{"id":6131,"date":"2025-07-18T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6131\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:25:10","slug":"galaxy-z-fold-7-vs-fold-6-charging-test-same-specs-different-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6131\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Z Fold 7 vs Fold 6 charging test: Same specs, different results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s new Galaxy Z Fold 7 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/2025\/07\/09\/galaxy-z-fold-7-official-worlds-lightest-foldable-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">larger, slimmer and lighter<\/a> than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, but the 2025 foldable flagship has the same dual battery capacity of 4,400mAh and the same 25W wired charging speed as the Galaxy Z Fold 6 from last year. The question is, do these phones charge at the same rate in the real world?\n<\/p>\n<p>To answer this question, our friend Ben from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@LoverOfTech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Lover of Tech<\/a> performed a full battery charging test with the two foldable phones side-by-side, as well as the Galaxy S25 Ultra for good measure. The results might surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>First things first, as Ben shows in the video below, the batteries inside all three phones are at 100% health, so the results were not affected by any battery degradation, despite each phone having a different battery cycle count.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSimilar on paper but different in practice\n<\/p>\n<p>As for the results, the Galaxy S25 Ultra charged its 5,000mAh battery the fastest with a 45W charger, but it was much slower than usual, which may have been an anomaly.\n<\/p>\n<p>More to the point at hand, here is how the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Fold 6 compare. These were their battery levels recorded at 15-minute intervals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n15 minutes: 29% on both Folds (and the S25 Ultra).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n30 minutes: 54% on Galaxy Z Fold 7; 54% on Galaxy Z Fold 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n45 minutes: 74% on Galaxy Z Fold 7; 70% on Galaxy Z Fold 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n60 minutes: 89% on Galaxy Z Fold 7; 85% on Galaxy Z Fold 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n75 minutes: 95% on Galaxy Z Fold 7; 93% on Galaxy Z Fold 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy Z Fold 7 reached 100% battery charge in nearly 1 hour and 26 minutes, whereas the Galaxy Z Fold 6 finished charging in 1 hour and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>What we have learned is that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 charges slightly faster than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, despite both phones having similar battery specifications and charging speeds.\n<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the Galaxy S25 Ultra charged a lot slower than usual, which shows that you can&#8217;t always rely on charge times being consistent. Anomalies can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Ben&#8217;s video below some interesting data regarding temperatures while charging, and once again, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 beat the Galaxy Z Fold 6 by running slightly cooler most of the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below for more information about temperatures and detailed results for all three phones.\n<\/p>\n<p>                            Buy the Galaxy Z Fold 7 early for exclusive bonuses<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"button default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/out\/galaxy-z-fold-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><br \/>\n            Pre-order                    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s new Galaxy Z Fold 7 is larger, slimmer and lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3585,3586,3587,59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-galaxy-s25-ultra","tag-galaxy-z-fold-6","tag-galaxy-z-fold-7","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}