Let's stipulate something up front — we need to have more inexpensive foldable phones for people to choose from when they're deciding which device to upgrade to. A foldable handset gives us the luxury of a bigger screen that's easier to tote around. And if the prices of those devices drop, it widens the potential audience for foldables.
Right now, that's not happening. If you want to buy a foldable phone for less than $1,000, you're pretty much stuck with one style of device — the foldable flip phone — from one phone maker. That's no knock on either the $999 Motorola Razr Plus (2024) or the $699 Motorola Razr (2024) , which both rank among the best foldable phones available.
But they could use some comparatively priced competition, and shoppers could use more choices. Which brings us to Samsung, a long time leader when it comes to developing foldable phones. Samsung offers two different foldables, which have both been around long enough to see multiple iterations.
But the latest versions — the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 — actually went up in price over their predecessors. That's the opposite direction of what we want here. A new rumor suggests that Samsung's about to change its tune, with a cheaper version of one its foldables in the works.
At the risk of sounding overly dismissive, I'll believe that when I'm seated at a Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event, and a beaming Samsung executive is triumphantly holding such a device up on stage. A cheaper Samsung foldab.
