Alongside the Galaxy Z Fold 3 5G, Samsung also launched the Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G on Wednesday, 11th August at its virtual Galaxy Unpacked 2021 occasion. The Z Flip 3 which is a comply with-up to last year’s Galaxy Z Flip brings a larger, more valuable cover show and water resistant design and style inside a slightly more compact body offered in a bevy of colour solutions. There is of course more potent hardware inside this phone but the larger deal right here is the all-round refinement. The Z Flip was currently a fairly wonderful item. The Z Flip 3 is seeking even greater.
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The Z Flip 3 begins at $1,000 for a version with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. India pricing is however to be announced.
Galaxy Z Flip 3 specs and features
Like the Z Fold 3, the Z Flip 3 is also IPX8 certified which tends to make it water resistant. Samsung says you can submerge it in up to 1.5m of freshwater for up to 30 minutes. The body is made virtually totally out of Corning Gorilla Glass Victus, and the key camera unit has Corning Gorilla Glass DX, like the Z Fold 3. The Z Flip 3 is also having Samsung’s new armour aluminum frame which is mentioned to be 10 % stronger than the material utilised on preceding generation.
The other major highlight is the Z Flip 3’s cover show which is lastly having some degree of “practicality.” It is virtually 2-inch now and is also having a slight resolution bump so taking selfies in “dual preview” is more valuable, and hopefully, a more pleasurable knowledge.
The inner screen remains largely untouched although which is a bummer contemplating Samsung is placing an beneath-show camera in the Z Fold 3. It is 6.7-inch 1080p with dynamic 120Hz refresh price and the hole punch cutout homes the identical 10MP camera as last year. Speaking of which, the rear camera setup is also becoming carried forward, so you nonetheless get dual 12MP cameras (wide+ultra-wide-angle).
Under the hood, the Z Flip 3 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor paired with 8GB RAM and up to 256GB storage.
Battery capacity is identical a last year, which is 3,300mAh.
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