New leaks suggest Samsung’s Z Fold 7 is getting much thinner
It looks like Samsung may have an answer to Oppo's Find N5 after all, as new leaks claim that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will only be fractionally thicker than the world's thinnest foldable. That's according to renders created by OnLeaks based on leaked information.
OnLeaks, together with Android Headlines, reports that the Z Fold 7 will be just 4.5mm thick when open. The Find N5 -currently the world's thinnest book-style foldable - is 4.2mm thick, and the previous record-holder, Honor's Magic V3, is 4.4mm.
That would put Samsung right up there with the global competition, and make this quite comfortably the thinnest foldable phone in the US. Its Z Fold 6 is 5.6mm thick, and Google's Pixel 9 Pro Fold runs to 5.1mm. The OnePlus Open is the thickest at 5.8mm, and the company has already confirmed it has no plans for a new foldable model this year.
The Z Fold 7's dimensions when closed are a little less clear. The report says that the phone will be 9.5mm thick counting the camera bump, and closer to 9mm without, but that doesn't make much sense: the camera bump itself is clearly more than 0.5mm thick, protruding quite extensively from the body in the new images, even more so than on previous models.
Interestingly, the Z Fold 7 sounds bigger in its other dimensions, with a larger 8.2-inch inner screen and a 6.5-inch outer one, which will be wider than the previous generation. That might be how Samsung has reportedly been able to fit the same size 4,400mAh battery into a thinner design.
Elsewhere, Android Headlines predicts that the phone will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, and boast a new 200-megapixel main camera, alongside the same 10-megapixel telephoto and 12-megapixel ultrawides as the Z Fold 6.
It's expected to launch in July 2025 together with the Galaxy Z Flip 7. Recent rumors had suggested that Samsung would use the same event to announce its first trifold phone, though that's far from certain: leaker Max Jambor took to Twitter today to claim that the trifold will instead launch at a later point in time."