Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8 Gets the Cover Screen Right
Samsung's new Galaxy Z Flip 8 features a thinner, lighter design and improved software functionality for its cover screen. Despite a $100 price increase, the device offers better multitasking and app accessibility while closed.
Why it matters
The refinements to the foldable form factor highlight the ongoing competition in the premium smartphone market to improve usability and hardware efficiency.
The Galaxy Z Flip 8 starts at $1,200, but it's now thinner, lighter and easier to use while closed.
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).
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