While the gradual revelations about the Galaxy Fold 2 are coming out, the latest news has surfaced that Samsung's second-generation tablet-sized foldable will be powered by a 4,500mAh battery

A tweet by the_tech_guy on Twitter includes two screenshots listing the battery components of the new device It is not documented that these batteries will be used in the Galaxy Fold 2, but the tweet itself adds context

Like the original Galaxy Fold, the successor is said to have a 2,090 mAh battery and a 2,275 mAh battery Their total capacity will be 4,365 mAh, almost the same as the 4,380 mAh capacity of the original Fold

Interestingly, minutes after this initial tweet was made, Max Weinbach of XDA Developers retweeted it and said that the Galaxy Fold 2 will have a 4,500 mAh unit; it is unclear where the additional 135 mAh came from, What it does suggest, after all, is that the battery capacity of the next Fold will be about the same or slightly larger than the first device's

The first Galaxy Fold lasted exactly 10 hours and 1 minute in Tom's Guide's battery test (a test that involved loading web pages endlessly over an LTE connection with the screen brightness set to 150 nits and using it until the battery died) This is not a bad result, and if the battery grows a bit in Fold 2, there is a good chance that the new device will surpass this result

However, this news is likely to disappoint those who were expecting significantly upgraded longevity in the upcoming Fold Given that the next Fold will have a 5G modem, something the original Fold lacked, the battery may be under greater stress throughout the day's use than the previous model

The Galaxy Fold 2 is not expected to be seen in person until August or later Ice Universe, a Twitter user who has leaked a lot of information about Samsung's mobile products, reports that Samsung is planning an event on August 5, where it will showcase the Galaxy Note 20, Galaxy Fold 2, and possibly the clamshell We believe that a new variant of the foldable, the Galaxy Z Flip 5G, will also be announced

However, it is more difficult to predict when all of these phones will actually launch; Weinbach believes that the Galaxy Fold 2 may appear in September, which is a long way off from the first generation that was sent to reviewers earlier that spring and then delayed due to a design flaw It would actually fit in quite nicely with the Fold's September 2019 launch