In addition to its new flippable and foldable phones, Samsung showed off the Galaxy Watch8 and Galaxy Watch8 Classic.
Samsung’s newest lineup of phones and watches is here. While specs for the Fold and Flip phones leaked last week, the official reveal took place Wednesday, July 9 at the Samsung Unpacked event in Brooklyn. For techies, highlights include Google Gemini AI agent integration on the watches and Samsung DeX functionality on the Galaxy Z Flip7.
The Galaxy Watch8, Galaxy Watch8 Classic, 2025 Galaxy Watch Ultra, Galaxy Z Flip7, and Galaxy Z Fold7 can be preordered starting July 9 and go on sale on July 25.
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 follow the Korean company’s regular yearly upgrade pattern, offering thinner, lighter devices and more AI bells and whistles. The former comes at a seriously premium price.
Pricing starts at $1,999.99 for 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage options. The Galaxy Z Fold7 is available in Jetblack, Blue Shadow, Silver Shadow, or, exclusively for orders placed through Samsung’s website, Mint green.
For your money you get a smartphone weighing just 215 grams, lighter even than the premium phone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s light, too, and 8.9 mm when folded and 4.2 mm thick when unfolded. Inside the small package is a larger screen than the previous generation of foldable, an 8-inch main display. On the exterior, the phone sports a 6.5-inch cover display.
With the hinge often proving the most vulnerable point on a foldable phone, Samsung is trying a new, multi-rail structure to evenly disperse stress across the hinge. This, the company claims, increases durability.
As for cameras, the 200MP wide-angle camera and 10 MP 100-degree camera capture more detail and wider-angle photos than the previous generation of foldable phone.
Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy lets the Galaxy Z Fold7 run the full suite of Google Gemini AI features. Gemini can assist with writing and drawing, respond to natural language questions about content on the screen or observe through the camera lens with Gemini Live.
Like the foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip7 packs AI features into a small form factor. At 13.7mm when folded and 188 grams, it can easily fit in a pocket. In that space, the 4.1-inch cover screen and the 6.9-inch main display both go up to 2,600 nits of brightness and refresh at 120Hz.
Inside is a 3nm processor capable of running Google Gemini, including the Gemini Live features. The cover screen can display flight information and other time-sensitive reminders curated by the AI.
“By bringing rich multimodal AI capabilities and seamless functionality to the FlexWindow, we’ve created a device that adapts, anticipates, and empowers users, unlocking a smarter, more intuitive way to engage with the world,” said TM Roh, president and acting head of the device eXperience (DX) division at Samsung Electronics, in a press release.
With the newly-integrated Samsung DeX, the Galaxy Z Flip7 can connect to compatible monitors to turn into a PC-like workstation.
As for the camera, dual rear lenses offer a 50MP Wide or a 12MP Ultra-Wide option. The selfie camera on the cover screen includes real-time filters and a zoom slider.
How much will that cost you? Galaxy Z Flip7 with 256GB and 512GB storage options starts at $1,099.99. The pared-back Galaxy Z Flip7 FE with 128GB or 256GB of storage starts at $899.99. The standard model comes in Jetblack, Blue Shadow, Coralred or the exclusive Mint color from the Samsung website. For the FE edition you’ll need to choose between black or white.
The Galaxy Watches are getting an upgrade too, with Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic arriving on July 25.
Samsung enthusiastically promoted the health features, which include sleep coaching, running guidance, a heart health monitor, and measurement of antioxidants through a sensor on the skin.
Google Gemini has been put to work on the watch enabling multi-step experiences. The user can ask the watch to set a five-mile run and start the workout playlist, or to set a timer for the time indicated on a recipe written in the notes app. The watch face, designed in accordance with Samsung’s One UI interface, features multi-info tiles and supports up to six featured apps.
For comfort, the cushion previously available only on the Ultra is an option for both versions of the Galaxy Watch 8.
The new generation sports an 11% thinner design than any other Galaxy Watch, Samsung said.
Pricing depends on the model and connectivity options:
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Megan Crouse has a decade of experience in business-to-business news and feature writing, including as first a writer and then the editor of Manufacturing.net. Her news and feature stories have appeared in Military & Aerospace Electronics, Fierce Wireless, TechRepublic, and eWeek. She copyedited cybersecurity news and features at Security Intelligence. She holds a degree in English Literature and minored in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
