Whenever we think that smartphone companies have reached the saturation point with their innovation, Samsung elevates the bar with its new products and proves us wrong. Following this same trend, the company has once again pushed the boundaries of smartphone technology with the launch of its latest foldable handsets – Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6. The new foldable phones bring some meaningful upgrades that aim to enhance productivity, creativity, and overall user experience. Let’s explore what makes these new devices stand out.
Galaxy AI: Unleashing Creativity and Productivity
The Galaxy AI suite enhances the user experience across the entire Galaxy family. It offers a range of features designed to unlock creativity and boost productivity. Key functionalities include:
- Photo Assist: Provides AI-powered suggestions for enhancing photos. With this feature, generative edit can fill in the background when straightening images or moving/resizing objects in photos with auto fill.
- Call Assist: With real-time voice and text translations, this groundbreaking feature allows users to have meaningful one-to-one conversations with people who are speaking in a foreign language.
- Chat Assist: This feature is a godsend for those who struggle with responses in appropriate tone. You can use translation, change writing style, or even check for spelling and grammatical mistakes in your message via this feature.
- Note Assist: The new Galaxy Z series phones brings along Note Assist feature, designed to boost productivity and creativity. This feature simplifies note-taking and organisation with features like auto formatting (for a clean look), summarisation (to help you get required info at just a glance), and translation. These tools help users streamline their work and stay organised effortlessly.
- Instant Slow-mo: This feature lets you save and share videos in slow-motion to give it a cinematic effect.
With the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold6 and Z Flip6, Galaxy AI functionalities have also taken a step-up.
Galaxy Z Fold6 Specifications
The Galaxy Z Fold6 is equipped with top-of-the-line hardware to support its innovative features. Let us go through the key features that make it the ultimate premium device:
- Display: Immersive and expansive 7.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X screen with 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate that is perfect for watching multimedia content. With a peak brightness of 2600nits, this handset’s display is clearly visible even under direct sunlight while travelling outdoors.
- Rear Cameras: Extremely capable 50MP (wide-angle sensor) primary camera, a 12MP (ultra-wide) sensor, and a 10MP (3x optical telephoto) camera. Versatile camera sensors provide creative opportunity for diverse content.
- Front Camera: Get ready to take detailed selfies with 10MP front-facing sensor.
- Under Display Front Camera: Near-invisible 4MP camera under the main display.
- Processor: Top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Gen3 for Galaxy devices (4nm) that offers robust performance. This chipset is so powerful that even power users will struggle to make it sweat.
- Memory: 12GB RAM for butter-smooth performance.
- Storage Options: 256GB, 512GB, 1TB.
- Battery: Massive 4400mAh battery for long-lasting backup.
- Durability: The phone comes with IP48 rating, Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and extended Armour Aluminium to offer impressive durability to this form factor.
Interpreter: Seamless Communication
The Interpreter app on the Galaxy Z Fold6 supports , displaying translations on both the cover and the main screens for smoother conversations. The listening mode allows for real-time interpretation and translation, making communication seamless and more efficient than ever.
Composer
With this feature, these phones will provide you sentences on the basis of brief inputs. If you simply type some keywords you want to elaborate on, Galaxy AI will come up with sentence (or even paragraphs) to help you put across your thoughts in a convenient manner. You can also choose the format and the tone of message. This means you don’t need to spend too much time thinking of the right words and just need to share what you want to communicate in desired tone. Simple and easy!
New Ways to Create with Note Assist
The Galaxy Z Fold6 brings along Note Assist feature, designed to boost productivity and creativity. Note Assist simplifies note-taking and organisation with features like auto formatting, summarisation, and translation. These tools help users streamline their work and stay organised effortlessly. With the large display on offer with the Galaxy Z Fold6, taking notes is easier than ever and if the phone is turned in landscape mode, the original content and summarization will be optimised right away. This makes it possible to see all the content at a glance.
The Note app on these new foldable phones will also feature a transcript feature that will make it easier for you to get written text from voice notes. You also get direct overlay translations for PDF files, which will make it easier than ever to read text in languages that you don’t understand. These tools provide you the ultimate toolkit for productivity of the highest order.
With the Drawing Assist, the Galaxy Z Fold6 users can generate images instantly from sketches you draw, offering various styles to choose from. This feature, combined with the device’s large 7.6-inch dynamic AMOLED screen, transforms the Galaxy Z Fold6 into a powerful tool for artists and professionals alike.
Circle to Search: A Fun and Magical Way to Search
One of the standout features of the Galaxy Z Fold6 and the Galaxy Z Flip6 is the Circle to Search functionality, which was introduced with the Galaxy S24 series and immediately became a hit among users.
Powered by Google, this feature allows users to search for information about anything on their screen by simply holding down the home button and circling the content. Whether it’s an image, video, or text, Circle to Search provides quick and accurate search results, saving time and adding a fun, almost magical, element to the search process. The buck doesn’t just stop there – Circle to Search on Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 & Z Flip6 now helps you translate, and even works on math problems.
- Display: The primary 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X main Display offers 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate that is ideal for playing games or watching movies. In the folded form, you are treated to the 3.4-inch Super AMOLED cover display (60Hz).
- Rear Cameras: Impressive 50IMP (wide-angle sensor) primary camera, and a 12MP (ultra-wide) sensor. Thanks to the unique form factor of this phone and these capable cameras, the Galaxy Z Flip6 can take some amazing shots.
- Front Camera: Social media-ready selfies with 10MP front-facing sensor.
- Processor: Top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Gen3 for Galaxy devices (4nm) that offers top-notch performance. This is a customised chipset for Samsung phones that offers these devices uncompromising horse power.
- Memory: 12GB LPDDR5X RAM for butter-smooth performance.
- Storage Options: 256GB, 512GB.
- Battery: Massive 4000mAh battery for long-lasting backup.
- Durability: The phone comes with IP48 rating, Gorilla Glass Victus 2 (front and back glass), and enhanced Armor Aluminium to offer impressive durability to this form factor.
FlexCam: Capture Hands-Free Moments
The Galaxy Z Flip6 features the innovative FlexCam, which allows users to capture hands-free videos and full group selfies without the need for a tripod. You can simply prop your phone at your desired angle and start snapping. The 50MP camera with optical 2x zoom, auto zoom in & out, and generative portrait styles enable users to create unique and creative portraits effortlessly.
AI-powered portraits, Auto zoom, and Portrait Studio
The Galaxy Z Flip6 offers AI-powered portraits that not only get you clear and authentic facial expressions but also natural backgrounds. The Auto zoom feature on the other hand automatically detects the subject and zooms in and out automatically for the best angle on Flex Cam. With optical 2x zoom and this AI zoom solution, you will get amazing clear shots with ease, irrespective of subject’s distance from the phone. With the Portrait Studio feature, you can choose some fun styles for your portrait shots including 3D cartoon, sketch, watercolour, and comic.
Flex Window: Convenient and Customisable
The Flex Window on the Galaxy Z Flip6 makes it easy to respond to messages with one hand, thanks to its responsive and intuitive design. Quick suggested message replies and the ability to create unique images with keywords to use as wallpapers add to the customisation options.
Be the life of the party with amazing photos and videos!
Much like the Galaxy S24, one can get brighter night photos and videos with reduced noise even third party camera apps on the Galaxy Z Flip6 (on par with the quality of native camera app). With the Camcorder grip, which you can experience only on the Galaxy Z Flip phones, further makes it easy to record and control with one hand.
Customization in the palm of your hand
For the customization junkie in you, The Galaxy Z Flip6 flex window supports interactive wallpaper that responds to touch or movements and offers 3D emojis. The cover display can show you the real time weather and the generative wallpapers let you customise your phone’s aesthetic with simple keywords. You can choose the frame colour and clock type to customise the wallpaper even further.
Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6 – Best foldable phones in market
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6 represent significant leaps forward for foldable smartphones. With their combination of innovative features, powerful AI capabilities, and robust hardware, these devices offer versatile solutions for enhancing productivity and creativity. Whether you prefer the expansive screen and advanced functionalities of the Z Fold 6 or the compact, customisable design of the Z Flip 6, Samsung’s latest foldables are set to transform how we use smartphones.While the Galaxy Z Fold6 is available in Silver Shadow, Pink, and Navy colours, the Galaxy Z Flip6 is being offered in Blue, Silver Shadow, and Mint hues. You can already pre-book these amazing handsets and while pre-booking the Galaxy Z Flip6 will fetch you benefits worth Rs 24000, if you go for the Galaxy Z Fold6, you can avail benefits worth a whopping Rs 29,000.
