Samsung just unveiled the new Galaxy Z series, which composed of the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, and Flip8.
The new lineup is designed to expand foldables to a wider audience. It also introduces the Galaxy Z Fold8 which comes in a fresh and exciting form factor. It provides a new kind of foldable experience built around the way people explore, discover, and immerse themselves in their favorite content.
The Galaxy Z series also introduces the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, enhancing productivity with a larger workspace, and the Galaxy Z Flip8, designed for expression and convenience. Built on seven generations of innovation, this lineup offers three distinct experiences tailored to diverse user needs.
Galaxy AI is tailored for various form factors, enhancing user experience by making insights actionable and actions interconnected. The larger screens of Galaxy Z Fold8 and Fold8 Ultra facilitate multitasking, while Flip8’s AI-native FlexWindow provides easy access to important information. With Gemini Intelligence, users can accomplish tasks more efficiently, ensuring transparency, privacy, and user control.
“As AI becomes more agentic, mobile devices will become the most personal entry point to experiences that understand and adapt to each user. By setting a new standard for foldables, we are once again advancing the premium mobile experience and opening the next era of intelligence to more people.”
TM Roh, Chief Executive Officer, President and Head of the Device eXperience (DX) Division at Samsung Electronics
The All-New Galaxy Z Fold8: A New Galaxy Fold Experience for Everyday Immersion
Galaxy Z Fold8 is designed for users seeking a natural foldable experience, allowing seamless transitions from quick interactions on the cover screen to immersive viewing on the main display. With intuitive display ratios and long-lasting performance, it enhances engagement with important content and stories.
Built for Discovery
Galaxy Z Fold8 features display ratios that enhance the immersive experience for various activities like browsing, watching, reading, and gaming. Weighing only 201 g, it is the lightest Galaxy Z Fold model. It integrates the Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform with a 4,800 mAh battery, ensuring smooth performance and prolonged usage for users.
- When folded, the 10:16 cover screen feels familiar and comfortable for the short moments people return to most often, such as messaging, social updates, browsing and short-form video.
- When unfolded, the 4:3 main display creates a larger canvas that helps users lose themselves in games and films.
- When rotated, the same display ratio becomes naturally suited to reading, giving users a more comfortable way to settle into articles, e-books and long-form content without carrying another device.
- Together, these display ratios are designed around the way people naturally consume content, helping Fold8 feel more immersive whether users are quickly checking in or settling in for longer sessions.
A Display Engineered From the Inside Out
Samsung’s Galaxy Z series showcases advanced display engineering, resulting in slimmer designs, improved durability, and enhanced seamless viewing for a refined foldable experience.
- Samsung’s new Flex Titanium technology introduces a titanium-based display structure designed to help make foldables thinner while maintaining durability. Combining a titanium-alloy film with an enhanced titanium plate, Flex Titanium helps strengthen display support, absorb pressure and impact, and reduce crease visibility over time. This structure also refines the way the device opens, balancing hinge mechanics, display tension and magnetic force to make unfolding feel smoother, lighter and more natural.
- With up to 3,000 nits of brightness, Vision Booster and a low-reflection display finish, the main screen stays vivid and easy to see even in outdoor settings.
A Clear and Versatile Camera Experience
Galaxy Z Fold8 enhances the ease of capturing, editing, and sharing photography and videos, making it ideal for various moments, from landscapes to spontaneous shots.
- Dual 50 MP cameras deliver consistent high-resolution detail across wide and ultra-wide perspectives, helping preserve image quality across different scenes and shooting conditions.
- Dual Recording lets users capture both sides of the moment while previewing themselves through the cover screen, making reactions and shared experiences easier to frame.
- My FanCam automatically tracks a selected subject and reframes footage into a preferred aspect ratio, turning dynamic scenes into social-ready videos with less manual editing.
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra: The Ultra Foldable Built for Maximum Productivity
Ultra embodies Galaxy’s peak in performance and innovation. The Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra features an 8-inch main display for multitasking, an advanced camera system, and a durable battery, all housed in the slimmest Z Fold design at just 4.1 mm when unfolded and weighing 215 g. This model enhances productivity for users on the go.
Professional-Grade Creativity With an Ultra-Level Camera System
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra is built to give creators more freedom from capture to edit, with an Ultra-level camera system and creative tools that make high-quality content easier to produce from one device.
- The 200 MP main camera system captures rich, detailed photos with greater clarity, and is now enhanced with High Dynamic Range (HDR) capability in 200 MP mode for more true-to-life images.7
- A new 50 MP ultra-wide camera brings greater detail and clarity to wider scenes and macro shots, giving users more flexibility when capturing landscapes, interiors, group shots and close-up details.
- Improved Nightography7 helps photos and videos look brighter and clearer in low light, so users can capture standout moments even in challenging lighting conditions.
- For advanced creators, 8K video recording through the new APV codec gives users greater flexibility and quality for editing and production workflows, while Cine LUT adds cinematic color and tone control directly from a mobile device.
Power, Battery and Cooling Built for All-Day Productivity
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra is engineered to stay fast, responsive and reliable through the most demanding workloads, from heavier multitasking and content creation to AI-powered workflows.
- With Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform for Galaxy3 at its core, Fold8 Ultra delivers the performance users need to switch between apps, work across a larger screen and keep demanding tasks moving smoothly.
- A larger 5,000 mAh battery helps users stay productive for longer, supporting a full day of work, creation and entertainment in a slimmer foldable design.
- Fold8 Ultra introduces a new dual-path charging architecture with 45W fast charging, helping distribute power more efficiently across the battery system for faster, more stable and reliable charging throughout the day.
- Fold8 Ultra uses an expanded graphite cooling structure engineered for improved thermal conductivity, helping dissipate heat more effectively to keep the device responsive during demanding tasks.
Galaxy Z Flip8: The Sleekest, Most Expressive AI-Native Flip Experience
Galaxy Z Flip8 is designed for dynamic users, enabling quick interactions and personal expression. It features a reimagined FlexWindow and a flexible Flip form factor, making it AI-native. Weighing 180 g and measuring 6.1 mm thick, it serves as Samsung’s slimmest and lightest model, enhancing access to information and creativity in daily moments.
A Smarter, More Intuitive FlexWindow Experience
Galaxy Z Flip8 reimagines the FlexWindow as an AI-native everyday interface, bringing information, actions and assistance closer to the moments when users need them most.
- The new FlexWindow brings apps, insights and actions directly to the cover screen, helping users access information, AI-powered features and connected tasks in fewer steps.
- Now Brief on the FlexWindow home screen brings timely insights and next steps, helping users move from glanceable information to action at the right moment.
- Flip8 also makes automation through Gemini Intelligence easier to access from the FlexWindow, 13 allowing users to complete connected actions through side-key activation or natural voice requests.
FlexCam Unlocks a More Expressive Flip Selfie Experience
Galaxy Z Flip8 enhances the Flip camera experience, allowing expressive content creation through flexible shooting angles and real-time previews. It offers hands-free shooting, cover-screen selfie videos, and mirror selfies, enabling users to create, check, and share polished moments effortlessly without extra equipment.
- A 50 MP camera with ProVisual Engine delivers Galaxy Z Flip’s most advanced selfie experience, helping users capture detailed portraits and everyday shots with natural skin tones, dynamic bokeh and standout detail.
- Flex Mode makes hands-free shooting easy from a wide range of angles, while Camcorder Grip with Zoom Rocker provides a more comfortable, stable hold when capturing dynamic shots on the move.
- Super Steady — now with a Horizontal Lock option — helps keep footage smooth and consistently framed, whether filming action-filled moments or on-the-go selfie videos.
- FlipShot lets users personalize the FlexWindow and capture more expressive mirror selfies, while Mirror view gives users a realistic mirror-like view for quick look checks before taking a photo or heading out.
A New Class of Agentic Experiences Optimized for Foldables
As the most personal device, the phone is now the primary interface for AI, with the Galaxy Z series leading the next generation of mobile AI experiences. Galaxy AI operates across various apps and services, tailored for foldable devices, and aims to provide a more personalized and proactive user experience by translating insights into actionable steps.
- Now Brief helps users stay informed with personalized insights tailored to their routines, interests and daily needs through expanded scenarios, customizable briefing cards and personalized recommendations. It now also surfaces security and privacy insights, helping users stay on top of potential risks and protective actions.
- Now Nudge helps turn insights into action. When plans begin to take shape in a conversation, AI can surface relevant next steps such as checking a schedule, finding a place or saving a location. On foldables, users can continue the conversation side by side on larger displays.
- Gemini Intelligence helps users move from request to result with fewer steps. Users can simply describe what they need or even add screen or image context. With Gemini Notebook, users can bring together notes, images, recordings, files and documents in one persistent workspace to collect, organize and develop their ideas. Drag-and-drop support in Split view makes the workflow even more intuitive, allowing users to easily add multiple files and images and turn their content into audio overviews, infographics, reports, meeting recaps, visual summaries, documents and more.
- AI experiences become more connected and contextual when the new Galaxy Z series is connected with Galaxy Watch Ultra2, the Galaxy Watch9 series and even the upcoming intelligent eyewear. From wellness insights to daily routines and connected actions, Galaxy AI helps users move more seamlessly between devices with timely personalized support throughout the day.
Galaxy AI is evolving into a more capable and proactive companion, assisting users in achieving more with reduced effort. Its foldable form factors enhance accessibility and usability throughout the day.
Security and Privacy Built Into the Experience
As AI evolves to be more personal and autonomous, trust is essential. Users must be informed about data usage and maintain control over their experiences. Samsung’s new Galaxy Z series prioritizes this trust by ensuring data security and providing users with transparency, choice, and control over their information.
Samsung Knox provides comprehensive protection for Galaxy devices through a multi-layered strategy. It includes on-device personalization, user-controlled cloud processing, and advanced protections like Samsung Knox Matrix for ecosystem-wide security. Key features such as the Personal Data Engine (PDE) offer context-aware AI experiences, while Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP) creates secure storage environments. Knox Vault adds a physical layer to safeguard sensitive data, ensuring users maintain control over AI-driven data management and usage.
One UI 9 features a new AI Assistant Activity dashboard, allowing users to view AI automations in one central location. This simplifies the process of understanding AI actions across various apps. Additionally, the Galaxy Z series introduces enhanced Privacy Alerts that inform users about potential privacy risks, facilitating proactive responses to unauthorized background permission requests.
These updates enhance Galaxy’s security and privacy features, such as Auto Blocker and Theft Protection, empowering users to manage their personal data and AI interactions with transparency and stronger protections, fostering trust in their experiences.
Getting Started With the New Galaxy Z Series
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, and Flip8 are available for pre-order in the Philippines starting July 22. They come in Graphite and Cream, with exclusive colors: Violet Shadow for Fold8 Ultra, Lavender for Fold8, and Pink for Flip8. Online-exclusive colors include Green Shadow for Fold8 Ultra, Pistachio for Fold8, and Mint for Flip8.
Pre-order until August 13 to double your storage and save as much as ₱7,000, get up to ₱14,000 off when you trade-in, and even avail of Samsung Care+ Free for 3 months, worth P3,297 via Samsung.com.
You can check on the link below for the local pricing, full specs, and availability of the new Galaxy devices.