Samsung announces the Galaxy Fold in India for Rs 1,64,999, sale to start from 20 October

After a prolonged period in which it was uncertain if the launch was ever going to happen, the Samsung Galaxy Fold has been officially announced in India for a price of Rs 1,64,999. This is the very first folding smartphone to come to the country and with its eye-watering price tag, it is quite obvious that the device will be appealing to only a very niche audience. The Galaxy Fold pre-bookings will start from 11 October while the phone will start shipping from 20 October onwards. [caption id=“attachment_7427111” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Galaxy Fold.[/caption] The **Galaxy Fold saga** has been keenly followed by the tech world ever since it was announced back in February to reviewers **finding extreme hardware defects** in the phone to the Galaxy Fold **being recalled** until finally the redesigned version was **announced globally back in September** . Here are the changes that Samsung made to the design of the device.

• The top protective layer of the Infinity Flex Display has been extended beyond the bezel which means that users will not be able to remove it.
• Additional reinforcements have been provided, most likely to the hinge, to better protect the device from external particles.
• The top and bottom part of the hinge has been strengthened with newly added protection caps.
• Metal layers underneath the Infinity Flex Display have been included for protecting the screen.
• The space between the hinge and body of Galaxy Fold has been reduced.

The company is reportedly working on another foldable smartphone that  **is likely to be launched**  next year as a part of the upcoming Galaxy S11 series.

Galaxy Fold specifications

When folded, you’re presented with a very narrow 4.6-inch display that appears very pocketable and easy to hold in small hands. Open it up, however, and you’re presented with a more spacious 7.3-inch display and a massive notch. Oh, and Samsung is calling this an Infinity Flex Display. Specs? We’re looking at a screen resolution of 840x1960 (4.6-inches) or 1536x2152 (7.3-inches), a “7 nm” chipset, a whopping 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of uberfast UFS 3.0 storage. Samsung isn’t saying which 7 nm chipset it’s using so we can assume that there will be two variants, one running a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip and one with a Samsung Exynos one. You get not 2, not 3, but 6 cameras on the device. Three of these are on the back, two on the front of the 7.3-inch display and one on the front of the 4.6-inch display. The smartphone is likely to be available in four colour variants — Cosmos Black, Space Silver, Martian Green and Astro Blue.