Seriously thin Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 sets new Aussie standard

Of all the phone trends in 2025, thinner designs have been the most consistent. Samsung launched the slimline Galaxy S25 Edge not that long ago, and now it has its thinnest foldable yet, announcing the Galaxy Z Fold 7 at the Galaxy Unpacked event overnight.

Other than the Google Pixel Pro Fold, Samsung doesn’t have much competition as far as the book-like foldable segment goes in Australia. Overseas is a different matter entirely. In China, Honor recently revealed the Magic V5, a phone that’s just 8.8mm thin when folded.

At 8.9mm thick, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 comes mightily close to being the thinnest foldable in the world. Samsung’s engineers have made decent strides in slimming down the form factor, reducing the thickness by 4.2mm compared to last year’s Z Fold 6. Next to the more traditional Galaxy S25 Ultra, the Z Fold 7 is only 0.7mm thicker, and that’s after folding it.

Here’s what the Z Fold 7 (left) looks like next to the S25 Ultra (right). Image: Samsung.

This improved form factor also comes with a $150 price increase for the 256GB model, starting at $2,899 in Australia. In exchange, you get the latest Samsung-optimised Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, the same as the S25 Ultra.

Elsewhere, Samsung has also expanded both the outer and inner screens, giving you more room to work with. The Fold 7 now has an 8-inch main inner screen (up from 7.6 inches), and the front display is 6.5 inches (up from 6.3 inches).

A 200MP wide-angle camera makes its Galaxy Z debut with the Fold 7, sharing the same megapixel count as the S25 Ultra’s main camera. Although megapixels aren’t everything, a higher count lets you zoom in and crop further on existing images without adding distortion.

Out of the box, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, like the new Galaxy Z Flip 7, gets the latest One UI 8 operating system, based on Android 16. As part of the new AI software features, the foldable phone will get enhanced Gemini Live and Google Circle to Search functionality, like multimodal search.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price and release date

As mentioned before, the Z Fold 7 starts at $2,899 for the base model. That higher price quickly surpasses the $3,000 mark once you look at bigger storage configurations:

• 256GB: $2,899
• 512GB: $ 3,099
• 1TB: $3,549

Fortunately for the early adopters, many of the Z Fold 7 pre-order offers include a free storage upgrade. So, if you pick the 512GB model, you’ll pay the price of the 256GB version and so on. As for colours, the Z Fold 7 comes in Blue Shadow, Silver Shadow, and Jet Black, while Mint is exclusive to phones ordered via Samsung’s website.

Pre-orders are live now, ready for a 1 August release date.

Valens Quinn attended Galaxy Unpacked in Brooklyn as a guest of Samsung Australia.

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