Apple’s foldable has soaked up most of the oxygen this season, which is convenient if you already live inside iOS. Anyone who would rather keep Android, DeX, and three live apps on one slab still has a clearer answer: Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, priced at $1,799.99 (was $2,100), the first book-style Fold to carry the Ultra badge and the first to pair that badge with a camera and battery that finally match the price.
Samsung spent countless hours stretching book-style foldables taller and slimmer. Galaxy Z Fold8, priced at $1,649.99 (was $1,900), goes the other direction, folding into a short, wide slab that sits in a pocket like a passport and opens into a 7.6-inch screen built for movies, books, and two apps at once. Folded, the phone measures 123.9 by 81.9 by 9.7 millimeters and weighs 201 grams, light enough that reviewers keep comparing it to a regular flagship rather than a hinge-and-glass experiment. Opened, the body thins to 4.5 millimeters. Armor aluminum, Gorilla Glass Victus Ceramic 3 on the cover, and an IP48 rating (dust over 1 millimeter, 1.5 meters of water for 30 minutes) keep the package from feeling fragile after a month of daily carry.
A regular-looking mouse sits on a desk, clicks as expected, and still moves a cursor. Same object also boots a desktop on a monitor and plays Minecraft. That collision of jobs is the whole point of YouTuber Gadget Industry’s latest build: a Samsung phone’s computer stuffed into a pointing device that never stopped being a pointing device.
Samsung showed up at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne with a pair of portable SSDs that finally put USB4 to work. Flagship P9 is the one that matters if you live in large files. Sequential reads reach 4,000 megabytes per second. Sequential writes reach 3,800. That is about twice the T9, which maxed out at 2,000 MB/s on USB 3.2 Gen 2×2.
Most people who want the newest phone look at the Ultra or the latest foldable. Meanwhile, Samsung’s Galaxy S25+, priced at $679.99 (was $1,000), delivers the same daily performance without the increased weight or cost. A year and a half after its release, it is still in that unusual position where the hardware feels modern while the software continues to improve.
Office printers usually sit there doing their quiet job of putting toner on paper. One Samsung C410W now spends part of its time generating infinite blocky terrain and letting players dig, build, and chat across a local network. The project belongs to a maker known as vimpo, the same person who previously convinced a Wi-Fi light bulb to host a Minecraft world.
Samsung spent plenty of time at launch talking about Flex Titanium on the Galaxy Z Fold8. The company described a dual-layer shield of titanium alloy film and plate sitting right behind the main folding screen, thin enough that the film measures about one-third the thickness of a human hair, stiff enough to cut crease depth and raise durability. After Zack Nelson’s durability test showed the inner panel still scratching at Mohs level 2 with deeper marks from a fingernail, the obvious next question was whether any of that titanium actually existed.
Zack Nelson has a habit of taking brand-new phones and treating them the way most people accidentally treat their everyday carry. This time the victim is Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8, the shorter, wider passport-style foldable that opens into a nearly square tablet. He runs the usual sequence of scratches, grit, open flame, and the dreaded opposite-direction bend. What emerges is another quietly tough Samsung folder that refuses to fold the wrong way for good.
Samsung took a hard look at how people actually use big foldable screens and decided the tall, narrow shape everyone had gotten used to was not the full story. The Galaxy Z Fold8, priced at $1,900 with $350 Amazon GC, arrives with a shorter, wider body that feels closer to a passport than a phone book, and that single change unlocks a far better experience for videos, games, and everything in between.
