With the launch of any new Samsung cellphone comes the will-they-won’t-they debate round Exynos {hardware}. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 – anticipated to launch in July 2025 – is not any completely different, with new info suggesting that Samsung’s subsequent folding cellphone shall be Exynos powered.
The small print come from a leaker who has given us helpful info prior to now. Jukanlosreve has taken to X (previously Twitter) to say that the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 will use an Exynos chip, whereas the Flip 7 FE won’t.
We first heard this declare in December 2024, when it was reported by The Elec that Samsung deliberate to make use of its newest {hardware} to energy its compact folding cellphone. Since then it’s emerged that Samsung had wished to make use of Exynos 2500 for the Galaxy S25 household, however the yields weren’t excessive sufficient and it by no means got here to go.
It appears, then, that the Z Flip 7 is the subsequent goal for Samsung, so it would get to make use of the Exynos {hardware} in a major machine, reasonably than transferring on to the next-generation Exynos {hardware} (Exynos 2600), which is anticipated to energy the Galaxy S26 household.
There’s historically been a regional divide to the Snapdragon vs Exynos debate, so these within the US would possibly discover that that is simply an amusing apart that impacts the remainder of the world, however not these in North America.
Samsung has used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon {hardware} in its North American units for the final decade and that’s unlikely to vary. If the corporate sticks to earlier type, we’ll see Exynos in Europe, whereas China and USA nonetheless get Snapdragon.
As to the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, hearsay means that that is going to be principally a Z Flip 5 with up to date {hardware}, permitting Samsung to supply a less expensive folding cellphone to compete with the likes of the Moto Razr 2025.
Beforehand it was reported that the Z Flip 7 FE can be powered by the Exynos 2400e, however now evidently this mannequin may be flipping again to an older Snapdragon chip, doubtlessly the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
The following-generation of Samsung’s folding telephones are anticipated to be introduced at a bumper Galaxy Unpacked occasion, which rumor suggests will happen in New York in early July. That occasion ought to reveal the Galaxy Z Fold 7, the Galaxy Z Flip 7, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE; it’s additionally anticipated that we’ll see the Watch 8 and Watch 8 Basic, and there could possibly be some extra particulars on the Venture Moohan headset and probably Samsung’s sensible glasses.
It could possibly be a really busy summer season for Samsung.