Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8 Gets the Cover Screen Right – for a Price – CNET Skip to content Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. The $1,200 Galaxy Z Flip 8. Joseph Maldonado/CNET Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8, announced Wednesday during the company’s Unpacked event, launches with the price hike we expected, along with a few welcome tweaks to its design and software that could make the phone easier to use. I got to demo the $1,200 Z Flip 8, and even though that’s a $100 spike from the starting price of last year’s Z Flip 7 for the same 256GB of storage, the phone is noticeably lighter and thinner than prior iterations. Samsung says that at launch, the 180-gram Flip 8 will be the lightest flip-style foldable phone on the market. When unfolded, the phone is 6.1mm thick, which is noticeably thinner than the Z Flip 7 (6.8mm) and Motorola Razr Ultra (7.2mm). Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8 now lets you add apps with a simple function in the app drawer on the cover screen.Joseph Maldonado/CNET But I was more impressed by a number of software tweaks coming to the Z Flip 8 that make it easier to…
Published: July 25, 2026 12:59 am
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