Mobile Review: Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 leaked render shows it could ape Galaxy Note 20 design

With a punch-hole and an enormous rear camera

Despite the very fact that it’s probably launching in early August we haven’t seen much of the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 yet, but that would be changing, as a high-quality render has just leaked, showing the phone’s apparent similarities to the rumored design of the Samsung Galaxy Note 20.

The render, shared by @UniverseIce (a leaker with an honest track record), shows the phone with its main display unfolded, so it's very tablet-like, with significant but not massive bezels all around the screen.

There’s also a punch-hole camera, which is an upgrade on the massive notch found on the first Samsung Galaxy Fold; and while its off-center position could seem odd initially, it actually is sensible, because the source points out.

In a second tweet containing another image, they show how once the screen is folded in half that camera position becomes central – and tons just like the punch-hole location on the Samsung Galaxy S20, and what we have seen in Samsung Galaxy Note 20 leaks.

It would also mean the hardware for the front camera is kept out of the way of the rear camera, which within the second image looks to require up an oblong block on the top-right of the handset's rear, again almost like the rumored Note 20 design and therefore the Samsung Galaxy S20 range. And you couldn’t put the front camera within the central a part of the large screen, as that’s where the hinge is.

In all, this is often a design that brings the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 in line with Samsung’s other flagships, so it is sensible that it’s one the corporate would choose. It’s also, as a reply to the tweet shows, roughly an equivalent position because the front camera on the first Galaxy Fold – it just looks stranger without a notch surrounding it.

We would, of course, still take all this with a pinch of salt, especially as we haven’t seen many Galaxy Fold 2 leaked images before this, so there’s little to match it to. But with the phone likely launching in only over a month, we’d expect leaks and rumors to soon start coming thick and fast.

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