Samsung anticipates shipping 10 million units mixed with the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and the Galaxy Z Flip 4 this year. The latter is a compact device that features a tiny outer display for messages and notifications. Whenever you need to make a call, open an app, or want to play a game, you snap the screen open to disclose a big smartphone-sized display (6.7-inches on the Galaxy Z Flip 3).
The Galaxy Z Fold 4 will open from an external smartphone-sized display (6.2-inches on the Galaxy Z Fold 3) to a large tablet-sized screen (7.6-inches, on the Galaxy Z Fold 3). While the Galaxy Z Flip is about having a device that easily sits in your pocket until a phone is required, the Galaxy Z Fold is for those who would choose to have a bigger display at their demolition for watching streaming media, for the work-related issues, or some other reason.
Because the Galaxy Z Flip 3 was the more famous of Sammy’s two foldable models last year, the Galaxy Z Flip 4 could hold for 70% of the company’s foldable phone manufacture this year leaving the Galaxy Z Fold 4 to hold for the rest 30% of production.
Samsung wants to ship 15 million Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4
If Samsung does ship 10 million foldable phones this year, such handsets will make up 1% of all smartphones proclaimed all over the world for the very first time. It could be an essential deciding moment for foldable even as pricing still has a long way to deteriorate before foldable handsets become more ambitious when it comes to price. Component pricing needs to fall much more than it has and as years go by, it will.
But for now, Samsung accepts a lower 15% profit margin on its foldable Galaxy Z phones than the 20% margin it aims with the Galaxy S line. By producing a lower profit margin on its foldable, Samsung can price these phones at a figure that is more adequate for buyers.
