Foldable Phones Have Solved Nearly Every Trade-Off, Well Before Apple Debuts One

While the iPhone Fold is expected to launch later this year, foldable phones appear to be finding their place well before Apple releases its first. It’s been a long road to get here since the 2019 release of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, but the maturity of the foldable phone couldn’t be coming at a better time. While the early phones in this category were thicker, expensive and had a very noticeable crease, many of these issues are on their way out.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7, for instance, is thin enough to feel like a standard slab phone while folded. The new Honor Magic V6 has a larger battery capacity than the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. Huawei’s Mate X7 has a 50-megapixel main camera with a 10-stop variable aperture — a feature previously limited to top-of-the-line camera phones. And Oppo finally fixed the crease issue with its Find N6 foldable phone, making

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