Samsung’s next book-style foldable appears to be getting a shape change, if newly posted images from leaker Evan Blass are accurate. Blass shared pictures and specifications for the Galaxy Z Fold 8, showing a device that looks shorter and wider than Samsung’s current foldable formula.
That matters because Samsung’s Fold line has long asked buyers to live with a narrow outer screen in exchange for the tablet-like display inside. A wider cover display would make the phone less weird for ordinary phone tasks, assuming the leaked design reflects the final hardware Samsung plans to show.
Blass posted the images shortly before Samsung’s July 22 launch event, where the company is expected to announce the new foldables. Samsung has not officially confirmed the specifications described in the leak, so treat the numbers as claims until the company puts them on a slide and starts charging money for the thing.
What the Fold 8 leak claims
According to the images shared by Blass, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chip. The leaked material also lists a 50-megapixel wide rear camera and a 50-megapixel ultra-wide rear camera.
For selfies and video calls, the images show 10-megapixel cameras on both the inner display and the outer screen. The battery claim attached to the leak is framed as up to 26 hours of video playback, which is the sort of manufacturer-friendly metric that usually says more about a controlled test than a messy day with maps, camera, messaging, and bad signal.
The design shown by Blass lines up with earlier leaks that also pointed to a wider Galaxy Z Fold 8. The repeated appearance of the same silhouette does not make it official, but it does make the redesign look less like a one-off render floating around the internet.
Flip 8 and Fold 8 Ultra also surfaced
Blass also posted images of the Galaxy Z Flip 8 and shared Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra images in an email received by The Verge. The devices resemble foldables that Samsung briefly showed in a Spider-Man teaser released earlier this week, according to The Verge.
The Galaxy Z Flip 8 images list a 4,300mAh battery and a 10-megapixel camera on the main screen. The cover-screen camera setup is shown as a 50-megapixel wide camera paired with a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, matching the current Galaxy Z Flip 7 camera arrangement.
The leaked Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra material points to a 5,000mAh battery and up to 27 hours of video playback. Its rear camera set is shown as a 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera, a 200-megapixel wide camera, and a 10-megapixel telephoto camera. The listed cover and main screen cameras are both 10 megapixels.
Samsung’s launch event should settle which parts of the leak survive contact with the official spec sheet. Until then, the useful takeaway is narrow: Samsung may be ready to change the Fold’s proportions, and Blass’s images suggest the company has more than one foldable variant queued up for the announcement.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge.
