Samsung launches W27 foldable in China, top 1TB model priced at 21,999 yuan

Tech company Samsung on Thursday launched a premium smartphone, the Samsung W27, in China. It was unveiled at the 'Heart of the World' event held in the country. The phone's price has drawn attention.

The phone is based on the company's book-style foldable flagship, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra.

The 16GB + 512GB variant of the W27 is priced at 18,999 yuan, or about Rs 2,72,000. The top-of-the-line 1TB storage option costs 21,999 yuan, or about Rs 3,15,000. The phone will be available to buy on Samsung's online store from November 13. It comes in two colours, Jihu Blue and Jixia Hong.

The W27 is a dual-SIM foldable smartphone. It runs the latest One UI 9, based on Android 17. It has an 8-inch QXGA+ (2,504 x 2,256 pixels) 2X Dynamic AMOLED foldable display, with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz and 16 million colours. On the outside is a 6.5-inch full-HD+ (1,080 x 2,520 pixels) 2X Dynamic AMOLED screen with the same features as the inner screen.

The phone is powered by Qualcomm's custom octa-core Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chipset. It has six efficiency cores clocked at 3.6GHz and two performance cores, which deliver a peak clock speed of up to 4.74GHz. The phone also gets up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 1TB of UFS 4.1 onboard storage. The company has not yet confirmed the phone's Ingress Protection (IP) rating.

The phone has a triple rear camera setup. It includes a 200-megapixel (f/1.7) primary camera with optical image stabilisation (OIS), a 50-megapixel (f/1.9) ultrawide camera and a 10-megapixel (f/2.4) telephoto camera. The telephoto camera supports 3x optical zoom and 30x digital zoom. For selfies there are two 10-megapixel cameras, one on the inner display and the other on the outer display.

The W27 has a 5,000mAh battery, which supports 45W wired and 20W wireless fast charging.