Samsung Unveils Foldable Galaxy Smartphones

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled two foldable smartphones as it continues to bet on devices with bending screens, a budding market that has yet to fully take off because of high prices, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

Photo Insert: Hollywood star Sydney Sweeney, famous for her roles in hits such as "Euphoria," graced one of Samsung's launch events for the Z Flip 5.

The clamshell-designed Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5, a larger device that opens and folds like a book, can be pre-ordered in certain markets including the US and South Korea starting Wednesday.

Built with 6.7-inch and 7.6-inch main screens, the phones have bigger displays than Samsung's previous folding devices and are equipped with more advanced cameras, providing crisper visuals and more features for work, text and video chats, movies, and games, the company said.

Designed to be compact and easy to carry, the Flip 5 is also built with a 3.4-inch cover screen that allows it to be used folded in half.

The phones, which run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor chips, are slightly sleeker and lighter than their predecessors but designed to be more durable and shock-resistant. All that technology comes with hefty price tags.

In the US, Flip 5 will start at around $1,000 while the Fold 5 is set at $1,800.

Samsung, a South Korean technology giant that's also a major producer of computer memory chips, has been the longest provider of folding phones, releasing its first devices in 2019.

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