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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8 Gets the Cover Screen Right — for a Price 57%
By Mike Sorrentino83%
7/25/2026, 12:59:44 AM
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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.
But I was more impressed by a number of software tweaks coming to the Z Flip 8 that make it easier to use while closed.
For starters, you can now add apps to the cover screen by scrolling up on the app drawer and tapping “Add apps” to access any app installed on your phone.
Previously, you had to dig through various settings menus to do the same thing.
This is also much closer to how the latest Motorola Razr phones let you use any app you want on their cover screens.
The Z Flip 8’s cover screen is also getting the “Recent apps” shortcut button for the first time — which is wild, since quickly switching tasks is such a basic function on the rest of Android.
When I test flip-style phones, I’m most likely on the cover screen using Maps for transit directions while playing music and texting friends — that simple button means I can now swap between these directly without having to kick back to the lock screen.
That’s also a feature already available on the Razr.
The Z Flip 8 carries over several features that debuted on Samsung's Galaxy S26 phone line — for instance, the foldable’s video camera includes Super Steady with horizontal lock to smooth out movement while filming.
And I had a lot of fun playing with a new camera feature called My Fan Cam, which uses Galaxy AI to identify subjects in a video and create a crop that only follows that person throughout the recording, as if the camera is exclusively focused on them.
The Flip 8 is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy — which is the same custom version of the processor used for the Galaxy S26 phones as well as the foldable's pricier siblings, the Z Fold 8 and Z Fold 8 Ultra, which were also announced at Unpacked.
Other specs carry over from last year’s Z Flip 7, including the 6.9-inch internal display and the 4.1-inch cover screen.
It’s the same for the cameras, which are a 50-megapixel wide-angle, 12-megapixel ultrawide and 10-megapixel selfie camera.
The phone’s 4,300-mAh battery, 25-watt max wired charging speed and 15-watt max wireless charging are also the same.
We’ll have to see when testing the phone whether the newer processor is efficient enough to improve the overall battery life.
The Galaxy Flip 8 comes in four colors: pink, graphite and cream, as well as mint as an online-exclusive offering.
The phone goes on preorder today and will go on sale Aug.
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