Is this the Galaxy Z Flip we see in a newly leaked promo?

Last updated: January 20th, 2020 at 13:02 UTC+01:00

Nosotros have known for the amend office of a year that Samsung is going to launch a new clamshell foldable smartphone. It has been called everything from the Galaxy Fold 2 to the Galaxy Bloom. If contempo reports are any indication, the handset might exist launched as the Galaxy Z Flip.

A leaked photo shows a promo that might potentially ostend that this device volition indeed mark the outset of Samsung'south Galaxy Z series. The upcoming device will have the distinction of existence the world's first clamshell phone with a foldable display.

Or is that a tri-folding smartphone nosotros see?

Commencement posted on Weibo, this photo shows a promo plastered on Samsung's DeX interface. Information technology conspicuously reads "Galaxy Z" with a device that appears to look like the letter Z. At first glance, it appears to exist a tri-folding device, in that the meridian and bottom parts of the device would be capable of folding.

Make no mistake, being the most inventive company that information technology is, Samsung does accept a patent on a tri-folding smartphone merely don't expect one to actually materialize for a few years.

What'due south more than plausible here is that this promo likely just shows multiple Milky way Z Flip clamshell phones lined up from meridian to bottom. There'southward e'er the possibility that this is just an elaborate fake, but the other theory does make sense.

As nosotros've highlighted earlier, information technology doesn't really matter what Samsung ends upwards calling its next foldable smartphone. What matters more is whether it will be able to fulfill its destiny every bit the device that democratizes foldable smartphones for the masses. Samsung and many of its fans expect the Milky way Z Flip to do just that. We'll find out for sure whether or non it's capable of doing that on February 11 when it's finally going to exist unveiled.