Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 features revealed by FCC — including S Pen

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 features revealed past FCC — including S Pen

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Plenty of rumors accept been circulating about the Samsung Milky way Z Fold three over the past few months, and now it looks like one of the biggest may take just been confirmed.

The upcoming foldable has just been certified by the FCC, every bit all phones must do before they're able to proceed auction in the U.South. That process involves documents to exist submitted to the regulator, detailing a device's various functions and features. Including the long-rumored S Pen support.

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Two unlike Galaxy Z Fold three models were submitted to the FCC for certification, the SM-F926U and SM-F926U1, and the supporting documents have revealed what nosotros should expect from the phone itself.

A lot of the stuff is pretty standard, and exactly the kind of features we'd expect from a premium Samsung smartphone. Support for mmWave and sub-6 5G, Wi-Fi half dozen, UWB, Bluetooth, NFC, and so on. But there are also things we either didn't know about earlier, or never had whatever sort of tangible evidence for.

So the documents have revealed that the Z Fold 3 volition offer 9W Qi wireless and reverse wireless charging. That'south a slight dip from the 11W wireless charging speeds bachelor on the Milky way Z Fold ii, and it's not articulate what the reason is or the dip in speed.

Most chiefly, withal, is that the documents confirm the Z Fold 3 will indeed come with S Pen support — nailing another nail into the Galaxy Note 21'due south coffin. It besides confirms that the Z Fold 3 volition have a digitizer function that uses anterior coupling to allow South Pen functionality.

In other words, the rumors that Samsung had to redesign the S Pen's underlying technology so it was compatible with the flexible glass screen expect to exist simulated.

The simply question remaining is whether the Z Fold iii will come with an S Pen, like the Galaxy Note range, or if information technology volition be a separate buy like the Galaxy Note 21 Ultra. If it'south the latter, information technology would too likely mean that the Z Fold 3 volition not take a defended S Pen slot. The FCC documents characteristic no illustrations of the phone, and don't offer any clarification on the matter.

Samsung Milky way Z Fold 3: What else to expect

Despite now being certified past the FCC, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the Samsung Milky way Z Fold iii. Rumors accept given united states of america an thought of what to wait, but they're not about equally trustworthy.

However, rumors point that the Galaxy Z Fold iii may come up with a half-dozen.2-inch exterior display and a seven.v-inch interior foldable display. Each would have a 120Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ support.

Information technology's also expected that the telephone will be powered by the Snapdragon 888 chipset, with 12GB and 16GB RAM options, and 256GB and 512GB storage. It's also likely that the phone will have 25W fast wired charging, much like the Z Fold ii did last yr.

On the camera side of things we're expecting to run into a triple-lens main photographic camera array with three 12MP lenses, and a 10MP selfie camera on the exterior brandish. Rumors also claim that there may exist a 16MP under-brandish photographic camera below the larger foldable display. Reports accept indicated that Z Fold 3 will have a 4,400 mAh battery, and an official IP h2o resistance rating — a commencement for Samsung's foldable range.

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