Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5/Z Flip5: how to buy in Russia

On July 26, Samsung unveiled its long-awaited new products — the Galaxy Z Fold5/Z Flip5 foldable phones, Galaxy Tab S9 series tablets and Galaxy Watch6/Watch6 Classic smart watches. The company’s devices are a favorite of many in Russia, hence the question —how to buy them.

The company’s devices are a favorite of many in Russia, hence the question —how to buy them.

Retailers M.Video, DTS and MTS have already thought about this question, so they have opened pre-orders for the devices on their websites.

And the conditions are different everywhere. Although the price is not different.

M.Video’s pre-order page offers you to pre-order smartphones. That said, if you scroll down below, you’ll see that you can also pre-order a tablet and a watch. So it’s all pretty conveniently located on one page. There’s also an offer — if you pre-order the devices before August 7, 20 percent of the price will be returned to you as a cashback (only one thing isn’t clear — whether the amount will be returned to your card or in the form of bonuses).

And if you pre-order the devices before August 7, 20 percent of the price will be returned to you as a cashback.

There are many more variations of tablets because some come exclusively with Wi-Fi connectivity and others have 5G:

DNS, unlike M.Video, doesn’t offer any cashback. But if you choose to pay for the pre-order immediately online with a bank card, you’ll get a discount of 25,000 to 35,000 depending on the memory configuration of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5. Which to me is nicer than waiting for the cashback.

You can also get a discount when you buy the Z Flip5, but already in the amount of 14,000 and 17,000 rubles.

With the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9, you can get a discount of between RUB 10,000 and RUB 16,000 for online payment, depending on the model and memory configuration selected.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S9

The Galaxy Watch6/Watch6 Classic can be discounted from RUB 2,000 to RUB 4,000 depending on the model and memory configuration selected.

Sales are scheduled to start on August 18.

MTS has also opened pre-order. And here are quite different conditions, although the starting price does not differ from the above.

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When you buy a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5, you’ll be offered the option to buy a so-called bundle with the Galaxy Watch5 Pro. The price won’t change in any way, it’s just that the watch will come as a gift.

With the Z Flip5, the Galaxy Tab S9 series, the “gift” is no longer a watch, but a Samsung Buds2 Pro. But with the Galaxy Watch6/Watch6 Classic, alas, there’s no gift.

MTS also has a rather interesting “product” — a partial prepayment certificate. This is only necessary if you don’t want to pay for the product in full at once, but still want to reserve it for yourself.

Anything you need is a certificate for a partial prepayment.