Samsung’s upcoming foldable lineup may not have a mystery third phone after all
NowSamsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultraand its siblings are in the company’s rearview mirror, attention is beginning to turn to the follow-ups to theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold3andGalaxy Z Flip3. According to a new report, a third mystery entry may join those two upcoming foldable phones.
New information published byGalaxy Clubrefer to three new products with the codenames B4, Q4, and N4. We’d expect the first two to be the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 and Galaxy Z Flip4, or whatever Samsung names those phones, as the predecessors were called B3 and Q3. We haven’t seen any handsets with the codename N before, so an N4 may be a new entry to the company’s foldable plans.
Little is known about the Galaxy N4 phone, but Galaxy Club did hear that this handset may be manufactured on a smaller scale than both the Galaxy Z Fold4 or Galaxy Z Flip4. That makes sense if it is an experimental project for Samsung, and it matches what the company did with the original Galaxy Z Fold in 2019. We don’t yet know how this third foldable entry will differ from the book-like design of the Fold series or the clamshell of the Z Flip family.
At CES 2022, Samsung showed avariety of concept deviceswith the names S and G. We may see Samsung adopt one of these ideas for this third series, or it could be an entirely new idea altogether. If Samsung adapts one of these existing prototypes, it may mean we see a foldable phone with three screens, or perhaps a rollable alternative.
On the topic of Samsung’s upcoming foldables, a new rumor suggests both the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 will use a new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1+ processor (viaSamMobile). The leak suggests this chipset will be fabricated on TSCM’s 4nm processor, which will make it more power-efficient than the existing Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The information comes from prolific leakerIce Universewho says they are 100% sure this is happening.
We don’t yet know when Samsung will unveil its next series of foldable phones, but we currently expect August to be the next big Unpacked event. In 2021, Samsung used that month to reveal the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Galaxy Z Flip3, so we’d expect a similar situation in 2022 for its next series of devices.
UPDATE: 2022/03/25 06:05 EST BY JAMES PECKHAM
One source doesn’t believe it will happen
Ross Young, CEO of DSCC (Display Supply Chain Consultants) and a regular smartphone commentator, has said he doesn’t believe a third foldable device will launch this year. Young was commenting around a separate rumor of a third foldable device that referred to it with a codename of Galaxy Diamond. Young has confirmed that Project Diamond is the codename for 2023’s Samsung Galaxy S23, but he also says it “doesn’t look like a 3rd foldable device this year.” While this doesn’t comment specifically on the rumor from Galaxy Club, it may be a clear sign this won’t happen later in 2022.
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