How Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 point to Fushcia OS smart feature phones for 5G in 2020

Samsung is finally going to launch an update to a very strange but clearly popular smartphone in China!

The Smartphone that's being re-launched is the Samsung Galaxy Folder 2, which is basically a flip phone smartphone as noted in the article “Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 is official, launches in China first”, published 08 September 2016 by Vince, GSM Arena. 

This is a follow on to the Samsung Galaxy Folder launched in Q4 of 2013 as noted in my blog article entitled “Samsung launches a third flip Feature smartphone, the SM-W2014”.

Admittedly, I've not been keeping up much with this trend, as I thought it was a Chinese-only smartphone trend that would probably not go beyond China.

I'd hoped the Motorola Razr making a comeback would re-ignite the love for feature rich flip phones being as it runs on android as predicted in my MICO Wars blog article entitled “How Motorola Razr making an Android comeback at Lenovo Tech World”.

However, the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 implies that I’m kinda right; the Samsung Galaxy Folder is still a China-only trend. But can it go global with the coming of 5G?

Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 - Toy Android Flip smartphone phone with kiddie specs

The Samsung Galaxy Folder 2, which measures 122 x 60.2 x 15.4mm and weights 160 grams, consists of two 3.8" WVGA resolution displays folded into the shape of a traditional clam-shell flip phone.

This is the only way in which this smarpthone resembles a regular flip phone, as its specs speak otherwise. It runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow on a 1.4GHz quad-core CPU with a Snapdragon 425 chipset and 2GB of RAM.

Its measly 16Gb storage is expanded using a microSD Card, hopefully the 256GB UFS that Samsung has been touting since July 2016 as reported in my MICO Wars blog article entitled “Samsung’s UFS microSD card Socket may appear in the Samsung Galaxy S7”.

The Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 camera game is somewhat weak; only an 8 Megapixel camera with LED flash and a 5 Megapixel front-facing camera. So too is the battery;  1,950mAh rated at 318 hours of standby.

Fuchsia OS and 5G Networks - Trend towards More Features in a smaller device

Clearly, this smartphone is really taking advantage of the nostalgia over the flip smartphones being touted by Celebrities in the US of A as noted in my blog article entitled “How Celebrities Return of the Flip Phones Herald Smaller Smartphones and Smartwatch phones”. 

Still, it would be interesting if all feature smartphone and flip phones went Android or even Fushcia OS predicted to rise in 2017 as prophesied in my Geezam blog article entitled “Google’s Fuchsia OS to kill Chrome, Android for Women 5G IoT Apps in 2017”.

Such feature rich feature smartphone would be perfect for 5G Networks, especially if paired with Mesh Networks such as Firechat, the future of Telecoms Networks as declared in my  blog article entitled “How FireChat, 5G and Li-Fi means Free Voice or Data Services Network by 2020”.

Feature phone may yet again rise, but this time powered by Google’s Fuchsia OS when 5G Networks rolls out in 2020.