Samsung describes the caller Galaxy Z bid arsenic “its astir implicit lineup yet,” suggesting that thing was missing until now. And that thing is the wide foldable that volition beryllium known simply arsenic the Galaxy Z Fold8. It’s important to enactment that this is not the successor to the Z Fold7 – that would beryllium the Z Fold8 Ultra instead.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 splits the quality betwixt the Flip and the archetypal Fold signifier factors. The Z Flip8 has a 4.1” screen display, the Z Fold8 a 5.5” 1 and the Z Fold8 Ultra is the biggest astatine 6.5”.
When closed, the Z Fold8 is astir a throwback – a representation 5.5” show with a 10:16 facet ratio feels similar the mini phones that nary longer exist. It’s rather wide astatine 81.9mm, but the apical of its surface is easy reachable arsenic the telephone is lone 123.9mm tall. It measures 9.7mm heavy erstwhile folded and weighs 201g. In scenery orientation, you get a 16:10 facet ratio that is communal connected laptops and tablets (e.g. Tab S11 Ultra) and is well-suited for watching videos and gaming too.
When opened, the Z Fold8 offers a 4:3 7.6” display. This is simply a cleanable lucifer for photos, which default to 4:3, and it is besides precise good suited for text-based uses similar speechmaking documents, books oregon text-heavy websites.
Here are a fewer much details connected the displays themselves. The screen sheet is an LTPO OLED (1-120Hz) with 1,248 x 1,972px resolution. The interior show is different LTPO OLED sheet (1-120Hz) with 1,848 x 2,448px. This 1 tin scope 3,000 nits and has a low-reflection coating. Both person precise akin pixel densities, 428ppi and 403ppi, respectively.
The Galaxy Z Fold8 promises the champion of some worlds – a 3:4 show is large for speechmaking documents, books and text-heavy sites, portion the 16:10 show is large for videos, gaming and scrolling done societal media.
The telephone is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy that we’ve already seen with the Galaxy S26 series. It’s paired with 12GB of RAM connected the 256GB and 512GB models and 16GB connected the 1TB model.
The telephone runs connected a 4,800mAh artillery – that’s bigger than the 4,400mAh artillery of the Z Fold7. It supports 45W accelerated charging (63% successful 30 minutes) and 20W wireless charging (with reverse wireless charging).
The camera setup is person to the Z Flip than to the Z Fold Ultra. It has a 50MP main sensor (1.0µm pixels) with an f/1.8 lens, OIS and 2x in-sensor zoom. The ultra-wide camera besides has a 50MP sensor (0.7µm pixels) and an f/1.9 120° lens. There are 2 10MP selfie cameras (1.12µm pixels, f/2.2). The 1 connected the screen show has an 85° lens, portion the 1 wrong has a wider 100° lens.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 comes successful Graphite, Cream and Lavender. Samsung.com offers an exclusive 4th color, Pistachio. For prices and motorboat details, spot below.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra places Samsung’s large book-style foldable successful the aforesaid class arsenic the S26 Ultra. And yes, the “Ultra” tag comes with a absorption connected camera hardware. The telephone boasts a 200MP main (0.6µm pixels, f/1.7, OIS) with enhanced HDR capabilities. It tin grounds 8K video with the APV codec and lets you usage Cine LUTs straight connected the phone.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra
It upgrades the ultra-wide camera with a caller 50MP sensor (0.7µm, f/1.9, 120° FoV) that captures sharper scenery photos and tin get up adjacent for macro photography.
The telephoto camera is unluckily stuck successful the past with a 10MP sensor (1.0µm) and a 3x f/2.4 lens with OIS. There are besides 2 10MP selfie cameras – 1 connected the screen show with an 85° lens and 1 wrong with a wider 100° lens (both person 1.12µm pixel size and f/2.2 apertures).
Like its sibling above, the Ultra volition usage the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy crossed each markets. The chipset present benefits from an expanded graphite expanse to dispersed retired vigor much effectively. The telephone is configured with 12GB of RAM connected the 256GB and 512GB models and 16GB connected the 1TB model.
Like its predecessor (the Z Fold7), the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra measures 72.8mm wide and 8.9mm heavy erstwhile closed. It’s a tad slimmer erstwhile opened, present measuring 4.1mm. It weighs the aforesaid arsenic earlier astatine 215g.
These measurements conceal an important upgrade – the artillery capableness has grown to 5,000mAh, a astir 14% summation implicit the 4,400mAh artillery of the 2025 model. And it supports faster 45W charging (up from 25W), getting up to 67% complaint successful 30 minutes. Wireless charging has besides been bumped up and it present does 20W (it besides offers reverse wireless charging). Samsung flaunts a “new dual-path charging architecture”, though we’re not definite rather what that is – but we volition beryllium putting it to the test.
Both the Z Fold8 and Z Fold8 Ultra motorboat with Android 17 and One UI 9. They person Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 support. The phones are rated IP48 for particulate and h2o resistance. The Ultra tin beryllium had successful Graphite, Cream and Violet Shadow. Samsung.com’s exclusive 4th colour is called Green Shadow.
A large alteration this procreation is the Flex Titanium technology, which combines a titanium-alloy movie with an enhanced titanium plate. This strengthens the show and helps it sorb interaction and pressure, portion making it much resilient to the deterioration that forms the crease successful the middle. The refined hinge plan makes opening the telephone consciousness smoother and lighter.
Availability & price
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra spell connected pre-order starting today. They travel with a 6-month proceedings of Google AI Pro – this includes 5TB of unreality retention and usually costs $20 a month.
PS. If you are looking for the Galaxy Z Flip8, we screen that successful a abstracted post.
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