Get your first (low-resolution) look at the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2

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  The low-rez official image. [credit: Ice universe ]

Samsung is cooking up a sequel to its nearly $2,000 foldable tablet/phone hybrid, the Samsung Galaxy Fold. Well-known Samsung leaker Ice universe posted the first official render, albeit in a blurry, low-resolution form, but it's good enough to get some information out of.

The photo shows two Fold2's stacked on top of each other, with the top one showing the inner screen while the bottom one shows the front display and the rear camera. The first detail we can make out in the picture is the new branding for Samsung's foldable smartphones. The Fold2 is actually the "Galaxy Z Fold2," a name that reflects "Galaxy Z" as the new catch-all sub-brand for foldable smartphones, just as "Galaxy S" denotes the non-folding flagships. This change is already sort-of live on Samsung's site, where you'll see the old Galaxy Fold one listed under the unified "Galaxy Z" page, along with Samsung's second, smaller foldable, the Galaxy Z Flip.

The best news from this image is the bigger front screen, which looks to nearly fill the front of the device, just like a normal smartphone. The original Galaxy Fold had an abundance of problems that will hopefully be corrected with the sequel, and one of them was the tiny front display, which only covered about 50 percent of the front. By Samsung's own admission, the device was supposed to be a smartphone when closed and a tablet when open, but the tiny front display wasn't big enough for normal smartphone duties. Typing on the tiny keyboard was difficult, and the screen wasn't even big enough to fit a normal home screen with a 4-wide grid of icons. The bigger front screen will make the front of the device a lot more useable, which is crucial in a foldable for any on-the-go usage, quickly replying to a text message, or checking notifications.

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