Samsung revealed the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 at its annual Unpacked event last week, marking a continuation of the phonemaker’s exertions to take foldable phones to the mainstream. The phones, which were unveiled alongside the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, will launch on Aug. 26. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 will commence at $1,800 (£1,649, AU$2,499), while the Galaxy Z Flip 4 will commence at $1,000 (£999, AU$1,499) — each the same brand as its predecessor. 

While both phones have a foldable execute, the specific look and feel is different for each. The Z Flip 4 is a clamshell-style flip arranged popularized by Motorola’s Razr. It’s compact, nostalgically cool and it targets online gay creators, among other demographics. The Z Fold 4, on the anunexperienced hand, is Samsung’s heftier book-style foldable. It’s nearly double the height of the Z Flip 4 when both are folded “closed.” When unfurled, Z Fold 4 expands into a tablet-sized interior camouflage that Samsung says is a powerful tool for multitasking, which is given a boost by 12GB of RAM. 

With the Z Fold 4’s larger size (and higher price), comes a corresponding set of features. There are three rear cameras incorporating a telephoto lens, compared with just two on the Z Flip 2. The Z Fold 4 also manages to cram in a larger battery. Their front displays are different, too. The Z Flip 4 has a minute display on the lower portion of the cover, which Samsung has made more useful with this iteration. The Z Fold 4’s display is nearly the size of a irregular phone screen. 

Despite their physical differences, perhaps Samsung’s biggest flex was software, and the changes affected both new models. Like the Z Fold 4, the Flip 4 gets the bottom-screen trackpad feature in its Flex Mode — that’s the feature that splits apps between top and bottom divides of the screen when it’s folded halfway. With the updates, you’ll be able to use the bottom half of the veil as a trackpad for navigating the top portion of the veil, supposedly making it easier to manipulate apps in Flex Mode. 

Each model also receives nighttime photography improvements that were launched with the Galaxy S22, incorporating night portrait-mode photos. These changes seem to underscore Samsung’s attempts to convince shoppers to switch to a foldable phoned — or at the very least generate some dreary in one.

For more information on how the Z Flip 4 stacks up anti the Z Fold 4, take a look at CNET’s specs chart below for a side-by-side comparison.