If we have been guessing, we’d have mentioned the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 would in all probability be land in August 2023. In spite of everything, the final two fashions of the previous and three fashions of the latter have been introduced in August of their respective launch years. However a brand new leak suggests this 12 months’s Galaxy foldable telephones would possibly truly arrive ahead of anticipated, in July.

This comes from leaker @Tech_Reve (opens in new tab), who – posting on Twitter – claimed that Samsung often begins mass-producing hinges for its upcoming foldable telephones on the finish of June, however that this 12 months it’s going to begin at the start of month, as an alternative.

They recommend that, consequently, it’s doable the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5 will likely be introduced in July reasonably than August.

Samsung Electronics often begins mass manufacturing of foldable telephone hinges on the finish of June, however this 12 months they may begin mass manufacturing at the start of June.It is also doable that the Galaxy foldable will likely be launched in July this 12 months.April 20, 2023

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That mentioned, this launch date declare appears like hypothesis, and there might be different causes for Samsung’s early begin on hinge mass-production (if Tech_Reve’s claims are certainly true).

SamMobile (opens in new tab) – which noticed the leak – makes the purpose that we’ve elsewhere heard Samsung is utilizing a brand new hinge design for these telephones, so it might merely be that the corporate desires extra time to fabricate these extra fashionable hinges. That might make sense, because it is likely to be a extra concerned course of or be extra open to points than with the present hinge design discovered within the Flip and Fold 4.

Through which case, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 would possibly nonetheless land in August, as beforehand anticipated.

What else is coming?

After all, that too is simply hypothesis, but when Samsung does launch these telephones early then it raises the query of what vital launches the corporate would have all through the remainder of the 12 months.

If there’s nothing else then the corporate might have a protracted empty stretch earlier than the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S24, which we’d not see till February 2024. There’ll seemingly be a Samsung Galaxy S23 FE in some unspecified time in the future, however that’s not a lot to hold half a 12 months on.

Shifting past telephones, there’s additionally the anticipated Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 sequence to think about, however this line of wearables has typically landed alongside Samsung’s foldables, in recent times. In order that begs the query of whether or not the Galaxy Watch 6 would even have an early July launch, or land individually in August (or later).

With all that in thoughts, for now we nonetheless reckon August is the most certainly launch month for the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5. That offers the Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence extra respiration room and extra evenly spreads out Samsung’s flagship telephone launches than a July launch would.

However we will’t rule out July both, particularly as with elevated competitors this 12 months from new rivals – just like the upcoming Google Pixel Fold – Samsung would possibly wish to get its personal foldables out the door early.