Samsung released a limited edition Galaxy Z Flip 5 Retro phone, paying tribute to the 2003 classic phone

CTOnews.com, October 30 (Xinhua)-- Samsung has officially released the Galaxy Z Flip 5 Retro phone, which will be available in South Korea, the UK, Germany, Spain and Australia on November 1.

The Galaxy Z Flip 5 Retro is a tribute to the legendary 2003 SGH-E700 flip phone, a legendary product and Samsung's first phone with a built-in antenna. Because of its excellent design, a Norwegian newspaper called it "the Mercedes-Benz of the mobile phone industry". In the era when Nokia dominated the mobile phone market, SGH-E700 played a key role in promoting Samsung's position in the mobile phone industry.

Galaxy Z Flip 5 Retro features some SGH-E700 elements, such as indigo and silver colors, and designs nostalgic pixel graphics, UI and cityscape animation on its Flex Window outer screen.

Samsung packed the phone in a neat box emblazoned with Z Flip5 and E700 logos, a Flipsuit case with stickers, logo from different ages in Samsung's history, and a Samsung E700 collection card engraved with a unique serial number.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 Retro can only be purchased through Samsung's official website, and official information on pricing has not been provided.

CTOnews.com query found that the current Galaxy Z Flip 5 offers ice mint, cloud shadow ash, ice rose purple, Xinghe white, polar ash, wave blue, mountain green, daylight yellow a total of eight colors, its 8GB+256GB version 7499 yuan, 8GB+512GB version 8499 yuan.

Equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy processor, the phone has an upgraded outer screen size of 3.4in and an inner screen size of 6.7in. The battery capacity is 3700mAh (typical).