Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 could be many months away

Five more months to go

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If you were hoping to see a newfoldable phonefromSamsunganytime soon you might be out of luck, as a leaker claims that we may not see either theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 3or theSamsung Galaxy Z Flip 3for five months.

That’s according to@UniverseIce(a Twitter leaker with a solid track record), and in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 shouldn’t be much of a surprise, given that theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 2was only unveiled in August, but it’s more disappointing for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3.

The originalSamsung Galaxy Z Fliplanded in February 2020, so it’s now been around a year since it came out. There was then the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G in July, but that basically just added 5G and a slightly faster chipset, so we were hoping for a proper new model soon.

We may have to wait 5 months to see Flip 3 and Fold 3.February 4, 2021

Of course, this source only says we “may” have to wait five months, so they don’t sound at all certain, but previous leaks mostly suggest we’ll be waiting until the second half of the year for both, so this is in line with what we’ve heard before.

There are some voices of dissent, with one claiming for example thatthe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 could land in June, but that would be almost five months from now anyway, so we certainly wouldn’t expect to see these phones anytime soon.

That also means we might not see another high-end handset from Samsung for a while, as the only other one on the horizon is theSamsung Galaxy Note 21, which isn’t expected before August and which some sources claim isn’t even happening. So if you’re in the market for the best phone that Samsung has to offer, it’s likely to be theSamsung Galaxy S21 Ultrafor quite a while yet.

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James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.

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