Let’s face it, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 announcement was an AI-riddled snooze fest. The company was rather conservative with its improvements and it buried the actual significant changes like dust resistance. Well, it looks like 2025’s Galaxy foldables will also have minor changes.
In an interview with Korean news site The Elec, a representative for Chinese company Fastprint told us about what Samsung is planning on doing. It appears that the company has high hopes for its Galaxy S25 series, as it’s going to boost production for these phones. However, it doesn’t look like the company has much faith in the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7.
According to a recent report, Samsung cut the production goal for its foldables down to 5 million units in all. That’s down from the 8.8 million phone production run that it had with the 2024 foldables. This latest interview helps corroborate that report.
2025’s Galaxy foldables might bring only little changes
Whereas Samsung is looking to sell a bunch of Galaxy S25 units, the same can’t be said for their foldable counterparts. According to the Fastprint representative, Samsung will introduce minor changes to this year’s foldable phones. Last year, we saw a stronger internal display, slightly smaller bezels, dust resistance, and more powerful internals among other smaller changes. We expect to see these changes this year.
That’s a bummer because the Galaxy Z Fold 6 wasn’t much different from the Galaxy Z Fold 5… which wasn’t very different from the Galaxy Z Fold 4. We’ve asked Apple this question for years: how long is Samsung going to keep selling people the same phone?
There might be good news next year
While we should expect this year’s launch to be boring, Fastprint’s representative did clue us in on something interesting. “Looking only at Samsung Electronics’ foldable phone form factor, it seems that there will be some changes starting with the Z8 series that will be released in 2026, aside from the Galaxy Z7 series next year.”
So, it looks like Samsung will save its major upgrades for its 2026 foldable phones. It seems odd that Samsung’s response to lukewarm sales is to basically launch the same devices again. However, there’s a chance that this latest batch of foldable phones was already in production before last year’s launch. If so, then it’s possible that 2025’s foldables were already well on their way before Samsung saw the sales. As such, it can’t change directions. It will need to press forward and bring more significant changes to next year’s phones.
