Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8

Samsung announced both on 22 July 2026, and they’re much closer in weight than its 2024 pair. Fold8 is 201 grams and Flip8 180, twenty-one grams apart, where Flip6 and Fold6 were 187 and 239 grams. The book got lighter, and it also lost Fold6’s 3x telephoto.

Flip8 against Fold8, spec by spec

Spec	Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8	Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8
US launch price	$1,199.99	$1,899.99
Weight	180 g	201 g
Open	166.9 × 75.4 × 6.1mm	123.9 × 161.4 × 4.5mm
Closed	85.7 × 75.4 × 13.1mm	123.9 × 81.9 × 9.7mm
Main screen	6.9-inch (6.8-inch with rounded corners), 1080 × 2520, 400 ppi, 1–120Hz	7.6-inch, 1848 × 2448, 403 ppi, 1–120Hz
Cover screen	4.1-inch (4.0-inch with rounded corners), 948 × 1048, 342 ppi, 60Hz or 120Hz	5.5-inch (Samsung also gives 5.4), 1248 × 1972, 428 ppi, 1–120Hz
Rear cameras	50MP wide, F1.8; 12MP ultrawide, F2.2	50MP wide, F1.8; 50MP ultrawide, F1.9
Zoom	2x optical-quality, 10x digital, no telephoto	2x optical-quality, 10x digital, no telephoto
Video	4K at 60 fps	8K at 30 fps; selfies 4K at 60 fps
Battery	4300mAh typical, 4174mAh rated	4800mAh typical, 4660mAh rated
Wired charging	Up to 55% in about 30 minutes, 25W	Up to 63% in about 30 minutes, 45W
Wireless charging	15W, plus Wireless PowerShare	20W, plus Wireless PowerShare
Chip	Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy	Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy
Storage and RAM	256GB or 512GB, 12GB RAM	256GB or 512GB with 12GB; 1TB with 16GB
Bluetooth	5.4	6.0
Glass	Gorilla Glass Victus 2 cover; glass-fiber-reinforced polymer back	Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 cover; Gorilla Glass Victus 2 back
Water and dust	IP48	IP48

Two shapes

Open, Flip8 is a tall, narrow phone, 166.9 by 75.4mm and 6.1mm thick. Shut, it folds to a near-square 85.7 by 75.4mm, but it’s 13.1mm thick. Fold8 opens wide instead, to 123.9 by 161.4mm and 4.5mm thick, and closes to 123.9 by 81.9mm and 9.7mm. So the clamshell is the taller phone open and the thicker one shut, and the book is the wider one open. Samsung measures both open thicknesses without the frame around the main screen.

Screens

Flip8’s main screen is a 6.9-inch FHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X with Vision Booster, or 6.8 inches with the rounded corners counted, at 1080 × 2520 and 400 pixels per inch, refreshing from 1Hz to 120Hz. The cover is an HD+ Super AMOLED, also with Vision Booster, at 948 × 1048 and 342 pixels per inch, and it runs at 60Hz or 120Hz. Samsung calls it 4.1 inches as a full rectangle, and its US site gives 4.0 inches with the rounded corners counted.

Fold8 opens to a 7.6-inch QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X with Vision Booster, at 1848 × 2448 and 403 pixels per inch, from 1Hz to 120Hz. Its FHD+ cover is listed at 5.5 inches, 1248 × 1972 and 428 pixels per inch, with the same refresh range, though Samsung’s own notes give 5.4 inches for one of the two ways of measuring it. Samsung doesn’t give a peak brightness for either phone, or say whether either has an Always-On display.

Cameras: same main camera, better ultrawide on Fold8

Both have the same 50-megapixel main camera: F1.8, Dual Pixel autofocus, optical image stabilization, 1.0-micrometer pixels and an 85-degree view. Both zoom 2x at optical quality from it and up to 10x digitally. Neither has a telephoto lens: that’s on Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, which pairs a 200-megapixel main camera with a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto and starts higher than either.

The ultrawide is where Fold8 pulls ahead: 50 megapixels with Quad Pixel autofocus, F1.9, 0.7-micrometer pixels and a 120-degree view, against a 12-megapixel ultrawide on Flip8 at F2.2, 1.12 micrometers and 123 degrees. Fold8 also records 8K at 30 fps from the rear cameras, where Flip8 tops out at 4K at 60 fps.

For selfies, Flip8 has one 10-megapixel camera at F2.2, 1.12 micrometers and 85 degrees. Fold8 has two 10-megapixel cameras at F2.2 and 1.12 micrometers: one on the inner screen with a wider 100-degree view, and one on the cover at 85 degrees. Every selfie camera on both phones records 4K at 60 fps.

Battery and charging

Fold8 has the bigger battery, a 4800mAh typical dual battery rated at 4660mAh, against 4300mAh typical and 4174mAh rated on Flip8. It charges faster too: up to 63 percent in about 30 minutes with a 45W adapter, against up to 55 percent with a 25W adapter on Flip8, both using a 3A USB-C cable. Wireless charging is 20W on Fold8 and 15W on Flip8, and both can charge other devices with Wireless PowerShare.

A bigger battery doesn’t guarantee longer life when it also powers a bigger screen, and Samsung doesn’t give a battery-life figure in hours for either phone.

Same chip, different radios and storage

Both run Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform for Galaxy with Android 17 and One UI 9, have 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi 7, and take a SIM plus an eSIM. Bluetooth is where the radios split: 6.0 on Fold8, 5.4 on Flip8.

Flip8 comes with 256GB or 512GB of storage, both with 12GB of RAM. Fold8 adds a 1TB model with 16GB of RAM; its 256GB and 512GB models have 12GB.

Samsung’s specs for both leave out NFC, the satellite positioning systems, the fingerprint method and how many years of updates they’ll get. Don’t count on the seven-year promise of other Galaxy phones until Samsung confirms it for these.

Build and colors

Both have Armor Aluminum frames and an IP48 rating. Flip8 uses Gorilla Glass Victus 2 over the cover screen and a glass-fiber-reinforced polymer back; Fold8 has Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 on the cover and Victus 2 on the back. Flip8 comes in Pink, Graphite, Cream and Mint, and Fold8 in Lavender, Graphite, Cream and Pistachio. Mint and Pistachio are sold only on Samsung.com.

Price

Flip8 starts at $1,199.99 and Fold8 at $1,899.99 in the US, a $700 gap. Pre-orders opened on 22 July 2026 and ran until 7 August, when both went on sale at Samsung.com, Amazon, Best Buy and carriers. Those are launch prices, so check Samsung and the retailers for what they cost now.