Samsung joins Android’s worst new trend and hikes prices on an existing phone

Source: Android Authority

TL;DR

• Samsung has raised the US prices of the 512 GB and 1 TB Galaxy Z Fold 7.
• For now, the base 256 GB model is still listed at its original price.
• The move comes in the same week that Motorola hiked prices on various phone models.

In the age of the RAM crisis, phone prices creeping upward is becoming an irritating little theme this week, and Samsung now seems to have picked up on the idea. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 was already a wallet‑bruising purchase, but the company appears to have quietly raised the US price of two models anyway.

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As 9to5Google spotted, Samsung’s US product page now lists the 512 GB Galaxy Z Fold 7 at $2,199.99 and the 1 TB model at $2,499.99. Those are both $80 higher than their launch prices, which were $2,119.99 and $2,419.99, respectively. The 256 GB Galaxy Z Fold 7 is still showing at its original $1,999.99 price, so Samsung seems to have limited the bump to the two higher‑storage tiers rather than nudging the whole range upward.

That still leaves you paying even more for what was already one of the priciest phones around. An extra $80 is not enormous in the context of a $2,000‑plus foldable, but it is still a noticeable post‑launch hike, especially when nothing about the phone has changed, and we’re expecting a successor in a couple of months.

This also lands against the backdrop of the wider memory crunch. Samsung hasn’t said why these two Fold 7 trims got more expensive, and the RAM logic isn’t entirely obvious from the specs alone: the 256 GB and 512 GB models both come with 12 GB of RAM, while only the 1 TB version steps up to 16 GB. Still, with Motorola having raised prices on several phones just yesterday, this may be another sign that component pressure is starting to show up in retail pricing.

If you were already eyeing a Galaxy Z Fold 7, these rising prices aren’t likely to sway you toward purchase. And if this does turn out to be part of a broader pricing shuffle tied to the RAM situation, Samsung may not be the last company to quietly make premium phones even pricier. If it softens the blow, you can actually buy one colorway of the 256 GB model for $1,599.99 on Amazon at the time of writing.