Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7
The first Flip whose cover screen runs edge to edge and behaves like a real phone — paired with a 6.9-inch inner display, a bigger 4,300mAh battery, and Samsung's own Exynos 2500 rather than a Snapdragon.
- 4.1-inch edge-to-edge cover screen is the first Flip outer display that genuinely replaces opening the phone
- 6.9-inch inner panel is the largest on any clamshell, at 2600 nits peak with a barely visible crease
- 6.5mm unfolded and 188g — thinner and lighter than most non-folding flagships
- 4,300mAh battery is the biggest Samsung has fitted to a Flip, and GSMArena measured 11:52h active use
- Seven major Android OS upgrades — no other clamshell foldable comes close
- Flex Mode and the big cover screen make it the most genuinely useful phone on the market for hands-free video and selfies
- Exynos 2500 trails the Snapdragon 8 Elite in the Z Fold7 by roughly 25% in AnTuTu and runs warmer under sustained load
- 25W wired charging is unchanged again — about 30 minutes to 50%, and no fast wireless option
- Two cameras only, with no telephoto; 2x zoom is a sensor crop from the 50MP wide
- IP48 leaves the hinge uncertified against fine dust and sand
- $1,099.99 is $300 more than a Galaxy S25 that outperforms it on chipset, camera, and battery
- Inner display is Mohs level 1 — a plastic surface that marks under a fingernail
Android Hire Verdict — The clamshell that finally makes sense
The Z Flip7 fixes the one thing that kept clamshell foldables niche: the cover screen. At 4.1 inches running edge to edge around the cameras, it handles replies, navigation, media controls, and full apps without opening the phone, which changes how the device is used day to day. The trade is a chipset step down to the Exynos 2500 and the same 25W charging Samsung has shipped for years. If you want a flagship that disappears in a pocket and you value form over raw benchmarks, this is the one — if you want the fastest phone for $1,100, it isn't.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 in depth
The cover screen is the whole story
Samsung's previous Flips put a folder-shaped cutout around the camera lenses, which meant the outer display was a rectangle with a bite taken out and most Android apps refused to run on it properly. The Flip7's 4.1-inch panel wraps around the cameras instead, presenting a continuous 948 x 1048 surface at 120Hz and 2600 nits peak.
The practical result is that the phone stops being a device you have to open. Replying to messages with a full keyboard, following turn-by-turn navigation, controlling media, checking a calendar, and framing selfies with the main camera all happen closed. Samsung still gates arbitrary third-party apps behind a toggle, but the officially supported set is much wider than on the Flip6.
This matters for battery too: driving a 4.1-inch cover panel for quick interactions costs far less than lighting a 6.9-inch inner display, and it is part of why the Flip7's endurance improved despite only a 300mAh capacity bump.
Exynos 2500: how much does the chipset swap cost you?
Samsung fitted its own Exynos 2500 rather than the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy that powers the Z Fold7 and the S25 line. It is a 3nm ten-core design — one Cortex-X5 at 3.3GHz, seven A725 cores, two A520 cores — with an Xclipse 950 GPU built on AMD RDNA architecture.
In benchmarks the gap is measurable: about 1.51M AnTuTu against the Fold7's 1.99M, and 7,433 Geekbench 6 multi-core against 9,152. In everyday use — messaging, browsing, camera, social apps — you will not notice it. In sustained load, you will: the Exynos runs warmer, and a 6.5mm clamshell has very little room for a vapour chamber, so long gaming sessions throttle harder than on a bar-style flagship.
The realistic framing is that the Flip7 is a fast phone with a chipset one tier below the best available. If that bothers you at $1,099.99, the objection is legitimate — but the Flip has never been the phone you buy for benchmark scores.
Cameras: two lenses, no telephoto
The Flip7 ships a 50MP f/1.8 main sensor with dual pixel PDAF and OIS, plus a 12MP f/2.2 ultrawide at 123°. There is no dedicated telephoto, so 2x zoom is a crop from the centre of the 50MP sensor — good in daylight, visibly softer indoors and at night.
The compensating advantage is structural: because the phone folds, you can use the main 50MP camera for selfies with the cover screen as a viewfinder, and you can stand the phone half-open on any flat surface for hands-free shots and video calls. Nothing in a bar-style phone at this price does either. In practice the Flip7's best selfies come from the rear sensor, not the 10MP inner camera.
Video tops out at 4K60 on the main camera with HDR10+, and 4K60 on the selfie camera. There is no 8K mode.
Galaxy Z Flip7 vs Galaxy S25: the honest comparison
At $1,099.99 the Flip7 sits roughly $300 above a Galaxy S25. The S25 gives you a Snapdragon 8 Elite, a three-camera system with a real 3x telephoto, faster charging, IP68 sealing, and a glass screen that does not scratch with a fingernail.
The Flip7 gives you a phone that halves in size, a 6.9-inch screen in a body smaller than the S25 when closed, Flex Mode, and a cover display that handles most interactions without opening. Those are form-factor advantages, not spec advantages, and no benchmark will express them.
The decision is therefore not close on paper and entirely personal in practice. If the folding is the point, the Flip7 is the best clamshell sold in the US and comes with seven years of updates. If it is not, the S25 is the better phone for less money.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 benchmarks
GSMArena's tested figures for a retail Z Flip7 with the Exynos 2500. The gap to the Snapdragon 8 Elite is real — roughly 25% in AnTuTu and about 19% in Geekbench multi-core — but the 3DMark graphics result is much closer, so the practical difference shows up in sustained CPU work and thermals rather than in gaming frame rates.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 vs the competition
How the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 compares against the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7, the Motorola Edge 70 Max 5G and the Motorola Razr Ultra (2025) — its closest rivals in our directory.
| Spec | Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 | Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 | Motorola Edge 70 Max 5G | Motorola Razr Ultra (2025) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch price | $1,099.99 | $1,999.99 | €799.99 | $1,299.99 |
| Display | 6.9" foldable LTPO 120Hz | 8" foldable LTPO 120Hz | 6.82" 144Hz LTPO AMOLED | 7" pOLED 165Hz (inner) + 4" cover |
| Chipset | Exynos 2500 | Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy | Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 | Snapdragon 8 Elite |
| Camera | 50MP wide + 12MP ultrawide | 200MP + 10MP 3x + 12MP UW | 50MP OIS + 8MP ultrawide | 50MP OIS + 50MP ultrawide |
| Battery | 4300mAh · 25W wired | 4400mAh · 25W wired | 7100mAh · 90W wired | 4700mAh · 68W |
| AnTuTu 10 | ~1,513,000 | ~1,995,000 | ~2,850,000 | ~1,831,000 |
| Our score | 82/100 | 88/100 | 81/100 | 84/100 |
Launch prices are shown in each phone's primary launch-market currency, so this row mixes currencies — compare the figures against local pricing rather than one another.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 full specifications
Launch
- Announced
- 2025, July 9
- Released
- 2025, July 25
- Status
- Available
Network
- Technology
- GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE / 5G
- 5G bands
- 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 12, 20, 25, 26, 28, 38, 39, 40, 41, 66, 71, 77, 78 SA/NSA; US models add 257/260/261 mmWave
- Speed
- HSPA, LTE, 5G
Body
- Dimensions
- Unfolded 166.7 x 75.2 x 6.5 mm; folded 85.5 x 75.2 x 13.7 mm
- Weight
- 188 g
- Build
- Plastic inner display, Gorilla Glass Victus 2 back and cover, Armor Aluminium frame
- SIM
- Nano-SIM + dual eSIM (max 2 active)
- Durability
- IP48 dust- and water-resistant (solids >1mm; immersible up to 1.5m for 30 min)
Display
- Main type
- Foldable Dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2X, 120Hz, HDR10+, 2600 nits (peak)
- Main size
- 6.9 inches (~88.7% screen-to-body ratio)
- Main resolution
- 1080 x 2520 pixels, 21:9, ~397 ppi
- Cover type
- Super AMOLED, 120Hz, 2600 nits (peak), 4.1 inches, 948 x 1048 pixels
- Protection
- Inner panel Mohs level 1; cover Gorilla Glass Victus 2
Platform
- OS
- Android 16 with One UI 8; 7 major OS upgrades and 7 years of security updates guaranteed
- Chipset
- Samsung Exynos 2500 (3nm)
- CPU
- Deca-core (1x3.3 GHz Cortex-X5 & 2x2.74 GHz Cortex-A725 & 5x2.36 GHz Cortex-A725 & 2x1.8 GHz Cortex-A520)
- GPU
- Xclipse 950
Memory
- Card slot
- No
- Internal
- 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM
- Technology
- UFS 4.0
Main Camera
- Setup
- Dual: 50 MP (wide) + 12 MP (ultrawide)
- Wide
- 50 MP, f/1.8, 23mm, 1/1.57", 1.0µm, dual pixel PDAF, OIS
- Ultrawide
- 12 MP, f/2.2, 13mm, 123°, 1/3.2", 1.12µm
- Features
- LED flash, HDR, panorama
- Video
- 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@60/120/240fps, HDR10+
Selfie Camera
- Single
- 10 MP, f/2.2, 23mm, 1/3.0", 1.22µm
- Features
- HDR; main camera usable for selfies via cover screen
- Video
- 4K@30/60fps
Sound
- Loudspeaker
- Yes, with stereo speakers
- 3.5mm jack
- No
- Other
- High-bitrate audio support
Comms
- Wi-Fi
- 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6e/7, tri-band, Wi-Fi Direct
- Bluetooth
- 5.4, A2DP, LE
- Positioning
- GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, BDS, QZSS
- NFC
- Yes
- USB
- USB Type-C 3.2, OTG
Features
- Fingerprint
- Side-mounted, capacitive
- Sensors
- Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
- Other
- Samsung DeX desktop mode, Flex Mode
Battery
- Type
- Li-Po 4300 mAh, non-removable
- Charging
- 25W wired (QC2.0, 50% in 30 min), 15W wireless, 4.5W reverse wireless
- Tested endurance
- 11:52h active use (GSMArena)
Misc
- Colors
- Blue Shadow, Jetblack, Coralred, Mint
- Models
- SM-F766B, SM-F766B/DS, SM-F766U, SM-F766U1
- Price
- $1,099.99 US launch price (12GB + 256GB), $1,219.99 (512GB); £1,049 UK; ₹1,09,999 India
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 FAQ
How much does the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 cost in the US?
The Galaxy Z Flip7 launched in the US at $1,099.99 for 12GB + 256GB, with the 512GB model at $1,219.99. Samsung and the US carriers discount the Flip line more aggressively than any other Galaxy flagship, so trade-in and promotional pricing frequently brings it several hundred dollars below sticker.
Does the Galaxy Z Flip7 use Snapdragon or Exynos?
Every Galaxy Z Flip7 uses Samsung's own Exynos 2500, including US units — unlike the Z Fold7, which ships with the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy worldwide. The Exynos 2500 is a 3nm ten-core chip that scores roughly 1.51M in AnTuTu, about 25% behind the Fold7, though everyday performance feels comparable.
How big is the Galaxy Z Flip7 cover screen and what can it do?
It is 4.1 inches at 948 x 1048 and 120Hz, running edge to edge around the camera lenses rather than being cut out around them. Closed, it handles full-keyboard replies, navigation, media controls, widgets, camera framing with the main 50MP sensor, and a supported set of third-party apps — enough that most short interactions never require opening the phone.
Is the Galaxy Z Flip7 water resistant?
It carries an IP48 rating: immersible in fresh water up to 1.5m for 30 minutes, but only certified against solid objects larger than 1mm. That means rain and spills are fine, while fine dust and beach sand remain a genuine risk to the hinge — the same caveat that applies to every folding phone currently sold.
How long does the Galaxy Z Flip7 battery last?
The 4,300mAh cell is the largest Samsung has fitted to a Flip, and GSMArena measured 11 hours 52 minutes of active use — comfortably a full day of mixed use, and a clear improvement on the Flip6. Charging is unchanged at 25W wired (50% in about 30 minutes), 15W wireless, and 4.5W reverse wireless.
Does the Galaxy Z Flip7 have a telephoto camera?
No. It has a 50MP f/1.8 main camera with OIS and a 12MP ultrawide, and its 2x zoom is a crop from the main sensor rather than a dedicated lens. Zoomed shots hold up in daylight but soften noticeably in low light. The offsetting advantage is that you can shoot selfies with the 50MP main camera using the cover screen as a viewfinder.
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