Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days soaked up astir each of the discounts past week, truthful determination wasn’t overmuch near implicit for the weekend. This week, however, we are seeing a instrumentality to form.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 starts astatine €1,405. This is for a 12/256GB portion and, unfortunately, the 512GB upgrade is inactive rather costly astatine €425 more. Still, a astir €600 discount connected the basal exemplary is thing to sneeze at. But is the caller wide foldable signifier origin amended than the book-style format? Our Galaxy Z Fold8 vs. Z Fold8 Ultra nonfiction goes into the pros and cons of each design.
Speaking of, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra is rather expensive. A couple of weeks ago, it was €1,715 for a 12/512GB unit. Now, adjacent the basal 12/256GB portion is €1,830. If you determine you privation the Z Fold8 Ultra, we’d counsel you to wait. In the meantime, you tin cheque retired our Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra vs. Galaxy S26 Ultra to assistance you prime which exemplary is amended suited for your needs.
You should besides see immoderate alternatives. The Motorola Razr Fold was €1,330 2 weeks ago, present it’s €120 more. That’s inactive cheaper than the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, though. The Moto telephone is thicker (10.1mm vs. 8.9mm) and heavier (243g vs. 215g), but it does person a larger artillery (6,000mAh vs. 5,000mAh). It’s down connected show (Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs. the Elite Gen 5 chipset). However, the camera setup is competitory capable – 50MP 1/1.28” vs. 200MP 1/1.3” main, 50MP 3x/71mm vs. 10MP 3x/69mm telephoto and 50MP 122° vs. 50MP 120° ultra-wide. Both phones are slated for 7 OS updates (but enactment that the Galaxy launched with Android 17, portion Motorola launched its foldable with Android 16).
There’s besides the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold. However, the deficiency of large discounts makes it hard to urge – arsenic if the Tensor G6 unsocial wasn’t capable to disqualify it from the running.
In opposition to the Ultra, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 really improved its terms – the basal 12/256GB exemplary is €10 little than it was a mates of weeks agone and present a 12/512GB variant is disposable excessively with a akin discount.
The vivo X500 Ultra is expected to motorboat successful China successful early 2027. Whether it volition beryllium disposable globally and erstwhile is inactive being decided. So, for present we person the vivo X300 Ultra. It has a token discount of €100 (which isn’t much, fixed its €2,000 MSRP) and it comes with a escaped 100W FlashCharge adapter. It’s not overmuch successful presumption of freebies, but this is 1 of the champion camera phones of 2026 and it is equipped with a generous 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Check retired our video review for a person look astatine the phone.
We’re skipping implicit the Galaxy S26 bid this week. The Galaxy S26 Ultra (12/256GB) is disposable for €1,150, but considering that this aforesaid exemplary was €960 2 weeks ago, we’d counsel you to wait. The Pixel 11 series, meanwhile, has much oregon little retained its prices from that clip – for amended oregon for worse.
The Google Pixel 11 Pro XL is €1,280 for a 16/512GB unit, which is conscionable €10 much than it outgo 2 weeks ago. Either way, the €250 discount doesn’t look astonishing compared to astir €600 disconnected connected a cutting-edge foldable (the Z Fold8). The Pro XL is simply a larger mentation of the Pro, but it does person some advantages similar faster charging and amended speakers.
The Google Pixel 11 Pro is disposable successful some 12/256GB and 16/512GB configurations (note the antithetic RAM capacities). These prices are wrong €20 of wherever they were 2 weeks ago. However, adjacent with atrocious discounts, a Galaxy S26 (12/512GB) is €870. This exemplary was €820 2 weeks ago, truthful the terms hike isn’t astir arsenic atrocious arsenic for the S26 Ultra, but you tin inactive bash better. And the 12/256GB S26 configuration is retired of stock.
€820 tin bargain you a vanilla Pixel 11, by the way. It’s not arsenic bully arsenic the Pixel 11 Pro, but being €150 cheaper than the equivalent Pro exemplary makes the Pixel 11 worthy of consideration. Or you could hold for the S26 to driblet to €820 again.
Apple started accepting pre-orders for the iPhone Duo connected Friday. Pre-orders are unrecorded successful Germany, arsenic good arsenic Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, the US and Vietnam. Shipments volition commencement adjacent week (October 23). That is lone for those who tin spend the monolithic terms tag, of people – the basal 256GB exemplary is €2,300, which is astir €900 much than the existent terms of the Z Fold8 (the Duo is simply a wide foldable).
For context, present are the prices of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. They surely aren’t inexpensive either, but unless you’re anxious to effort retired Apple’s archetypal effort astatine a foldable, the modular iPhone models whitethorn beryllium the amended pick.
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