Samsung has been quiet about any foldables it might release this year, but a new rumor sheds a bit of light around plans it might have for its Galaxy Z Flip 6 clamshell foldable.
The successor to last year’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 could use an even older processor than expected. A pair of GeekBench benchmarks tied to the suspected model number of the Z Flip 6 have surfaced: one, which appeared last week, is powered by Qualcomm’s latest-generation Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, while another that SamMobile discovered shows the upcoming phone using a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (which powered last year’s Z Flip 5).
There are a few possibilities for why one phone would appear incognito with two different chipset configurations and codenames (Pineapple for the new silicon with 8GB of RAM, Kalama for the older with 12GB of RAM) on a benchmark site. The first is that Samsung is simply trying out its new hardware with last year’s chip. But it could also be seeing if holding on to the older silicon would be feasible with more RAM, since it would likely be cheaper.
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