The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 is – along with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 – likely to be Samsung’s next major smartphone, and it’s the handset lots of foldable fans have been waiting for.
With talk of bigger screens, a better hinge, and a powerful new chipset, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 could be well worth the wait, but will we have to wait much longer for it to arrive?
Well, Samsung has all-but-confirmed the announcement date now, and it’s fast approaching. We’ve also predicted when pre-orders might open, and when it might ship.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 announcement date predictions
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 will almost certainly be announced on July 9, as that’s when the next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event is.
This event kicks off at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST on July 9, and midnight July 10 in Australia. It will be streamed online and if you’d like to tune in, here’s how to watch Samsung Galaxy Unpacked live.
However, while Samsung has teased the presence of foldables, it hasn’t mentioned the Z Flip 7 by name, so there’s still a tiny chance that won’t be the announcement date.
But our best guess for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 announcement month has always been July anyway, since both the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 and the Galaxy Z Flip 5 were announced in July of their respective release years.
Samsung hasn’t been consistent about when in July, though, with the Z Flip 6 landing on July 10, and the Z Flip 5 landing on July 26.
However, according to South Korean site The JoongAng, Samsung will unveil this year’s model in early July at an event in New York. They don’t get more specific than that, but at a minimum, that would probably mean we’d see it in the first half of the month, and likely earlier than the July 10 date of the current model.
Indeed, Samsung has gradually shifted the announcement dates of its Z Flip phones to earlier in the year, so an earlier date than the Galaxy Z Flip 6 would make sense.
However, the company won’t announce the phone on a weekend, which counts out July 5 and 6, and with July 4 being Independence Day in the US, that seems unlikely, too. So, that leaves July 1, 2, or 3, or July 7, 8, or 9 as possibilities.
But Samsung usually announces new Z Flip models on a Wednesday, which of those days leaves just July 2 or July 9 as possibilities, so one of those two dates would have been our best guess even without now knowing the Galaxy Unpacked date.
Of those, July 9 also looked most likely even before Samsung teased its next Unpacked, because a leaker has claimed that’s the date the Z Flip 7 will be unveiled.
That said, one source has suggested the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 will land on July 10, and we’d expect that on the same day as the Z Flip 7, but given time differences, that launch could still happen on July 9 in some parts of the world.
But at the very least, we’d expect to see the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 sometime in or around July, especially since multiple sources have said it would enter mass production in May, which would likely work for a launch around then, and since the phone has even now been certified in South Korea.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 pre-order date predictions
Samsung opened pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Flip 6 the same day as the phone was announced, and indeed that’s what the company tends to do with its handsets, with the Samsung Galaxy S25 being another recent example of this.
So, while there aren’t any leaks about the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7’s pre-order date yet, we’re fairly confident that you’ll be able to pre-order it on whatever day it’s announced. Which, as noted above, will probably be July 9.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 shipping date predictions
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 shipped exactly two weeks after it was announced, while in the case of the Galaxy Z Flip 5, there was a 16-day gap, and with the Z Flip 4, the wait was 15 days. In all these cases, it was roughly two weeks, so we’d expect to see that pattern repeated again this year.
In which case, assuming the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7’s announcement date is July 9, the phone could ship sometime around July 23.
However, there has been one leak on this front and it suggests the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 won’t ship until August. So we might be waiting a while, but we’re not convinced by this given that it would go against Samsung’s usual patterns.
What about the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE?
As well as the standard Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, we might see a cheaper Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE this year, but notably, this would be the first Z Flip FE model, so we don’t have any history to help us predict when it might release.
There are some leaks, though, with the report from The JoongAng linked above claiming that the FE will probably be unveiled alongside the standard Z Flip 7. They add, however, that there’s a chance it won’t be released until later in the year – perhaps like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, which Samsung teased at the launch of the S25 series, but didn’t fully announce until a later date.
Indeed, another leak suggests the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE won’t be available until the fourth quarter of the year, meaning October, November, or December. So, there could still be a long wait for that particular model.
