The Fold7 measures 8.9 millimeters when folded, a drastic reduction from the 12.1-mm Galaxy Z Fold6. Unfold it, and you're looking at a minuscule 4.2 mm of thickness, down from 5.6 mm last year. Honor's Magic V5 folding phone, announced last week, beats Samsung on thinness at 8.8 mm folded and 4.1 mm unfolded, but Samsung's specs are still impressive. The Fold7 is also lighter at 215 grams, a 24-gram drop from the Fold6. It weighs less than an iPhone 16 Pro Max.

What's even crazier is that the screen sizes are bigger. The external display is wider with a 21:9 aspect ratio, more like a normal smartphone, sitting at a comfortable 6.5 inches. Open the Fold7 and you get an 8-inch screen (up from 7.6 inches), similar to the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold. The weight savings and thinness make a big impact on a folding phone because they've historically been heavier and thicker than candy bar phones, but that's no longer the case.

Samsung still claims this phone is more durable despite slimming it down, thanks to the use of Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 that embeds ceramic crystals into the glass to strengthen it, much like Apple's Ceramic Shield on iPhones. The hinge is also supposedly more durable with less creasing visible on the screen at the fold point.

Outside of the physical changes, the Fold7 is one of the first to run Android 16 natively out of the box. It's powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and 12 GB of RAM, like the flagship Galaxy S25 series. It has the same 4,400-mAh battery capacity as last year's Fold6. The main camera now sits at 200 megapixels, like the S25 Ultra, joined by a 10-megapixel telephoto that offers 3x optical zoom and a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera. The main 10-megapixel selfie camera on the inn...