GoKawiilSamsung has gotten a jump on the traditional fall hardware season over the last few years by announcing its Galaxy foldable and smartwatch lineups each July. The company is sticking to that approach this year with a mid-summer reveal of three new phones: the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Flip 8. Samsung also unveiled the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 smartwatches.
The phones have a few things in common. For instance, all three run on the same chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy. The base models come with the same memory and storage options — 12GB of RAM with 256GB or 512GB of storage. The two Fold 8 variants each have a configuration with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of internal storage.
The selfie cams are all 10MP wide-angle lenses. The one on the Flip 8 and those on the covers of the two Fold 8 models are all capable of shooting 4K video at 60fps. The main selfie cams on the Fold 8 phones can handle FHD footage at 60 fps.
For the new phones, Samsung is using new Flex Titanium tech. According to the company, this is a titanium-based design that helps keep them thin and durable. While the last generation did have a rigid titanium plate behind the entire display, the new foldables add a titanium alloy layer beneath the phone's flexible OLED. Samsung says "Flex Titanium helps strengthen display support, absorb pressure and impact and reduce crease visibility," while making it feel smoother and more natural to open up the devices.
For all its progress on the design front, Samsung's latest handsets still don't natively support Qi2 charging. It's been 18 months since the company first started supporting the standard with the "Qi2-ready" Galaxy S25. Yet you'll need to put one of these new phones in a compatible case with magnets before you can get get the most out of a Qi2 charger.
As for the wearables, the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 both run on a Snapdragon Wear Elite chipset. Qualcomm unveiled the 3nm processor earlier this year. It's the first Snapdragon chip for wearables to have a dedicated Hexagon NPU, which is capable of supporting AI models with two billion parameters.
Pre-orders for all of the devices start today. They'll hit shelves on August 7.
Let's dig into the details of each phone and watch, as well as some of the new features. Here's everything Samsung announced at its July 2026 edition of Galaxy Unpacked.