Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 5G

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Flip8 alongside the Galaxy Z Fold8 (read hands-on review) and the new Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra (read hands-on review) at its July Galaxy Unpacked event in London. In a launch dominated by the redesigned Fold8 line, the Flip8 plays a familiar role: it’s the smaller, cheaper, more pocketable foldable in Samsung’s lineup, and this year it arrives as a careful, iterative refinement of last year’s Z Flip7 rather than a ground-up redesign. Pre-orders opened the same day as the announcement, with the phone going on sale August 7, 2026. After spending hands-on time with the device ahead of launch, the story of the Z Flip8 is one of small, tangible improvements: a thinner, lighter chassis, a sharper cover-screen experience, and a return to Qualcomm silicon in North America, layered on top of a formula that hasn’t fundamentally changed since the Z Flip7. It’s a more polished phone, but also a notably more expensive one.