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TL;DR Samsung’s July 22 Unpacked event will showcase brand-new foldables and smartwatches.
The hotly anticipated Galaxy Z Fold 8 may be on the agenda, while the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and the Z Flip 8 will also be revealed.
Samsung is expected to take the wraps off the Galaxy Watch 9 series and the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 at Unpacked, with One UI 9 potentially getting detailed as well.
Samsung’s second Galaxy Unpacked event of the year is scheduled for July 22 in London, UK, and the event will be livestreamed on YouTube. We’ve come across innumerable leaks and early teasers of the devices that will be showcased at Unpacked, revealing practically everything we need to know.
However, given the number of devices Samsung is expected to launch next week, including that wide foldable we’ve all been looking forward to, things will look a bit different than the mid-year Galaxy Unpacked events of the past. With that in mind, here’s what we expect to see from Samsung’s hardware launch event on Wednesday.
What to expect from the July 2026 Galaxy Unpacked
Galaxy Z Fold 8
The headliners at the event will be the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and its supposedly rebranded “Ultra” sibling. For the uninitiated, Samsung is expected to add the Ultra suffix to the Galaxy Z Fold 7 successor, while the wide version debuting this year will be called the Galaxy Z Fold 8.
According to rumors that have surfaced so far, the wide-body foldable will come equipped with a 5.5-inch, 120Hz Dynamic AMOLED 2X cover screen with a resolution of 1,972 x 1,248, and a foldable 7.6-inch, 120Hz Dynamic AMOLED 2X main display with a resolution of 2,448 x 1,848. As leaked renders have shown so far, the Z Fold 8’s screen will have prominent borders.
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