Samsung is getting ready to launch its next foldable flagship phones, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Flip 8. Leaks and rumors about these devices have already appeared online. Now, a new leak reveals key specs of the Galaxy Z Fold 8.

According to tipster @TheGalox_, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 will have some upgrades over the previous model. This foldable device will reportedly feature a 6.5-inch cover screen and an 8-inch main screen, both with 120 Hz Dynamic AMOLED displays. Samsung may also use a dual-layer ultra-thin glass and a laser-drilled metal support plate inside the screen to make it stronger.

The cameras are expected to be impressive. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 could have a 200 MP main camera, a 50 MP ultra-wide lens, and a 10 MP telephoto lens with 3× zoom, offering sharp photos for all situations.

Source – Samsung Mobile Press

Moreover, it may run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy processor, paired with Vapor Chamber Cooling to avoid overheating. Memory options could include 12 GB or 16 GB RAM, with storage options of 256 GB, 512 GB, or 1 TB.

The phone may have a 5,000 mAh battery with 45 W fast charging. This means the device should last a full day and charge quickly. Despite these upgrades, the Z Fold 8 is expected to be thinner and lighter than previous foldables.

Samsung could launch the Galaxy Z Fold 8 around July or August 2026, running One UI 9, the next One UI version of Samsung’s software. Stay tuned for more information.

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It’s been a busy week if you follow Samsung leaks as closely as I do. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 battery story broke earlier, but it didn’t quite sit right to just report it and move on. This one deserves a second look; a slower, more critical read.

For the first time in years, Samsung might actually be doing something about the Fold’s weakest link.

Here’s what the leak tells us.

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is expected to be equipped with a dual-cell battery setup rated at 2,369mAh and 2,485mAh. The combination brings the combined rated capacity to 4,845mAh, which Samsung will almost certainly market as 5,000mAh.

If that number sounds familiar, it should; that is in line with the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Meanwhile, the Fold is not a slab phone. It is running two displays, one of them tablet-sized, with a hinge mechanism and internal constraints.

Still, numbers only tell half the story. Efficiency, thermal headroom, and software tuning will decide whether this finally fixes the Fold’s long-standing battery anxiety. If you have used the Fold 7 as a daily driver, you already know what I mean.

If you’ve been following the Fold series, you’ve probably noticed the pattern. The Galaxy Z Fold 2 pushed things to 4,500mAh back in 2020. Then came the Fold 3, and Samsung actually stepped back to 4,400mAh.

Since then, every new foldable, including the Z Fold 4, Z Fold 6, and Z Fold 7, has stuck at 4,400mAh. Now, with the Fold 8, we are potentially looking at a jump to 5,000mAh. That’s roughly a 13 to 14 percent increase.

Samsung’s engineering team has finally hit the wall with the 4,400mAh limit. While it’s not revolutionary, but significant enough to matter. More importantly, it breaks a five-year plateau, taking the Galaxy Z Fold near S Ultra.

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BAIC files 20 patents in sodium-ion battery development program.

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Samsung has remained very conservative in its experimentation in the smartphone battery department ever since the Note 7 fiasco back in 2016. However, this reluctance is now costing the South Korean behemoth dearly as Chinese OEMs increasingly take the initiative with monster silicon-carbon (Si/C) batteries. Against this relatively challenging backdrop, we reported towards the end of 2025 that Samsung had commenced and then abandoned its testing of a mammoth 20,000mAh silicon-carbon battery. Well, now we know a lot more about those failed tests as well as Samsung's ongoing testing of a smaller 18,000mAh battery, courtesy of a few leaked documents. Samsung's […]

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