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Samsung reveals its plans for 2025 foldable and Galaxy A phones
Galaxy Unpacked 2025 in San Jose was an exciting event where Samsung announced the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra new flagship phones and teased the Galaxy S25 Edge. Meanwhile, Samsung reveals its plans for 2025 foldable and Galaxy A phones in Q4 FY2024 Earnings Results Conference Call.
Samsung Reveals 2025 foldable plans, hints at new phone
Samsung held its Q4 2024 earnings call on January 31, 2025, where a company executive highlighted future foldable plans says we’re looking forward to diversifying our lineup later this year to expand our customer base. -With form factor design and aiming to increase durability.
We’re aiming to enhance the form factor design and durability while also diversifying our lineup later this year in order to expand our customer base.
This hints that we may see a new model, as we’ve heard rumors of a Galaxy Z Flip FE model for years, and it’s heated up in recent months. A cheaper foldable phone would definitely help “expand” the same customer base as the Galaxy S25 Edge.
Galaxy A mid-rangers to get improvements in some key specifications
In addition to the plans for 2025 foldable, Samsung also teases the Galaxy A series phones strategic plans. The report said that for the A series, the company will enhance the core specifications that consumers really care about, such as design, display, and battery.
For the A series, we’ll enhance the core specs that consumers really care about, like the design, the display, and battery (sic). And prepare a go-to-market strategy on par with that of our flagship devices.
Samsung is preparing to launch three A-series smartphones Galaxy A56, Galaxy A36, and Galaxy A26. Several leaks have emerged about the three devices that shed light on their design, specifications, and launch timeline.
Finally, the Samsung executive also talked about the company’s upcoming affordable phones. This may include Galaxy A1x and A0x models. Fans of these lineups may be disappointed to read that there won’t be any major improvements or better prices.
Additionally, the company aims to strengthen communication about our strengths such as safety and overall product competitiveness, primarily targeting emerging markets such as the Middle East and Africa.
Regarding the competitive situation in the mass market segment. Rather than engaging in price wars or directly competing on particular specs — what we call pin-to-pin — we aim to strengthen communication about our strengths, like security and overall product competitiveness, mainly targeting emerging markets like the Middle East and Africa.
Today, with beta 4 Google expanded Android 16 Beta to select non-Pixel flagship devices from partner brands. Samsung, as always, is skipping the Android 16 Beta Program, while the new OS is available for select devices launched by Honor, iQOO, Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Realme, vivo, and Xiaomi.
Google released Android 16 beta 4 with a second version of platform stability and announced that apps compatible with the new OS will now be available on the Play Store.
Honor, iQOO, Lenovo, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Vivo, and Xiaomi have opened beta registration windows for their latest flagship devices launched in the last few months. Samsung, however, is yet to complete One UI 7 for its Galaxy devices, but will soon roll out the stable One UI 7 and launch an independent One UI beta program.
Last week, it was revealed that the company is already working on Android 16’s adaptation and testing the alleged One UI 8 on the Galaxy S25 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Galaxy Z Flip 6 smartphones.
Android continues to deliver great updates and new features throughout the year, while feedback from the beta community plays a vital role in constantly improving Android. The Android 16 developer site has a lot more information about the beta, including downloads and a release timeline for Pixel.
List of devices that are running the Android 16 Beta
- HONOR Magic 7 Pro
- Lenovo YOGA Tab Plus
- OnePlus 13
- OPPO Find X8
- realme GT 7 Pro
- iQOO 13
- vivo X200 Pro
- Xiaomi 14T Pro
- Xiaomi 15
- Redmi K70 Ultra
After the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung has today resumed the rollout of One UI 7 based on the Android 15 update for the Galaxy Z Flip 6, Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Galaxy Z Fold 6 SE. It is worth noting that the Korean tech giant had halted the rollout a few days ago due to a serious bug discovered in the initial update, so it is now rolling out a new firmware that will fix this issue.
Samsung has started rolling out the new One UI 7 update for the Galaxy Z Flip 6, Z Fold 6, and Fold 6 SE. Initially available in South Korea, the new One UI 7 build will go live in more markets soon. This build is a more refined build than the initial build and includes fixes for system improvements.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, Z Fold 6, and Fold 6 SE users can recognize it by the build number ending with BYD9.
Your Galaxy foldable device might have also received the new build. But you can check for the update manually in Settings > Software update. Click on Download and install so that your phone can receive the new OTA.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has now appeared on Geekbench, revealing that the company is carrying out pre-launch tests and preparations for its new device. The latest listing also solves the chipset mystery that has been in rumours for a long time.
According to the Geekbench 6.4 listing, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 US variant with model number SM-F966U achieved 3022 points on single-core and 9307 points on multi-core tests.
The US variant of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 has appeared on Geekbench with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. Also, the phone is expected to run on Android 16-based One UI 8 operating system
Being a flagship folding handset, all these things sound quite good. Nevertheless, the actual performance will only be known once the device is officially launched in the consumer market. Inputs reveal that the chipset is clocked at 3.53 GHz base frequency.
Apart from this, the Korean tech giant can launch the Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Z Fold 7 around July this year. Also, an affordable flip model can also be introduced along with both the devices.
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