Samsung redesigned the wide camera assembly to fit into the Galaxy S25 Edge’s svelte frame.
The stars of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event are rumored to be updates to the Z Fold and Z Flip phones. While I appreciate a good bendable screen, I’m just as interested in the cameras that will be on them. Compared to the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Ultra models, the lenses on the current Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6 feel dated.
For example, both of those phones include a 50-megapixel main camera and a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera; the Z Fold adds a 10-megapixel 2x telephoto. You can still get good photos from them, don’t get me wrong. But if you’re paying a premium for a phone — $1,900 for the Z Fold 6 — I believe you should expect a premium camera experience, too.
The traditional argument for limiting the cameras has been space. Physical room is so premium in a foldable phone that many camera assemblies just won’t fit. But then I look at the Galaxy S25 Edge, which worked in a slimmed-down 200 megapixel f/1.7 camera with the same specs as the main camera in the S25 Ultra, and did it in a thin 5.8mm frame (though the camera bump protrudes to 10mm). Megapixels aren’t the whole story, but having more opens up options such as getting optical-quality telephoto images without invoking digital zoom. And the photos from the S25 Edge are pretty nice.
Hopefully, Samsung will boost the ultrawide cameras in each new phone to at least 50 megapixels and maybe even the telephoto, too. Motorola’s 2025 Razr shows it can be done. Will Samsung match or even exceed these specs? We’ll find out Wednesday.
