{"id":464672,"date":"2025-12-22T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:17:15","slug":"samsung-wide-fold-rumored-to-rival-apples-foldable-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464672\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung \u2018Wide Fold\u2019 rumored to rival Apple\u2019s foldable next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple\u2019s long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etnews.com\/20251219000227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korea\u2019s ET News reports<\/a> that Samsung\u2019s upcoming \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/samsung\/774247\/first-thin-then-wide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wide Fold<\/a>\u201d is also set to launch in 2026, and will closely mirror the display size and 4:3 aspect ratio of Apple\u2019s first foldable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The machine-translated report says the Wide Fold is expected to feature an OLED display that measures 5.4 inches in its folded position, and 7.6 inches when unfolded. \u201cIt will be a \u2018passport\u2019 type with a 4:3 screen ratio when unfolded,\u201d according to an unnamed industry source cited by ET News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/inside-apples-iphone-road-map-foldable-screens-curved-glass-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Information<\/a> reported that Apple\u2019s upcoming foldable will feature a 5.3-inch display that increases to 7.7 inches when open, and will have an aspect ratio \u201csimilar to that of Apple\u2019s largest iPads when viewed in landscape mode,\u201d and will be \u201cmore wide than tall when unfolded.\u201d Most iPad models sport a near 4:3 aspect ratio. This was the latest rumor that pointed to Apple\u2019s first foldable iPhone having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/apple-fold-foldable-screen-sizes-3526329\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide aspect ratio<\/a> in portrait mode, though Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman said in September that the device would look like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/782366\/foldable-details-iphone-air-ifixit-teardown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two iPhone Airs stuck together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Both Samsung and Apple\u2019s upcoming foldables are expected to launch in Fall 2026. The 4:3 aspect ratio is better for reading e-books and documents, viewing photographs, or creative tasks like design and image editing, but would result in traditional landscape and portrait videos having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSa_t1gjxmn\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ugly black bars at the top and bottom<\/a> of the screen. This is something that\u2019s already noticeable on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/reviews\/709990\/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-7-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung\u2019s squarish Z Fold 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":464673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[239,2160,2020,611,50,2161,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-464672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-foldable-phones","10":"tag-iphone","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-samsung","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115764123653214335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}