If you feel that Samsung just woke up and decided, then let’s reduce the things below for their next fold and flip, well, you can’t be more wrong. Things take time, good things sometimes for a long time -even for anyone that we can do amazing things and can keep it like a clock again and again. It is okay to imagine and hope, but reality is much more complicated than that. Or at least it is the assumption that I returned to Samsung after revealing the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Galaxy Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7 Fe

The thing about foldables is that either a geographical is getting too much – that is, China – is available with very low management to avoid those borders and all one and to all, or there is no action in the rest of the world. Then Samsung is: OG foldable phone manufacturer. The problem is that, for the longest period, it seemed that it chose the willpower, which could be true, but it also imposed that Big Innovation had stopped. Guna 6 was mostly similar to fold 5, which felt itself like a soup-up fold 4. Fold 7 and Flip 7 as well as not only break that impression, but also prove what Samsung, Well, Samsung makes. This is the tireless pursuit of the next big thing.

The Galaxy Z fold 7, Brooklyn, unveiled on the Galaxy Anapac in New York, marks the “a new era of the Galaxy Z series” by combining previous learning with the technology ready for the future including Advanced AI. However, the most striking aspect is its unprecedented thinness and mild, which is a direct response to consumer response, according to Akshar Gupta, Director, MX Business, Samsung India.

On the occasion of the July 2025 incident in Samsung’s Galaxy, Gupta told India Today Tech, “Hardware has reached a point where consumers are probably not looking for innovation beyond the 200-megapixel camera.” “So, then the question is whether there is a need to change?”

Fold “Ultra” Thin

Gupta revealed that the surprisingly slim profile of Z Fold 7 was not just about to have a tricks, but is a complete re-engineering process. “This year, with the launch of the Galaxy S25 Edge, is a design philosophy change (in Samsung). We are re -engineering the existing technology to make it compact and putting it inside the slim form factor device.”

He explained in detail on the complex challenges involved: “On paper, it will look very easy. We already have a 200-megapixel camera in S25 Ultra, we can put it inside the fold too, okay?

It carefully extends to every internal element beyond the engineering camera module. “This is not only for the camera, but also how PCB is, how batteries and displays are inserted into the system. When you have to get the amount of such madness, you have to engineer again. Without it, without it, it will not happen.”

Gupta admitted that the contestants have also chased slim designs, but often with trade-off. “When you say, the competition is doing this, then there are tradeoffs that are done by everyone. They cannot have Ray Tracing or Vapor Chamber Cooling. There are many tradeoffs.”

It is not to be said that Guna is 100 percent free from 7 tradeoffs. Perhaps the most important change is to remove S-Pen support.

“Folds do not support 7S-pen as it requires a digitiser under the screen,” Gupta said.

“When you have to dilute, this is a tradeoff. We had to remove the digitiser from the fold 7 to get this thin.”

He recognized it as a “negative tradeoff”, but expressed confidence in the overall package. “We are very, very confident of what is the overall package. See, at the end of the day, consumers want everything in the device. Our effort is to try and give everything, but you cannot give everything in every device.”

The driving force behind this radical design overhaul was a clear consumer response. “When we asked our customers, they said that they cannot compromise any more on the flagship bar-type.

The results of Samsung’s re-engineering are impressive. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is a notable 24 gram lighter than its predecessor, fold 6, which weighs only 215 grams – even lighter than the Galaxy S25 ultra (218 g). Its folded thickness is only 8.9 mm (3.2 mm thin compared to fold 6), and when manifests, it measures only 4.2 mm (about 1.4 mm thinner compared to fold 6).

These tight dimensions are the result of a combination of new materials and internal restructuring. The device has a corning gorilla glass ceramic on the cover, a “armor flexing” that closes the thin, and a “advanced armor” aluminum frame. The main performance is also thin and light.

While the S-pen may be absent, the fold provides a powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite for the fold 7 large screen (8-inch main, 6.5-inch cover), an advanced 200-megapixel main camera, and the Galaxy processor. The pricing for the Galaxy Z fold 7 starts at Rs 1,74,999 for 12/256 GB model, with a 12/512 GB version at Rs 1,86,999 and the top-end 16/1TB model at Rs 2,10,999.