If Samsung isn’t using the made-up word “slimpossible”, we’ll coin it. The all-new Galaxy Z Fold7 matches the word, with an unfolded thickness like a USB-C port, and a folded thickness like any other phone.
When we first laid eyes on the latest Galaxy Fold, our brain became a haven for made-up words.
It wasn’t just impressive, it was “slimpressive”. It isn’t just impossibly thin, it was “slimpossibly thin”.
It was, well, you get the picture: the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is thin. Really thin. And it may well be the most interesting approach to slim tech we’ve seen this year.
That’s saying something, too, because Samsung has already had one dance with thin phones in 2025. The Galaxy S25 Edge was the first Samsung phone to sport a super slim design, measuring at 5.8mm thin, not much more than the 5.1mm of the world’s thinnest tablet, the 13 inch M4 iPad Pro.
But the Z Fold7 goes even thinner, as Samsung has built an even more impressive foldable for 2025.
Samsung’s 2025 foldables are here
Before getting ahead of ourselves, let’s talk about what’s on the way. It’s a new year, and mid-year we typically see Samsung replace its foldable phones with something new.
That’s exactly what we have this year, as the world says bye to the Fold 6 and Flip 6, and says a friendly hello to the seventh generation of Samsung foldable phones.
As expected, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is the new foldable phone-tablet hybrid, while the Z Flip 7 is the new foldable clamshell phone, but there’s also a newbie along for the ride.
A slimmer Galaxy Fold 7
The big news is with the Fold 7, another variation of Samsung’s foldable tablets that makes some really interesting changes.
For starters, it’s slightly wider and also much thinner, measuring 4.2mm thick when unfolded and only 8.9mm thick when folded close. Both of those are startlingly thin, with the 8.9mm closed thickness not far off from the 8.2mm of the Galaxy S25 Ultra or the 8.25mm of the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Closed, the Z Fold 7 is much slimmer than the 12.1mm thickness of its predecessor, the Z Fold 6, and unfolded, the tablet edge is pretty much the height of the USB-C port.
It is staggering. It basically means the Fold 7 offers little difference in thickness specs compared to any other phone, something foldables have always had to deal with since they’re often like smushing two phones together.
On the screen side of things, the exterior sees a 6.5 inch Full HD+ display offering 2520×1080, while the inside is a staggering 8 inches, providing QXGA+ and 2184×1968. It’s almost square, but much bigger than other foldable phones, returning the joy of an 8 inch tablet to the world.
They’ll start at 256GB storage and go all the way to 1TB, with each option arriving with no less than 12GB RAM (and the 1TB getting 16GB, too).
Samsung has also brought a combination of titanium, aluminium, and ceramic-strengthened glass to the Fold, with the former in the FlexHinge, the middle in the frame, and the class on the cover display. Lots of premium materials for a premium phone.
Inside, the same chip that graced the S25 Ultra is here, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite, optimised and tweaked with Samsung for some of the proprietary stuff under the hood, not to mention a long upgrade cycle.
It’ll also get one of the same cameras, as the 200 megapixel sensor on the S25 Ultra and S25 Edge graces yet another Samsung flagship: the Fold7.
It’s not the same stack; the 200 megapixel wide sits alongside a 12 megapixel ultra-wide and 10 megapixel 3X telephoto. There’s no closer zoom in this model like there is in the S25 Ultra.
And there’s also no support for the S-Pen, a change for the Galaxy Fold range. These have previously supported the Samsung stylus, but to make the Fold 7 slimmer, that technology isn’t here.
In short, if you want a phone with an S-Pen this year, you’ll need an S25 Ultra, and if you want a tablet, the Galaxy Tab is where you’ll probably want to look.
The Galaxy Flip 7 with a slightly bigger screen
Alternatively, if you want a phone that folds smaller, the Flip7 is here, providing an update to last year’s Flip6.
In the latest model, Samsung is opening up the cover screen to be much bigger, similar to what Motorola offered in the Razr 50 Ultra. Unlike the Moto, however, you’ll only get a choice of lockscreen widgets using Samsung’s “FlexWindow”, distinct to Motorola’s compact version of Android that loads on the tiny screen.
The change to the cover screen is an important detail, now making it a 4.1 inch outside display, but the inside has increased, as well. That has jumped from a 6.7 inch display to a 6.9 inch foldable, while the phone gets a little more juice courtesy of a Samsung Exynos chip, rather than Qualcomm inside.
Dimensions aren’t changing dramatically, but it will come in at 13.7mm thick when folded, shaving off a full millimetre from the 14.9mm thickness of last year’s Flip 6. A little smaller, it seems.
The battery has also been updated, boasting 4300mAh to work with, 300mAh more than the Flip6 and 600mAh more than the Flip5 before that.
No change to the cameras, though, with a 50 megapixel wide camera and a 12 megapixel ultra-wide. That’s more or less spot on with the Flip 6 a year before it.
And a lower priced Flip FE
Interestingly, the camera similarities aren’t the only thing Samsung has kept around from the Flip 6.
In fact, there’s one other Galaxy Flip model on the way, and it has a lot to do with the Flip 6.
Called the Galaxy Flip7 FE, the idea is largely to repackage what we’ve seen in the Flip6, but with a few changes and a slightly lower price point, similar to other Samsung FE models.
The Flip 7 FE is basically a Flip 6, so much that it includes the 6.7 inch main display and 3.4 inch cover display, complete with the same 14.9mm thickness. The main difference appears to be storage, which starts at 128GB, while the Flip7 starts at 256GB.
Galaxy AI and One UI 8
All three models will get Android 16 out of the box, making them the first Samsung models to get the very latest Android has to work with.
But they’ll also get a little more, as Samsung updates its overlay to One UI 8.
Focused more as a version of Android with AI in mind, Google’s Gemini Live can be spoken to directly from the cover screens, while Samsung’s “Now Bar” can show app activities in real-time, working with both Samsung-made and third party apps to understand the context of what you’re doing. Google’s circle to search is also here, as well, one of the first AI features for Samsung’s Galaxy range.
There is, of course, more AI customisation for wallpaper, widgets, and even emoji, but the AI working across app and operating system fulfils what Samsung says is a multimodal approach to AI experiences.
That includes some extra features for the Galaxy Fold, including a generative edit with side-by-side editing on the massive 8 inch display of the Fold 7.
You’ll also be able to deal with background sounds using an audio eraser tool, plus play with drawing and writing assist tools in a multi-window view on the big screen inside.
Hands-on with the 2025 Flip 7 and Fold7
AI is nice, but we want to simply play with these new tools, so play we did.
While the Flip 7 feels like a slightly slimmer improvement to the range, the Fold 7 is a stunner it seems almost impossible to exist.
Impossibly slim when unfolded and about the same thickness as the USB port it’ll charge from, it gives you an idea of the limits phone makers will hit provided they keep the USB charging port in.
Even after just a few minutes of hand-holding, the Fold 7 is such a beautiful piece of hardware unfolded, and delightful folded, too. That’s because for the first time, a foldable phone doesn’t feel like much of an obstacle, compared with the overly thick hinges the Fold range has seen on every model prior.
It’s just so lovely to hold and feel, and the blue colour it comes in, that’s lovely, too.
Australian pricing and availability
If any of this sways you, the price could be the very thing that stops you in your tracks.
On the less expensive side of things, the Galaxy Z Flip7 FE will start at $1499 in Australia for the 128GB model, while the Flip7 will start at $1799 for a 256GB model. It’s pretty clear Samsung is making the case for an upsell on the new model.
Meanwhile, the Z Fold 7 will start at $2899 for a 256GB model, before fetching $3099 for 512GB and $3549 for 1TB of foldable goodness.
Pre-sale across the range kicks in now, with official availability in Australia from August 1.
UPDATE: We’ve corrected a price error that originally went out from this end. The 512GB Fold 7 is $3099, not $3988. Apologies.
