Galaxy Z Fold6 Review: Beast Level Productivity!
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2024 unveiled not just one but multiple devices for three different categories, including smartphones, smart watch and a new Galaxy Ring. Although the most anticipated device is of course the Galaxy Z Fold6 and the Flip6 this for this year.
And today, we will discuss all the new and powerful new changes Samsung brought for this year’s Galaxy Z Fold6. What changes Galaxy made apart from Galaxy Fold5 and why it’s considered one of the best devices to improve productivity and entertainment.
So, let’s dive into Fold6’s offering for this year and find out more about it in today’s Galaxy Z Fold6 review. Without further ado, let’s get started:
Table of Contents:
1. Galaxy Z Fold6: Key Features
While before diving into the detailed Galaxy Z Fold6 review. Here are the short key features of the
Device:
| Galaxy Z Fold6: KEY FEATURES |
| 🔸 Ultimate Entertainment and Multitasking with AMOLED Screen; |
| 🔸 ProVision Engine enabled Triple camera System; |
| 🔸 Powerful Gaming & Productivity with Snapdragon’s 8 Gen 3 Chipset; |
| 🔸 Useful Galaxy AI features like Photo Assist & Circle to Search; |
| 🔸 Large 4400mAh Battery with up to 77 hours of music listening. |
2. Galaxy Z Fold6: Pros & Cons
Before jumping into the overall Galaxy Z Fold6, here’s a quick heads up about the Galaxy Z Fold6’s good and bad sites:
| Pros: | Cons: |
| 👍🏾 Stunning design with folding mechanism; 👍🏾 Gaming feels immersive in the large AMOLED Screen; 👍🏾 Spectacular performance from Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3; 👍🏾 Gorgeous photos from triple camera; 👍🏾 Superb stereo speaker sounds with greater AKG tuning. | 👎🏾 Still no expandable storage solution; 👎🏾 Still slow Charging compared to competition; 👎🏾 Price upgrade from last year. |
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3. Galaxy Z Fold6: Design & Build
It is obvious that popular brands try their best to provide an iconic design for their users. Fold6 from Samsung gives you just what users want. From top to bottom of the smartphone there’s a touch of elegance in terms of design features.
| Design |
| ☑️ Boxier design with matte color finishing; ☑️ Folding Design gives you single or foldable large screen; ☑️ Three stunning colors with Navy, Pink and Silver Shadow. |
With an amazing foldable design Galaxy Z Fold6 looks not just spectacular but feels great too in your hands. As you get newer curves on all edges of this amazing foldable phone.
Instead of slight curves, Samsung went fully god mode this year with a totally boxier design. Folding mechanism feels solid with lots of in-hand folds. There’s also three colors available and the Navy color looks quite interesting at first glance.
| Build |
| ☑️ Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on folded screen with Aluminum frame; ☑️ 239 Lightweight build; ☑️ 5.6mm Thinnest folded design. |
As for the build quality, you get all the premium builds here, with Gorilla glass protection for the cover screen and aluminum frame for the side. Internal unfolded screen has a plastic front due to the folded mechanism, and looks quite crisp.
Fold6 feels lightweight as well compared to last year, as you get 14 grams lighter weight this year. It is thinner as well, you get 5.6mm thickness now, making the fold6 one of the thinnest foldable devices in the market.
4. Galaxy Z Fold6: Display
There are certain display factors that make the Fold6 look attractive in front of the users. The primary display features are:
| Display |
| ☑️ 7.6-Inch Dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2X, HDR10+, 2600 nits; ☑️ 6.3’’ Cover Screen, 1600 nits Peak Brightness; ☑️ Up To 120Hz Refresh Rate. |
Moving on to the display section, you get pretty appreciable specs here and quite similar like last year. There’s a large 7.6’’ screen when unfolded and it is a dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2x display with HDR10+ supported, so enjoying movies or Netflix TV-shows like One-Piece would be spectacular. You also get a faster refresh rate with 120Hz, so playing online games provides higher FPS.
The cover screen is just wow, you get a similar Dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2x display with 120Hz refresh rate in the 6.3-inch panel. It is protected by Gorilla Glass Victus 2, so no need to worry about scratches. Doing phone calls and quick notification info checking or messaging feels just like a regular flagship phone.
5. Galaxy Z Fold6: Camera
There’s a dual rear camera lens for the Galaxy Z Fold6, and a single front facing camera for shooting your selfies. To be more specific, check the box down below:
| Camera |
| ☑️ 50MP Main, 10MP Telephoto, 12MP Ultrawide; ☑️ 4MP Under Display, 10MP Cover camera; ☑️ 8K Recording For Rear, 4K Recording For Front. |
Here’s a topic which we love to talk about, the cameras. And this year, Samsung sadly made no significant changes in their fold6 except for the telephoto lens. As you literally get similar megapixels and recording performance for all triple cameras.
Which is a 50 MP wide angle lens, a 10MP 66mm telephoto lens and a 12MP ultra wide lens which cover around 123° field of viewing. There’s a 8K recording capability, which lets you capture gorgeous footage for daylight and even nighttime photography.
There’s a hidden 4MP camera inside the unfolded screen, not hidden actually it’s an under display camera to be precise. You do get a very good flagship level front camera, which is on the folded screen, and it’s a 10MP wide angle lens with HDR and 4K recording capabilities. Selfies look quite sharp and videos are pretty good in daylight.
6. Galaxy Z Fold6: Performance
Let’s talk about the overall performance of the Galaxy Z Fold6. As there’s lot to talk about, although here’s a quick view for your help down below of performance specs at a glance:
| Performance |
| ☑️ Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3; ☑️ Up To 12GB RAM & Up To 1TB Storage; ☑️ Adreno 750 (1GHz) GPU. |
As for the performance section, there’s a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor inside the fold6, and Octa-core performance and gives you up to 3.39Ghz processing power. It’s literally awesome doing multiple tasks all at once like photo editing, spreadsheets and browsing without facing any delays.
There’s also utmost 12GB of Ram and up to 1 Terabytes of storage with no expandable memory. And you don’t get any higher Ram option, there’s just 12GB ram for all storage variants. Let’s hope Samsung will bring an expandable storage option later on.
Games And Entertainment seems really exciting with the Galaxy Fold6, as playing games on the large 7.6 unfoldable AMOLED screen looks just awesome.
Adreno 750 is there as GPU for backing up your high-intense graphics games such as PUBG MOBILE or Genshin Impact, and you will get high fps while playing these games. As for the sound quality, AKG tuning for the stereo speakers is there, which just makes movie and gaming sound more immersive.
7. Galaxy Z Fold6: Software & UI
As for the overall look and viewing angle, you get one of the latest OS and software features from Fold6, a quick look will make it more perfect down below:
| Performance |
| ☑️ One UI 6.1.1 on Android 14; ☑️ Galaxy AI & S-Pen Support; ☑️ Seven Years OS Update. |
Overall looks of the Galaxy Fold6 looks a lot like your updated Fold5, as there’s the One UI 6.1.1 on top of Android 14. In the new One UI 6.1.1 you enhance the user experience through improved interfaces in terms of UI, new functionalities, enhanced Galaxy AI features.
As for the Galaxy AI, you get photo Assist, like moving objects in photos or erase and enlarge. There’s also an AI generated portrait studio for further photo editing, live interpreter usage for translation live on spot, which becomes pretty useful while traveling to unknown language countries.
And with the S Pen compatibility you can be more productive with Galaxy AI, whenever you perform new commands in the note taking processing or even using Air Commands for allowing you to use shortcuts at ease.
OS updates seem like last year’s model, you get seven years of OS update and seven years of security patches from Samsung.
8. Galaxy Z Fold6: Battery Life
Battery life is really useful for the Galaxy flagship devices, as you will run a lot of apps and games on this beast. Although Samsung did not bring any new changes but still it’s good news, which is they didn’t change to lower capacity.
| Performance |
| ☑️ 4400mAh Battery; ☑️ 25W Wired, 15W Wireless, 4.5W Reverse Wireless. |
There’s no changes in terms of battery life for fold6, as you literally get similar battery capacity and even charging speed also remains the same as usual. You get 4400mAh battery for which gives you around 77 hours of music time and 23 hours of video streaming capability.
Now that you have an upgraded Qualcomm processor with an amazing adaptive refresh rate, your power consumption will be much more efficient than the previous fold5 model. And as for charging features, you get similar 25W wired fast charging, 15W wireless and a 4.5W reverse wireless, which just lets you get power from another device.
It’s really now a wish from us to Samsung to include a higher watt charging capability as the competition is really beating Fold6 in terms of faster charging.
9. Overall Specs
While still understanding all the major details inside the Galaxy Z Fold6 review, here are the more technical specifications of the Galaxy Z Fold6 down below:
| Specs | Galaxy Z Fold6 |
| Body | Dimension (HxWxD, mm): 153.5 x 132.6 x 5.6 | Dimension when folded (HxWxD, mm): 153.5 x 68.1 x 12.1 | Weight: 239 gram | Build: |
| Display | Main Display: 7.6-Inch | 2160 x 1856 (QXGA+) | Dynamic AMOLED 2X | Sub Display: 6.3-Inch | 968 x 2376 (HD+) | Dynamic AMOLED 2X |
| Rear Camera | 50.0 MP (Main) + 12.0 MP (Ultrawide) + 10.0 MP (Telephoto) | 8K |
| Front camera | 4MP (Main) |
| Processor | CPU Speed: 3.39GHz, 3.1GHz, 2.9GHz, 2.2GHz | CPU Type: Octa-Core |
| OS | Android 14 | One UI 6.1.1 |
| RAM & ROM | 12GB | 256GB |
| Battery Capacity | 4400mAh |
| Audio & Video | Stereo Support: Yes | Video Playing Format: MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM | Video Playing Resolution: UHD 8K (7680 x 4320) @60fps |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2.4GHz+5GHz+6GHz, HE160, MIMO, 1024-QAM | Wi-Fi Direct: Yes | Bluetooth v5.3 | |
| SIM | Number of SIM: Dual-SIM | SIM Slot Type: SIM 1 + SIM 2 |
10. Verdict
As for the last few words, the new Galaxy Z Fold6 from Samsung comes with amazing new design changes as its design speaks out from the moment you hold it in your hand. There’s not many differences noticed in terms of camera or battery life, though we did find changes in terms of processing power and design elements.
If you are someone who needs a foldable phone with ultimate productivity and entertainment performance then look no further than the Galaxy Z Fold6, as you get the top processor power as well as superb camera features and a foldable screen which unfolds to give you exceptional content viewing experience.
Don’t forget there’s a price upgrade from last year’s fold5 and you still get similar battery specs. If you can consider those drawbacks not important then the Galaxy Z Fold6 can be a great option for you.
Get the Galaxy Z Fold6, if
- You require the most powerful folding phone in the market;
- You need the best looking design elements in a smartphone;
- You want an amazing display feature with a great UI.
Rabbi Rahman enjoys talking about tech, gadgets and especially smartphones. He’s been writing about them for four years . His favorite topic is discussing innovations in devices, engaging in conversations with others who share his passion for technology.
