Galaxy Z Fold 7 Preorders Break Record For Samsung’s New Foldable Hit

Android users in the U.S. are flipping out over Samsung's newest foldables, at least in comparison to the company's previous-generation folding phone launches. According to Samsung, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 specifically has generated "unprecedented consumer demand" by achieving the highest number of preorders ever for the Z Fold lineup.

That's impressive on a couple of levels, the first of which is the rocky start that Samsung had in the realm of foldables. In its announcement, Samsung points out that it "pioneered the foldable smartphone category more than six years ago," but what it doesn't reminisce about are the early display failures. The situation was so bad that Samsung ended pulling the original Galaxy Z Fold from the market, with its then-CEO calling it an "embarrassing" launch.

To Samsung's credit, it didn't waver from the foldable category, and it's made vast improvements ...