Galaxy Fold starts pre-sales announced; Shipping starts in May

O smartphone collapsible from Samsung, Galaxy fold, had its pre-sale start date announced by the company in several countries. Orders can be placed from April 26 to 15 countries in Europe, the United States and South Korea. Shipments start from May 3rd.

Os Gadgets foldables took the spotlight this year, and the Samsung came out ahead of many other competitors by showing some of its new Galaxy fold at the event that took place in San Francisco. The event was dedicated to launch of the Galaxy S10 family, but still the smartphone The company's folding device made its appearance and garnered due attention.

cutting-edge specifications

the screen of the new smartphone it is called Infinity Flex, a combination of its infinite screens with the folding feature that makes it stand out. With the screen closed, it has a size of 4.6 inches, with it open, this size increases to 7.3 inches, becoming a tablet. Still, it was produced to be a comfortable device to be handled even with just one hand.

We already have a processor inside. Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, or
Exynos 9820, in some regions, and 12GB of RAM memory to make it a powerful device to the fullest. O Galaxy fold It also has a universal flash storage system, 512GB or 1TB, which allows it to read data from the system even faster than the others. smartphones. And to support the use of the big screen and for a longer amount of time, it has a 4.380mAh battery.

adaptive apps

Having a screen that can fold and open at any time requires some special care in terms of applications. Therefore, the Samsung entered into partnership with Google and the developer community Android to adapt and improve some applications for the Galaxy fold such as WhatsApp, Microsoft Office and the Youtube, for example.

With this, you can use the large screen to run up to three applications simultaneously. You can watch a video while doing an internet search and chatting with a friend on a messenger, all with all three windows open at the same time.

Another adaptation worth mentioning is the application continuity. This causes an app that is opened while the screen is folded to adapt when that screen is opened. A map, for example, will show a certain area on the smaller screen when in smartphone, but when in mode tablets, the area will be expanded taking into account the increase in screen space.

Justin Denison, Senior Vice President of Mobile Device Marketing at Samsung, stated that the Galaxy fold It's unlike anything I've seen so far. It is a smartphone versatile and at the same time a tablet with a good camera.

Galaxy Fold cameras

The new foldable smartphone from Samsung It has a total of 6 cameras. Three are located on the back and are a wide angle, an ultra wide angle and a telephoto. There is also a dual camera on the front for selfies, located in a notch in the upper right corner of the screen. It also has a single camera there.

Price and availability

The device has four different colors for the user to choose from, black (Cosmos Black), silver (Space Silver), green (martian green) it's blue (blue astro). As for price and availability, the smartphone will come in LTE and 5G versions. Its suggested price is US $ 1.980.

Source: DigitalTrends