules as found on the S20 plus. A 12 MP main shooter, 64 MP telephoto camera which will produce high quality zoom photos upto 3x (optical). A 12 MP ultra wide camera. And a time of flight TOF sensor for depth sensing. Now for the front camera Samsung always tends to use a 10 MP selfie shooter. So this time its not different it will feature a 10 MP punch hole camera on front. Unfortunately, we will not be able to see 108 MP camera found on S20 ultra which everyone hoped for.

S Pen Comeback!

Interestingly enough, Samsung this year will likely feature an embedded S-Pen on the Fold 2 which is kind of surprising. Since Samsung already use an S-Pen with their Note series. Max Weinbach claimed that the features of the S-Pen used on Galaxy Fold 2 will be the same as found on Samsung Galaxy Note 10. Like the use of Bluetooth remote for taking selfies and air gestures. If so this would be a plus point for many Note fans.

Galaxy Fold 2-Pricing.

It has been speculated that the expected price of Fold 2 will be less than that of first-generation Fold which was around 1890$. There will a cut in price as said by Ross Young around $1780 to 1980$, with 1880$ to 1895$ depending on the market. As Samsung will launch multiple models of Fold 2 this year such as Fold 2 lite which will be the youngest brother of Fold 2 lineup. There will be some sacrifices by Samsung on this model such as removing the “UTG” glass from its display. There will be only one variant which will be 4G ready and will come with a 256 GB storage option. It will cost around 1100$. Max Weinbach also rumored that Samsung will also launch a limited “Thom Browne” edition for Fold 2 with ceramic back and stainless steel costing around 3000$. Now Ross Young suggested in a tweet that the Galaxy Fold 2 will serve as the ramped-up version of the Galaxy Note 20 and will be called as “Note 20 ultra”. As Samsung this year will launch only two models of the Galaxy Note 20 this year. I’ll keep you updated if I get more updates regarding this device!