ETNews has published a small infographic
that shows the design of the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 and also looks at some of
the upcoming competition. The new Fold will have larger displays, both inside
and out. The internal screen will grow to 7.7” (up from 7.3”) and will
reportedly adopt the 120 Hz refresh rate of the S20 phones as well as the S Pen
stylus of the Note series. The stylus support isn’t certain, however, as rumors
of technical difficulties cropped up yesterday.
Besides being larger, the internal display
will use Ultra Thin Glass (aka UTG), coming from the same suppliers as the
glass for the Z Flip. Based on the schematic, the wide notch of the original
Fold may give way to more of a punch hole solution (though still quite wide).
The external display is set to grow as
well, from the smallish 4.6” of the original to 6.23” – that gets close to the
main (only) displays on non-foldable phones, though it will have a very tall
aspect ratio once again. Still, it will make the Galaxy Fold 2 much more usable
when closed. This screen will be covered by the regular kind of glass and will
have a 60 Hz refresh rate.
The bottom half of the infographic shows
predictions of where the foldable market is going. On the left are total number
of units sold (in millions). ET is reporting that Samsung is aiming to build
300,000 units a month with an expectation to sell 3 million units in a year (so
the majority of the 5 million total sales of foldable phones that analysts are
forecasting for this year).
On the right are predictions of what the
competition will do. The Huawei Mate X 2 will fold inwards and will also pack a
stylus, Motorola will introduce a 5G version of the Razr, Xiaomi is also
working on a clamshell-style folder (like the Razr and Z Flip). TCL is working on
both inward and outward folding devices, ZTE will focus on more affordable
foldables. Those are the predictions, anyway.
Samsung will make the Galaxy Fold 2
official on August 5 at the Unpacked event, alongside the Galaxy Note20. The
Galaxy Z Flip 5G will join them.
