What They Say
The Korea Herald forecast that Samsung will announce three new foldable phones in its event on August 11th which will be livestreamed from Seoul. There will be a Galaxy Z Fold 3 with a 7.55″ internal foldable display and a 6.23″ cover display. There will be five cameras – three with 12mp, a 16mp under-display selfie camera and a 10mp camera on the cover side. It is expected to support the S-Pen.
There are reported to be two clamshell folding Z Flip 3. The external display is expected to be 1.9″ diagonal on both, but one will be a ‘Lite’ version.
The firm quotes Counterpoint as forecasting 5.8 million foldable smartphone shipments this year, up from 2.8 million in 2020.
The report also forecasts a dual-folding phone later as it is still under development.
What We Think
The Counterpoint data is quite close to the DSCC forecast that we reported a couple of weeks ago. (DSCC Marks Corning Samsung Win for UTG in Foldables) (BR)
2019 – 2021 Foldable Smartphone Shipments and Production. Source:DSCC
