It’s not been difficult to excuse collapsing phones as the stuff of sci-fi; even get-togethers turned into reality two years prior. They were too costly, excessively enormous, excessively compromised to bode well for most. Some flips instantly tumbled. Yet, in 2021, a collapsing telephone seems to have recently killed off Samsung’s long-running Galaxy Note — and I’m beginning to contemplate whether they’ll obliterate the leader Galaxy S too.

That is because last month, Samsung promised to make foldable standards. What’s more, at $999, with fewer trade-offs than at any other time, Samsung’s new Z Flip 3 sounds perilously near a total substitution for Samsung’s $999 Galaxy S21 Plus. At a similar cost, they’ve both got 6.7-inch 120Hz AMOLED screens, the most recent Snapdragon 888 processors, similar memory and capacity alternatives, a similar water obstruction, and generally similar measurements, just with a somewhat lighter edge and more modest battery, and one less camera around back.

Except one of these telephones wonderfully overlaps down to a large portion of its size, and the other one doesn’t. Assuming Samsung’s new strength improvements aren’t simply talk, and the plastic-shrouded screen doesn’t feel bizarre, I know which one I’d pick!

Would Samsung truly hatchet its flatscreen Galaxy S for foldable, however? It’s not as fantastical as you may suspect — because following two years selling a ludicrous number of “lead” telephones, the Galaxy S handsets are getting fixed in on all sides.

In 2019, the organization attempted to sell upwards of 10 unique lead telephones throughout the planet, including four distinct Galaxy S10s and four unique Galaxy Notes with generally indistinguishable center specs. 2020 brought 11 different leads, on the off chance that you check the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite. Five lead telephones might, in any case, be an excessive number in 2021 if three of them aren’t selling especially well.

Dislike Samsung would be killing off its smash-hit handsets by dumping the Galaxy S, by the way. The organization’s midrange A-series phones are really its business champs after Samsung declared it would focus on those handsets in 2018. In the meantime, deals of Samsung’s Galaxy S phones have allegedly plunged 47% in the last two ages, with the Galaxy S21 on target to be significant to a greater degree a failure as opposed to the Galaxy S20 was the prior year.

Does Samsung need the Galaxy S anything else than it needs the Galaxy Note? For cell phone lovers who need the best of everything — presently including the capacity to crease out into a tablet — the Z Fold is, as of now, replacing the Note. One year from now, with some camera redesigns, it could hypothetically depose Samsung’s “Ultra” telephones, as well. That could pass on space for the Flip to turn into Samsung’s new default leader, with collapsing as the “Next Big Thing” that Apple doesn’t offer its customers (at least not yet). There’s Samsung’s undeniably amazing Galaxy A series for every other person, which will probably settle the score more aggressively now that Xiaomi has surpassed Samsung in Europe.

On the off chance that it occurs, I’d anticipate a change period: the leader telephone classification actually begins around $700, not the $1,000 that Samsung is requesting the Flip 3, so the organization would presumably keep around a Galaxy S22 FE at the very least. (The Galaxy S21 FE is as yet forthcoming.)

Also, regardless of whether Samsung chooses to deemphasize flatscreen leads, that doesn’t mean the Galaxy S name will fundamentally disappear. It may very well become what Samsung calls its collapsing telephones sometime in the future. Cosmic system S is the brand that carried Samsung into the spotlight over the previous decade, so there’s worth and point of reference to move the name to another plan: when Samsung initially started exploring different avenues regarding bent glass screens, it began as the Galaxy Note Edge, then, at that point Edge adaptations of Galaxy S telephones, and those bends turned into the standard with the Galaxy S8. On the off chance that Samsung makes foldable the new typical, we may see something very similar.

All I know without a doubt: Samsung’s swollen arrangement of leads were getting pretty crazy — remember the Note 10 explicitly for blockchain? — and it shouldn’t be that way.