Samsung announced its folding smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, at its Unpacked event in San Francisco earlier in February. However, a couple of days back the company brought the folding phone to India with a heavy price tag of Rs 1,64,999 making it the first folding smartphone to be officially launched in India.
Samsung Galaxy Fold Pre-Orders Start Today
The company today announced that the device is now officially available for pre-booking starting today. Potential customers can head to Samsung’s online store to purchase Galaxy Fold starting at 12 PM IST. The Galaxy Fold will also be available offline in 35 cities across select 315 outlets, including the Samsung Opera House in Bengaluru, with deliveries beginning on October 20.
Meanwhile, there’s the only model of the Fold – 12GB RAM and 512GB storage, Premium Cosmos Black colour. Samsung is also bundling free Galaxy Buds with the new smartphone.
The smartphone features a 4.6-inch HD+ AMOLED cover display. When unfolded, you get a 7.3-inch QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED Display (4.2:3) Infinity Flex Display. The smartphone runs on a custom Android Pie version and is powered by a 7㎚ 64-bit Octa-Core Processor. A hinge in the middle allows you to open and close the phone and thanks to the interlocked gears, the whole process is smooth and durable. The folding phone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, and to handle all of the multitasking features, there is 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage which is using the fast UFS 3.0 standard. There are also two batteries on the inside combining to offer a total of 4,380mAh.
Samsung Galaxy Fold Specification Features
In the camera department, Samsung Galaxy Fold offers as many as six cameras – one on the front, two on the inside, and three cameras on the back. The phone has a 10-megapixel selfie camera on the cover screen. On the inside, it has 10-megapixel and 8-megapixel dual selfie cameras. On the back, Samsung Galaxy Fold offers 16-megapixel, 12-megapixel, and 12-megapixel sensors.
When using the large screen of the device, one can make use of the three-way multitasking. As of now, WhatsApp, Microsoft Office, and YouTube Premium apps will support this feature with others to follow soon.
The Galaxy Fold has finally managed to launch after multiple delays as early units of the device were flawed due to a weak flexible display on the inside. Samsung postponed the launch and after months of tinkering around, the company seems to have ‘fixed’ the issues.
