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Since introducing the first Galaxy Fold at 276 grams in 2019, Samsung Electronics has continued to expand what a foldable smartphone can be, advancing hinge and display design, durability and usability with every generation.<\/p>\n
As those technologies evolved, Samsung focused on another challenge: making a large-screen foldable easier to carry every day, without losing the experiences that make the form factor unique.<\/p>\n
And through that pursuit, Galaxy Z Fold5 weighed 253 grams, and Galaxy Z Fold6 reduced its weight further to 239 grams.<\/p>\n
With Galaxy Z Fold7 came an even more ambitious goal:
\n\u201cCould a foldable be lighter than a bar-type flagship smartphone?\u201d
\nAt the time, Galaxy S25 Ultra \u2014 one of Samsung\u2019s flagship bar-type smartphones \u2014 weighed 218 grams. So, the development team set an even lighter weight target for Galaxy Z Fold7: 215 grams.
\nGalaxy Z Fold7 reached that goal. And now, building on years of foldable innovation, Galaxy Z Fold8 combines a new form factor with advances in core technologies, materials and internal architecture to weigh just 201 grams \u2014 52 grams lighter than Galaxy Z Fold5. At 201 grams, Galaxy Z Fold8 is the world\u2019s lightest fold.<\/p>\n
Galaxy Z Fold\u2019s weight and thickness evolution by generation, from 276 grams and 17.1 millimeters with the first Galaxy Fold to Galaxy Z Fold8 at 201 grams and 9.7 millimeters, the world\u2019s lightest foldable, alongside Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra at 8.9 millimeters thick.<\/p>\n
But consumers expected more than just a lighter foldable.<\/p>\n
A 2024 YouGov survey found that a bulky or heavy design remained a concern among consumers not planning to purchase foldables, while battery life, durability and display quality ranked as top priorities for those considering them.<\/p>\n
This insight shaped a core engineering goal for Samsung: make foldables thinner and lighter, while maintaining the core experiences users value most.<\/p>\n
Battery life, camera performance, thermal management and durability still had to advance.<\/p>\n
That could not be achieved by changing a single component. Samsung engineers had to reimagine the entire device \u2014 advancing fundamental foldable technologies, introducing new materials and revisiting hundreds of components and auxiliary parts to the fraction-of-a-gram level<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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