Samsung unveils its new line of foldable devices at Unpacked

By SHAWN CHEN NEW YORK AP Samsung introduced several updates to its foldable devices lineup on Wednesday with the new Galaxy Z Fold Z Flip and the new Z Flip FE taking stage at the latest Unpacked event Related Articles Customers seeking deals gave Amazon s Prime Day and competing sales a solid start Could renting be part of the new American dream Musk s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments Trump tariffs goods from Brazil at citing witch hunt trial against Bolsonaro Trump s business blitz produces inadequate deals but lots of uncertainty The Korean electronics company unveiled the upgrades including new versions of their watch in New York but also stated an expanded partnership with Google to inject more artificial intelligence into its foldable lineup Here are the biggest announcements from this summer s Unpacked event A thinner Galaxy Z Fold The Galaxy Z Fold is much thinner and lighter than its predecessors coming in at inch thick when unfolded and less than half an inch folded The new Galaxy Z Fold is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig It also weighs slightly less than half a pound an impressive feat considering the company also increased the total size of the screens from the Fold now inches for the exterior screen and inches for the interior screen The battery limit remains the same as the previous generation But unlike previous generations of fold devices this one doesn t endorsement the company s digital stylus A megapixel camera will act as the main capture and a megapixel camera that extends along the frame of the phone gives users the ability to hurriedly capture wide shots The Fold will retail starting at Pre-orders start in the present day and the device will hit shelves on July The Galaxy Z Flip goes bigger The flippable cousin of the Fold has an enlarged -inch top screen and the clamshell folds down to just over half an inch The inner display grows to inches from the Flip s inches The new Galaxy Z Flip is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig It gets a slightly bigger mAh battery and maintains a megapixel main camera and megapixel front camera A new cheaper version of the phone called the Galaxy Z Flip FE was also declared this day It s a slightly smaller version keeping the Fold s inch screen size of its premium counterpart The Galaxy Z Flip will retail for and the Flip FE starts at Pre-orders for both devices began Wednesday and both will be available generally on July The updated Watch series The Galaxy Watch Ultra Watch and Watch Classic have all been refreshed with various updates memory thickness design but the main takeaway from nowadays s event is that Google s Gemini AI was being preloaded onto the devices Users can access the AI by speaking to their watch AI permeates all of the devices Rick Osterloh Google s senior vice president of devices and services appeared in a pre-recorded video at Unpacked to announce that the AI Mode of its search engine will be used in Samsung s circle to search function allowing users to make quick queries by tapping or circling things on their screen And Gemini will receive further integration with base Samsung device apps like Calendar and Reminders The new Galaxy Z Flip and a smart watch are displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig The new Galaxy Z Fold is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig The new Galaxy Z Flip is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig The new Galaxy Z Flip is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig The new Galaxy Z Fold is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig The new Galaxy Z Flip is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig The new Galaxy Z Fold is displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig Show Caption of The new Galaxy Z Flip and a smart watch are displayed during a Samsung preview event in New York Monday July AP Photo Seth Wenig Expand