Samsung’s New ZFold 7 is Crazy Thin, And the new Galaxy Watch Knows Your Diet.

For a few years now Samsung has been resting on their laurels a bit when it comes to their Foldable smartphones. That all changed today with the launch of the Galaxy ZFold 7 – this is the Fold we’ve been waiting for.

Now, don’t get me wrong, year after year the foldable range has gotten better and better, but incrementally so. Motorola has outpaced Samsung on the Flip form factor with their full-screen closed cover and stylish design, while Google is the only real threat to the Fold form factor and their Pixel kicked goals with it’s impressively large front screen – an area of much consternation for reviewers and users of the Samsung Fold devices.

Fold Goes Ultra Thin

Wipe the slate clean, it’s happened, the Samsung Galaxy ZFold 7 is the fold I’ve been waiting for and I think for many more the same will ring true. It has a larger cover screen – wider and far more “like a smartphone”, and when it’s closed or open, it’s thin. Really thin.

Closed, that is the format it will be in your pocket – the Fold 7 is almost half the thickness of the first Galaxy Fold. Remarkable.

It’s also $100 cheaper than that 2019 device too I should point out, with a starting price of $2,899 – but stay tuned to EFTM – there’s some cracking deals at the telcos.

That original fold was between 15 and 17mm thick when closed – it was a wedge shape after all.

Last year’s Fold 6 was 12.1mm. The Fold 7 – 8.9mm

For context, the flagship and largest “S” series Smartphone the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is 8.2mm thick.

Now open it up, the thickness of this phone – ignoring the camera bump as we do – is just 4.2mm. What now? You read that right. 4.2mm.

For context, as best I can find, the specifications of a USB-C port have it at 3.26mm thick – so we’re talking about less than half a millimetre either side of that to frame the port within the device. Putting it simply, I don’t believe it’s possible for this device to be any thinner. Samsung did it, they went there.

The cover display is 6.5 inches, and it’s wider – far more like your traditional smartphone.

On the inside is an 8 inch display, which now does NOT support the S-Pen stylus – I wont’ lose any sleep over that, and it also sees the return of the hole punch for the inner camera. And I’m ok with that too.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 is a delight in the hand, sharper and squarer on the edges than before, but in a good way. I will review this – something I’ve not done with Folds over the last few years. if I can’t comfortably have it in my pocket, why bother. Now, i will.

This will bring sales to Samsung. Already 30% of their foldable smartphone owners are new to Samsung, could that number increase?

Does Samsung know something about Apple’s plans that we don’t? Because we’ve always said they would release this level of “innovation” when they needed to leap ahead of potential competition – well ahead they are – by a long way.

Flipping out – the Flip is bigger.

Conversely, the Samsung Galaxy Flip 7 is bigger than it’s predecessors. It’s wider, allowing for a bigger battery to address battery life concerns, but also packing a full-screen cover at 4.1 inches.

That screen goes so close to the edge you’re calling the police for help. It’s the thinest Bezel around a screen on any Samsung Galaxy Phone ever. Ever.

At just 188g it’s just a gram heavier than last years, but packs a bigger 6.9 inch screen.

Those who know me know, this is the form factor I think wins this market sector – with Motorola playing in this space, I really think this is where Apple goes if they ever do, and now Samsung is ready here too – a bigger screen on the inside and outside, it’s market leading.

We’ll cover the nifty stuff in our review, but for example the area of screen around or “behind” the camera lenses is also used for notifications, showing a red light when recording video, flashing white when you switch camera modes. This is cool.

At $1,799 it’s not cheap, but that’s also why Samsung isn’t knocking off production of the Flip 6. Instead, they’re giving it a makeover, adding some AI features and keeping it on the range as the Flip 7 FE. The same form factor and cover screen as last year’s Flip 6, this one will retail for $1,499.

Watch-ing your Vegetable intake.

Are you eating your Veges? No, I’m not, and I know it. In fact, I was worried about how bad any test for that would be.

Turns out, pretty bad.

Did you know your “Antioxidant levels” are an indicator of if you’re eating your Veggies or not? I didn’t. Then I opened Samsung Health, chose to test them, and was instructed by the phone to remove the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and put my thumb on the back sensors.

A few seconds later “Very Low” appeared on screen, with an additional score, and it was lower than my Year 12 mark folks, and that was low.

Do we need this? I guess it’s good to have?

Did we ask for it. No, but I didn’t ask for sleep or step tracking either.

Now you can monitor so many aspects of your health on just one simple Smart Watch it’s remarkable.

Watch 8 series also features Sleep Apnea Detection, and while Apple too have this approved, it’s now a race to see who gets it to market first.

When and How much?

All these products go on sale August 1, with pre-orders open now.

We’ll share pre-order deals later today right here at EFTM.com

Trevor Long travelled to New York as a guest of Samsung Australia