The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 brings several key improvements over the Z Flip5. Some are pretty straightforward like using a 50MP sensor in the main camera. Others took some doing. For example, the 2024 model features a larger combined battery capacity of 4,000mAh, compared to the 3,700mAh of the Z Flip5.
It is split between two cells – the main one with 2,870mAh and a secondary cell with 1,130mAh capacity. The Z Flip5 battery was split into a 2,700mAh main and 1,000mAh secondary cells, so the 2024 model managed to pack more into each. You can see them in PBKreviews’ teardown video, here are some screen grabs from that:
Galaxy Z Flip6 main cell: 2,870mAh + 1,130mAh • Galaxy Z Flip5: 2,700mAh + 1,000mAh
Another major improvement this year is the addition of a vapor chamber for cooling the chipset. It’s a fairly large one – it is supposedly larger than the one inside the S24 Ultra. It’s still not large enough, though, in our review we saw terrible performance under sustained load (to be fair, flip foldables typically struggle with this, vapor chamber or not).
Vapor chamber on the Galaxy Z Flip6 • No such thing on the Z Flip5
Now for the video itself:
Interestingly, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 received a slightly higher repairability score than the Z Flip5. The difference is in how easy it is to repair the screens. The addition of particle protection (part of the IP48 rating) could easily have made things tougher.
