Samsung Galaxy Fold’s Full Specs and Price Revealed

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The Samsung Galaxy Fold will cost $1,800 without carrier subsidies and sport a 6,000-mAh battery, two cameras, and next-generation Exynos or Snapdragon processors.

At least that’s what a new 74-page report on the future of foldable phones by Korean analysts CCS-CIMB Research unearthed by Dutch tech blog Lets Go Digital claims.

The report is extremely detailed when it comes to Samsung’s flexible phone — which may be called Galaxy Fold. The research firm claims the device will have a battery divided in two packs — one per blade — with a total capacity of 5,000 to 6,000 mAh. That’s not surprising: the internal 7.3-inch 2152 x 1536-pixel foldable screen and the front cover display are going to suck a lot of power even while they are OLED.

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The report — which claims that all the information has been verified with the component suppliers listed below — also says it will have two cameras on the back with 12 megapixel sensors and a 8 megapixel on the cover.

Finally, the Korean firm claims that the Galaxy Fold will be powered by an Exynos 9820 CPU in Korea and the Snapdragon 8150 in the US.

As this bill of materials table shows, the Samsung foldable phone will cost almost 70% more to make than the Galaxy S9+ at a whopping $636.70. The firm claims that it will carry a 65% markup and sell for a whopping $1,800 — $30 more than the previously rumored price.

The Galaxy Fold is expected to be announced next February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Lab_Golom on December 14th, 2018 at 22:28 UTC »

I rather just fold my stack of 18 hundred dollar bills.

Emperor-Commodus on December 14th, 2018 at 20:36 UTC »

At least that’s what a new 74-page report on the future of foldable phones by Korean analysts CCS-CIMB Research unearthed by Dutch tech blog Lets Go Digital claims.

Oh so you don't actually know, you're just guessing.

They just took the BOM cost to Samsung to build the phone and multiplied it by the profit margin of the S9+. They have no real proof.

Samsung could sell the phone for $1000 if they wanted to and just take a smaller profit margin. They could sell it at $3000. We don't know.

deebodeezo on December 14th, 2018 at 18:37 UTC »

If you look back at the history of consumer electronics, almost every revolutionary product started out at prices beyond the reach of the average person. The first Apple Macintosh sold for what would be $6000 today.

Now, this phone WILL sell to a select group of people, but that’s not the point. The whole idea is to introduce this concept and see if it works. If it takes off, you’ll see a ton of these on the market by nearly every company and the price will come way down to affordable levels. So don’t judge it as a finished product, look at it as the first iteration of a brand new category of device. Personally I’m extremely excited for what the future holds.