Will Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 Take Foldables Mainstream?

Leonard has been skeptical about the foldable category for years, but 2024-2025 has brought about devices that are starting to reach a level of technical and design maturity, he felt compelled to compare notes with long-time foldable user and reviewers, Prakash Sangam of Tantra Analyst.

Samsung was good enough to let Leonard and Prakash take the new Galaxy Z Fold7 foldable smartphone for a test drive.

In this episode of the neXt Curve reThink podcast, Leonard and Prakash share their initial impressions of Samsung’s latest premium smartphone that is going up against tough competition from Chinese OEMs.

Watch and find out about the technical innovations and improvements in the usability and user experience of the Galaxy Z Fold7 that could finally break foldable smartphones into the mainstream.

Prakash and Leonard cover the following topics in their review of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7:

• The unveiling of Galaxy Z Fold7 at Galaxy Unpacked (Unfold) 2025 in Brooklyn
• Off to a great start - record pre-orders for the Fold7 and Flip7
• Great thermal engineering and Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy
• What worked and didn't work with the Galaxy Z Fold7
• Improvement opportunities for Galaxy Z Fold8
• The formula for good agentic AI and recommendations for Galaxy AI
• Will Galaxy Z Fold7 take foldable smartphones into the mainstream?

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Check out Prakash Sangam and his research at Tantra Analyst at www.tantraanalyst.com. Also check out the Tantra's Mantra Podcast. 

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Transcript

0:06

Next curve.

Leonard Lee: 0:09

Hi everyone. Welcome to this next Curve Rethink podcast episode and our contact series, uh, where we talk about and break down the latest tech and industry events and happenings, and in this case, devices that matter, into the insights that matter. And I'm Leonard Lee, executive Analyst at Next Curve. And in this next Curve Rethink podcast, we're going to be sharing takes from. Our use of Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold seven. Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon, a elite for Galaxy. Wow. That was a mouthful. By the way, that's an SOC system on Chip, and I'm joined by my good friend and fellow analyst and collaborator. Prakash Sanga. Principal Analyst at Tantra Analyst. How's it going? Prakash?

Prakash Sangam: 1:00

Pretty good. Leonard, glad to be back on the show again.

Leonard Lee: 1:03

Yeah, yeah. And I'm sure you're really anxious to share your perspectives on Always, I'm

Prakash Sangam: 1:09

always to share my perspective. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody wants to

Leonard Lee: 1:12

hear. I know. I'm really interested in getting your take. But before we get started,, please remember to like, share, react, and comment on this episode. Also, subscribe here on YouTube and on buzzsprout. Listen to us on your favorite podcast platform. Opinions and statements made by my guests are their own and don't reflect mine or those of next curve. And we're doing this to provide an open forum for discussion and debate on all things consumer, electronics, tech, cloud, ai, and quantum computing. So with that. Let's get started. What do you say? Oh, that

Prakash Sangam: 1:48

was an impressive disclaimer,

Leonard Lee: 1:51

but hey, let's start off with a little bit of history, so mm-hmm. Samsung Galaxy Unpack, which you propose should be renamed, unfold. Right. 2025 or took place in Brooklyn, New York about three weeks ago now, right? Yep.

Prakash Sangam: 2:08

Yep.

Leonard Lee: 2:08

And I noticed that you received a test or a trial device, and that just happened to be Galaxy Z fold seven. Indeed. Basically on the day of the event, right? Yes, indeed. Yeah. I also got mine. Mm-hmm. So the folks at Samsung were nice enough to. Send me a test unit as well, which I'm gonna be, I ha have been using for over a week now. But, uh, just wanted to compare notes, man. Absolutely. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. So what

Prakash Sangam: 2:38

start? I'm, I am, almost ready with my review, article. I'll be coming soon in the next couple of days. Okay. So, yeah, I'm ready to answer your question. Okay. So every I usually, yeah. Yeah. And I usually don't, Publish my reviews, just, trying it out. I try to use it as a daily driver for at least couple of weeks, in this case, three weeks so that I, I use it as a regular device, not just a test device. So, yeah,

Leonard Lee: 3:05

I think we might wanna, kick things off with this because, the Samsung folks, announced this morning that. The, galaxy Z fold as well as the flip, fold seven have done pretty well, actually out of the gate, so, right. Yeah. They had a press release. Some of the details there, at least the ones that are relevant for the Galaxy Z fold seven, were, related to the pre-orders uhhuh, which I guess were the highest in history. Yep. Or at least in, in the history of that portfolio. Demand apparently continues to be strong and yeah. Output pace is the previous generation by, yeah, 25%.

Prakash Sangam: 3:43

Yeah. It's impressive. Yeah, because typically smartphones are flat, right? So Yeah. Yeah. Market is flat.

Leonard Lee: 3:52

Yeah, it is, it's, a bit, anemic at the moment. Mm-hmm. And, so the Galaxy Z fold seven is also outpacing as previous model by nearly 50% since availability on July 25th. So looks like, it's starting off pretty well. I mean, as many folks probably know the fold. Foldable category has been a niche category for quite some time, in fact, years. And I'll just tell you why I'm interested. I was interested in getting my hands on this. This is my first fold, believe it or not. Okay. Okay. Because before then, I didn't even really think this mattered. Right. And the reason why I think this is really important is because when we went to EFA last year, right, we saw honor and Huawei. Unveil a number of foldables that were really eye-opening. Right. And my interest in this is, largely technical and how they engineered. Now these ultra thin, ultra light, foldable. So it's a little bit of context of why I was really keen on getting my hands on this and checking it out.

Prakash Sangam: 4:59

Yeah. And I think, you know, as separate now, and if you look at the history of folds I've been using since four, four, I've been a big fan. But this is a. Much larger, much significant, almost magnitudes kind of, upgrade, right? Yeah. Compared to the previous ones. And, and it comes in, it basically, as I'm saying it in my article, it's an no, it's a no compromise. Foldable FAU or ft or foldable tablet or whatever you want to call it. Mm

5:32

mm-hmm.

Prakash Sangam: 5:33

We're, there are good use cases, especially productivity use cases. But they all come with a compromise that you might be using it this larger display, the for know, tablet, a display maybe 10% of the time, 15% of the time in a day. Yeah. Yeah. More lower, more or less of that sort. But you still had to carry this extra baggage, extra weight, and a thick brick like thing in your pocket all the time, right? Mm-hmm. A lot of people were not ready to make that compromise for this only 10 to 15% of utility, which a lot of them agreed they needed it. So,

6:11

yeah.

Prakash Sangam: 6:11

Which I think is totally removed now. You get a standard flagship. Smartphone most of the time when you're using it. But when you need it, it is a tablet, an external tablet. Yeah.

Leonard Lee: 6:25

Yeah. And one of the things that really astonished me, and I know you did a comparison to some of the competing models from other OEMs, is how thin mm-hmm. Looked, when it was presented at Galaxy Unfold. Yeah. 2025. Yeah. Hinted. Samsung. And that's what really caught my eye was how thin it was. Yeah. And, now that I've been using it, I, I'm really astonished at how cool. It runs.

6:59

Mm-hmm. And that

Leonard Lee: 7:00

thermal design of this particular, phone is pretty remarkable because, one of the things that I've noticed with iPhone even right, mm-hmm. Is that if you run, let's say you're not even playing games, you're just doing productivity or just web browsing. Sometimes the phone can get rather hot, right? Mm mm But because of these new. Thin designs, it seems like there may be some thermal advantages as well as some unique engineering techniques that Samsung use to dissipate the heat, but this thing runs cool. Yeah. For most of the workloads and applications that I've been using and I've been using, I'm, I've been using it quite extensively over the last week and a half, and that's one of the things that really stuck out for me. And so I, one of the things that I did write about. Was undoubtedly there's gonna be some credit due to Snapdragon eight Elite and the power efficiencies of their, CPU cores as well as their MPU, um, mm-hmm. And just overall, the power efficiency. Of that SOC. And so it's something that I will probably need to dive into a bit more, but it's something that is very evident as I've been using this device. Kudos to the Samsung engineering team for really, delivering on something that, it seems pretty performant, but more importantly, it has some nice, thermal characteristics that, make prolonged use. Of the device comfortable because sometimes, these things can get uncomfortable. They can get too hot. Yeah. You know,

Prakash Sangam: 8:36

the, and the affordable venue. You, a lot of the intense use cases you use, it unfolded uhhuh, so that use in extra area. For, dissipation of that as well. Dis right. Yeah. So that, but

Leonard Lee: 8:49

here's the curious thing though. They done,

Prakash Sangam: 8:52

yeah. Yeah. And then pretty good when they're, they, they discussed that during, in some detail, and I think they had a couple of blogs on it as well, wherein the material they've used. Is basically very thermally efficient and they're using, and it is not just titanium that they used elsewhere. It is an aluminum and mixed Alli and also the, the display. It is not just pure plastic display. There's some element of, glass in it as well. So if you can, you basically see a noticeable difference between the previous force and this even in your unfolded display. But one of the observation that when you're opening the folded, it looked the plastic kind of a display, not, crest Yeah. Plastic high end, but you don't see that much with, four seven.

Leonard Lee: 9:42

I mean, I have to, uh, you know, it still looks plasticky, I mean, correct. Yeah.

Prakash Sangam: 9:47

I'm saying yeah. Yeah. And the way one, the one way I compare that is compare how something looks on outside display and when you open it and how it looks. Used to be a huge contrast between those outer and inside display, but no longer. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, it is a plastic display, but the point is how much, how plasticy it is. It looks, it feels and looks is required. Yeah.

Leonard Lee: 10:17

Yeah. Yeah. And so why don't you share maybe a few bullet points on some of the things that really stood out for you, about the device, right. Maybe not the usage quite yet. Maybe we'll talk about that in a moment. But in terms of the device itself, so I mentioned thermal, that really has stuck out for me. Yeah. What are some of the other things that the audience should probably tune into as they're evaluating the device?

Prakash Sangam: 10:42

So obvious. I mean, the big thing is weight. I mean, I've been using food and then it was a constant reminder that you have a huge brick in your pocket and you're, when you're walking around, right? You don't have that absence is, I think it is more to be experienced rather than explained in my view. When you're using it. Yeah. When you're moving from, a standard, smartphone user to this mm-hmm. You don't see that difference. And that is the main point. But if you're a previous four user, you see that difference, you know very well. Right? Yeah. One of the things in

Leonard Lee: 11:20

terms of the device that I thought wa was a little bit weird. Okay. Word is that camera bump. It's massive.

Prakash Sangam: 11:28

Yeah.

Leonard Lee: 11:29

And, here's the thing, it is a very, very thin device. Yeah. Especially when it's open for my hands. It sometime is difficult to handle because it's so thin. And for those of you who do actually have an opportunity to mess around or check out the device, Than's something you'll notice. So folks with bigger hands are probably gonna have a, maybe a little bit of a challenging time. Handling the device, and not dropping it. I've almost dropped it on several occasions. But this also makes for a weird experience because it's very difficult to just, put this on the, on a countertop or a table mm-hmm. With the screen face. Right. Yeah. You have to have it

Prakash Sangam: 12:10

down. That I agree. So when I looked at it, initially handled it since this, the camera bump is thicker. Yeah. I was thinking it is, the center of gravity is higher and it would topple much easier. Yeah. But I, I did not find it, maybe the balance that properly, that the center of gravity is not very high. So. Yeah.

Leonard Lee: 12:31

And, and this, yeah. And this is not picking on Samsung. Yeah. Because all of the offerings are like this because they've been trying to incorporate, premium grade and premium, performance. Yeah. Cameras on these things. So whether it's a honor opo, you have. These ridiculous, quite honestly, ridiculous camera bumps. I mean, this tends to be a lot, a smaller profile than some of the other, the Chinese correct. Chinese have

Prakash Sangam: 13:00

offered compared because like how, if you look at it is the whole. Top end of the back, right? Yeah. Yeah. And agree with you when you, when you, when you put it on a countertop. Yeah.

13:11

It's waffle the crazy

Prakash Sangam: 13:13

and it's very ly ly. And then it, it's little bit, but here's the nice, yeah. And then one thing I have complaint is, I explicit to Samsung, folks as well, slippery this. The phone is very slippery and most of, yeah. Today's phones are right? Yeah. I think if they put a textured side to it, I think they can stop almost 50% of the false. When you are trying to open the phone unfold, it becomes a little bit clumsy. And because it doesn't have, indentation inside, that makes it easier. So you have to depend on the and know grip to open it up.

13:54

Yeah. Yeah.

Prakash Sangam: 13:55

If you don't have grip, and it is so slippery. I think the chances of, dropping it are very high because it's slippery and the edges are square that gives some grip compared to a totally rounded edges. But it is still, slippery to hold in my view. Yeah, and

Leonard Lee: 14:11

that, that's why I like, some of the materials that Lenovo uses on their flips, in particular, the grip is you get a really sturdy grip and they use. Grip friendly, materials. Right. Texture materials. Yeah. But, the other thing I like about the screen is that instead of this, like eye candy, saturate, oversaturated, mode that they typically ship their smartphones mm-hmm. With, it's much. More toned down and mm-hmm. Color accurate. Right? And when you're taking photos or videos, what you see on screen is mu much more representative of what you're actually seeing in your physical environment, right? And the lighting in the environment. And so I think that's a big improvement. And that's the challenge I've, I had with a lot of the Samsung devices. And quite frankly, most. Android devices. And so I, I noticed that shift, which I think is a positive and for creators, anyone who wants to use it as a creative device is to be much better reference, um, display for them than what we've seen in the past where, the blues are just like, I mean, you can get high off of that stuff, you know, it's just so overdone. Yeah. So that was pleasant, surprise. So good job. Somebody's listening. All right. So yeah, let's talk about usability really quickly. So what were some of the high points in terms of usability thus far?

Prakash Sangam: 15:35

I mean, um, you know, I'm, as I said, I'm a big food user. I think the learning for anybody coming to foldable is how you balance the usage of. Outer screen versus the larger inner screen. It is very natural that the moment you start using the phone, open it up and start, use the larger screen. But I think the battery life, the key is how you balance that for most of the things that you don't need a larger screen, like checking out your email or yeah, checking your text updates and stuff like that. Best to use the outer screen and keep the inner screen for. For the users, you really need it. Any consumption of long form, content, even editing long form and long email writing. Looking at PowerPoints, Excel spreadsheets, editing, and obviously you cannot, creating is hard, but you can definitely edit them much more easily in a better way than any phone, for sure. Right. So. I think, finding, the balance is critical in my point, in my view, for longevity of battery light. If you use the unfolded display, most of the time, you'll definitely have to recharge before end of the day.

Leonard Lee: 16:54

Oh, okay. Yeah. No, I've found that the battery life has been pretty decent and I mostly use, it unfolded. Because I wanna, get used to that mode of using the device. But it seems like the power management is pretty. Good. Yeah, really good. Going back again to my early reference on how the thermals are pretty astounding, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So far, uh, I, I see it as easily in all day battery life device,

Prakash Sangam: 17:28

if you use it as a tablet. Most of the time. Then I think, uh, ities recharge, I mean if finding that balance, I think is key in my view.

17:38

Yeah.

Prakash Sangam: 17:39

Okay. But any other improvements, like notable improvements? Obviously the obvious ones are basically size and shape or the huge ones and, the hinge itself is, hinge and the, for, the crease are much less visible for sure. Yeah. And then, and I see that the hinge was extended quite a lot in the previous ones, which means. If it, in my experience, I, written it about, it as well, if it falls on the, if it falls, usually falls on the corner and it falls on the hinge, then that kind of starts the unwinding of the phone and, the display starts, the plastic display starts coming off and so on. Oh, okay. Now with this. The, the hinge is not that protruding, so I think, it's much more protected. And they mentioned that they've improved, the hinge performance as well. And, and even on, on, when you are handling the phone, it feels more robust, than, before, right? Mm-hmm. The feel of it and biggest improvement when it is not. Is width. The earlier you in all since the fold. First they were very narrow kind of bar Yeah. Folded. It was very hard to type with two hands.

18:59

Mm-hmm.

Prakash Sangam: 19:00

And it's, you know, it was so heavy it was hard to hold in one hand and uh, type, type.

Leonard Lee: 19:07

Yeah.

Prakash Sangam: 19:07

Right. With this, that is gone. But with, since it is now wider, it. The grip is far better than four, six, and single hand usage is better, is perfect for the people with average hand like me. And I think there are improvements in the software as well, both from Google and Samsung. I think the best use case of any tablet is. Multi window. Mm-hmm. It's much, much more advanced and you can, arrange resize them. Yeah, yeah. Resize them, whatever you want them make it either a pop up or standing and so on. One suggestion I would, advise, Samsung is make it more intelligent nowadays. Static it have, you have to manually do it. But you can make it more intelligent as well. For example, if I'm typing an email and I'm mentioning an attachment, you know that I'm, I will go check my attachment and my folders and find a file to attach. Maybe opening, my files window so that I can easily search without going and opening it myself or yeah, more making it more, intelligent, placing of these, multi windows and multiple windows. I think that's something they can definitely work on it. Yeah.

Leonard Lee: 20:25

Yeah.

Prakash Sangam: 20:25

I, I think you have to do all the usage and especially with ai. They can look at my usage and make the phone learn to open, you know, based on my usage. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

Leonard Lee: 20:37

No, I think that the OEMs everyone needs to be really thoughtful about the use of the ai. Yeah. And I'll make a real quick comment here about, galaxy ai. And this isn't a, this isn't a knock on Galaxy ai. This is a problem everyone has. If you don't do it right. You get notified all the time. It's like, false alarms in, security and also,, misguided actions. You get annoyed by all these recommendations and offers on the phone for things you don't want done. And it's simply because although the agentic framework you might have theoretically can drive convenient, convenient outcomes or proactivity, that's not always the case. Right, and people will shut the stuff down as so as soon as you start to, the system starts to annoy them with a bunch of notifications. Something I noticed at Apple Intelligence, it's something that I'm noticing with one ui, seven and eight. And where I'm actually turning off notifications and features because I don't want to be bothered. Yeah. And so this is something that I think the industry needs to grapple with is that the overall personalization may actually turn into, and if it's not done well, we'll turn into an inconvenience. And so I, I haven't been impressed with any of these, implementations thus far. I think everyone still has a lot of work to do. But that being said, there are certain AI features that are, let's say, utility base, that are pretty solid and are useful. It's just that, that we're not at that agentic phase yet, right? Where the a, the agents or that agentic framework is able to deliver that level of accurate personalization, that actually. Translates into convenience. And so I'm gonna be interested in, as I'm sure you are in seeing how everybody evolves, this stuff, but, there, my observation is that there's still a lot of work to do, right.

Prakash Sangam: 22:35

It's, everybody's on a learning curve. Right? A learning curve for sure. I'm on the other side. I would rather need more notification than less. So Really. Wow. Which is sometimes, which is overwhelming, but, but I'm actually, I'm happy with, the notification. Some are trivial. The moment I, you know, I'm, I'm hoping the device quickly learns the ones I'm not looking and clicking on, and then not show them in the, yeah. Yeah. But then, and I know, and I'm more curious on learning and using these things. So yeah, I would say I get less annoyed with more notifications, obviously. Okay.

Leonard Lee: 23:15

All right. Well, that's gonna be a choice that every, every individual make. But yeah, one of the things I've noticed, across the board is that. The level of utility is not as high. And, but then there is, there's overdoing it, right? Correct. And the consequences of that is all I'm pointing out, everyone's gonna have a different preference, but,

23:33

correct,

Leonard Lee: 23:34

correct. One of the things I've noticed using the devices that the UI is really not optimized for a lot of applications, surprisingly, like OneNote for, Buzzsprout, some, a lot of these applications that I, I use even LinkedIn in certain. Cases. The UI just is not optimally designed, for these applications and doesn't present things in a way that I feel is efficient. Right. And so there's a, there's still a development curve and a learning curve I think, that is needed. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's, yeah, for those who are buying the device and start using it, it's something you'll notice almost right away. And there's certain applications that simply don't work, at all. I don't know why, but I'm still trying to figure out why.

Prakash Sangam: 24:22

So a lot of times when I'm in the open, forward mode. I use the desktop version for browser because with the mobile version, you don't get, you get the, you don't get the utility of the larger screen because it is, it is still in the phone mode. Right. Yeah, I agree hundred percent. Also with most of the application, the worst is LinkedIn. It's like a larger, you are not really using it is, that's what I'm saying. And it is, it's actually. Waste of large screen that you have because it's basically blown up. So, and no, no battery utility. That same I am. Uh, reason I'm saying, you ought to be judicious in whether you use the open close because you may not send in many applications. You may not gain anything by using it in a open topic. That's true,

Leonard Lee: 25:09

that's true. But not, I also, noticed it on the front facing screen as well. So it, it's not just when you fold it out and, the other thing I noticed also, if you use the camera, there is a, a pretty noticeable lag, especially when you're taking videos or what's being displayed on the device is behind where you're pointing things on the camera. Yeah. Yeah. So, that I think is probably a software update. I don't know. It definitely isn't the hardware or the. SOC because, Qualcomm, you, as you and I know, Qualcomm has some serious chops when it comes to the IPU and all the, image related, compute. So that shouldn't be the problem. There's probably something, some fine tuning that needs to happen, with the software and the operating system. So

Prakash Sangam: 25:54

in terms of overall prices still is a major challenge in my view. Yeah. So, yeah.

Leonard Lee: 26:00

No, that's a great point. I think that's one of the biggest sticking points, and there's not a lot that you can do to reduce the bomb costs, right? That's the challenges as well,

Prakash Sangam: 26:09

in my view. In my view. I mean, it is a ultimate productivity device, right? So, which means the, the biggest market would be enterprises. So. I think, Samsung and carriers, how to make a good case for the enterprises to make it, show the value and then maybe have some financial deals, long-term contracts and such. I think that part of the story is not really told well to the target audience in my view, know. Okay. Even the advertising advertisements and others, it's a great device, but.,$2,000 is a lot of money even for the enterprises. So you have to make a case that how much actually tangible benefits, like how much property it can increase for maybe target specific personas in the enterprises specific functions within the organization and prove it to them that this is the, an improvement you get in productivity. So even if, although you're paying. This much you, the overall TCO is far better for enterprises, so I think that's one key thing Samsung should do with this phone compared to the previous ones because with the previous ones, even when you're ready to give to enterprises and enterprise users, I have known, as I said, I'm only, I may only use this functionality of wire, bigger screen for 10% of time, but do I carry it all of the time? But that is, that thing is gone or that hurdle is gone. So I think, Samsung should do a better job, as, through with carriers or even direct to enterprises, in my view. Okay.

Leonard Lee: 27:45

Yeah. And, my final, thought on this device is, that it's important. It's actually one where we might see. Apple needing to respond with a full before? I didn't think so. This is a different story simply from an engineering perspective, largely from an engineering perspective because one of the things that, has been an outcome of this race toward. Thin and light smartphones has been just amazing innovations in device engineering and, as well as, the, dramatic improvements we've seen in, mobile, computing and in terms of the silicon, right? These devices really raise the bar. And I think Apple needs to take notice whether they come out with a foldable or not. Because what's happening here with the engineering and the technology, in particular, this, the semiconductor, technology is pretty remarkable and is in all likelihood defining the next, generation of, systems. Design for, the smart, the future of the smartphone. I'm not totally bought into this yet. Quite honestly, I'd rather use a tablet, but that's just me. There're gonna be people, like you said, who will use it, and find utility in the foldable form factor. The most important thing for Samsung though, is they've caught up.

Prakash Sangam: 29:17

Yeah. In terms of, technology, I think it's making it much, more impactful. But, yes, 25 Edge is where most of this thin, system technology is tested and produced. Because of four seven, I think guests 27 Edge is kind of lost to China a little bit. But a lot of that technology is moving over. Right. So it's not the first incarnation as such. Sure. And tin technology. Tin tin device, I mean, yeah.

Leonard Lee: 29:46

Is hella thin. Yeah. And you don't need to make it, you don't need to make a slab this thin. This is actually, this is too thin. I wouldn't want glab this thin, uh, quite honestly.

Prakash Sangam: 29:59

Yeah. And it is pretty robust. I was thinking it feels that's what I meant with you. Oh yeah. I was thinking

Leonard Lee: 30:04

amazingly sturdy.

Prakash Sangam: 30:06

Yeah. So it, that it feels sturdy. I was thinking, man, it looks, but it is pretty sturdy. Oh, and then very solid. Yeah. Then I mean, yes, I, I use and review S 25 Edge as well and there is lot of commonality. In terms of technology and that thinness is a step towards foldable. So, yeah. Yeah, I agree with you that, apple has to reply and there a lot of rumors, right? Working on slim phones as well as foldables.

Leonard Lee: 30:31

They gotta figure something out because, those form factor is driving, a type of innovation that

Prakash Sangam: 30:36

affordable, I think, I think because of this price tag and the utility of it, it'll still be a, not a no. It'll still be a very important, high value, high margin, but still a small portion of the market. Z clip seven has the potential to be mainstream. Maybe going for a lot of mainstream phones will be foldable because you get the same. No, with no compromise experience, but in a even smaller form factor. So we'll see. But I agree 4, 4, 7 is remarkable for sure.

Leonard Lee: 31:08

Yeah. So, hey, thanks Prakash for sharing your thoughts on your. Use of the Galaxy Z fold seven to date. And I'm sure you are looking forward to your article. So those of you, who don't know Prakash, follow him@www.tantraanalyst.com. That's where you can find his research and links to his podcast and undoubtedly. Links to his, articles in including the one that he's going to be publishing, that shares his, perspectives and on his use of the Galaxy e fold. Seven. Prash, again, thank you for showing up and, sharing your perspective. And everyone please subscribe to our podcast, which will be featured on the next Curve YouTube channel. Check out the audio version on Buzzsprout and find us on your fav favorite, podcast platform. Also subscribe to the next curve research portal@www.next curve.com for the tech and industry insights that matter. And we'll see you next time.

Prakash Sangam: 32:10

Alright, come bye.