“It's the Fold 8. It is a brand new passport-sized foldable from Samsung, and I love it to death. It's my new favorite phone.”

“My favorite out of all of these is the Fold 8 for all of the reasons that I've just explained”

“With the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, you get a novel form factor, which is more compact. The wide cover screen can be comfier for reading, and the inner screen is nicer for watching 4x3 content.”

“Battery life is a bit better than the Ultra, and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is also slightly less expensive.”

“Are you going to enjoy the book-like shape of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, or do you want the larger space for multitasking that the Ultra provides?”

“After over two weeks of using this as my main phone, I love it. I really do. I'm so impressed with what Samsung has done here, and I can't wait to see what other brands do in response to this because, trust me, we're going to see a lot of this form factor.”

“And if you're tempted by this, get it. I'm confident you're going to love it.”

“on a scale of 1 to 10, Galaxy Z Fold 8. This is a major major major go.”

“Yes. Not only do I like the phone, I love this phone.”

“If you're new to foldables and you've been put off by them in the past and you you're just not sure about this form factor, but you're tempted because of this, give it a go. I'm confident you'll think it's one of the best phones you've ever had.”

“if you're on the fence or if you want to come into this world, you've done it at the right time because my vote, this. Get involved in the comments, please, guys.”

“The most unique thing about the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the new shorter and wider form factor, which might make sense to you depending on how you use your phone.”

“Otherwise, the phone provides the same features we've come to expect from the Z Fold series. Except that for some reason, Samsung has downgraded the cameras, leaving the more advanced setup for the Z Fold 8 Ultra.”

“Still, the Z Fold 8 is solid across the board. And if you're interested in this new form factor, for now, this is the only place to get it.”

“I'm going to say that I really like it. But then again, I like the OG Pixel Fold. I like that kind of passport design.”

“It feels more like using an iPad mini that folds up and goes in your pocket, which is one of those things that was supposed to make folding phones cool.”

“I'm really glad that Samsung finally gave us an alternative form factor in the folding phone body. I think a lot of people are going to like this.”

“Having used this phone for the last week. [...] everything this phone removed is something that I never really used. And everything that it added is something that I was looking forward to.”

“For example, it's light enough that I stop thinking about it in my pocket or while I'm holding it to take pictures or videos. The cover screen feels like a phone instead of a compromise.”

“The ZFold 8 gives that screen to everyone else. And the uncomfortable punchline is that after a week using this phone, I'm apparently everyone else.”

“The problem the Z Fold8 Ultra has, and it's a nice problem for Samsung to have, is this. This, I think, is going to tempt a lot of people away from what would have been the obvious choice.”

“In different orientations, you can see that the Fold 8 looks different, whereas the Z Fold8 Ultra looks pretty much the same. That's important because this has more utility for that reason. I think it feels more like a book like that, for instance, and a little bit more tablet-like like that.”

“This phone's pretty sick, mostly. Like, you can tell right away it's a genuinely new form factor.”

“if you can find the right audience who obviously has money to spend but wants something that genuinely feels new, like, really feels new, then then you might just have something.”

“Now, with such a stratospheric price and Apple's answering volley just over the horizon, the Galaxy Fold8 isn't likely to spawn a revolution. But it's such a solid phone that it makes clear something none of its predecessors were polished enough to do. This is the future of large format foldables, as I see it. And maybe it's what they should have been from the beginning.”

“Instead, I find myself committing to the compact one despite those drawbacks because, well, because it just feels right.”

“The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is shorter and wider, and that means it behaves differently in different use cases than the taller and narrower Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra.”

“you can fit more text across the screen on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 than on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra.”

“I'm not a huge fan of how the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8's keyboard takes up more of the screen.”

“Absolutely wonderful proportions and size, especially when folded. God, how I missed this type of smartphone. Please, let it sell well.”

“A very good phone, sensational, not to be confused with revolutionary, because it's far from revolutionary. However, it's sensational, and it's great that Samsung and Apple, Apple or Samsung, it doesn't matter to me, have picked up on this trend started by Oppo, and then by Google, and introduced these proportions.”

“I recommend it, as long as you accept these prices.”

“It is one of the best phones I've ever used, and I cannot stop picking it up. It's just a brilliant little device.”

“I think because this feels so natural, whether it's closed or open, whatever you're doing with it, and you you just find yourself naturally using it in the in the in the in the right way. And because that will absolutely replace tablets for a lot of people, I think this is going to have a much wider appeal.”

“But, the whole package, it's it's really worth the money.”

“It's really light. This is so crazy. I was so convinced I had the conclusion until I held it like this, exactly like this. This is pretty cool.”

“Oh, that aspect ratio is really tough. And it's really expensive. Man, it's like it's cool tech, you know?”

“You know what? I'm convinced to at least try it. I'm going to I got to give it a shot cuz even though there have been phones that have this this squatter unfolding form factor, I have never daily driven one. So, this is it. This is your one chance to win me over, form factor.”

“a review of this device will appear later this week.”

“Okay, other than the no flex mode. I literally love this phone. And this phone has what I like to call the I can't put it down factor.”

“the Z Fold 8, you're gonna love this one. You're gonna love this outer display. That's what this one is all about. Outer display.”

“I just wish I had flex mode and I wish I had the S Pen, but look at that. Minimum creasage. Okay, the camera on this dope. Okay, [...] The camera. Immaculate.”

“I would buy it, that there is simply less in a cooler shape, if it cost 5000, but in the basic version it costs 8500. This basic version, in my opinion, has too little memory for this type of smartphone, so you would have to buy the non-basic one, which costs 9500.”

“we are excluded from new technological products due to high prices”

“The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 is Samsung's wide foldable. It has a similar shape to a passport.”

“The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 brings a fresh new form factor to the Z Fold series, while the Ultra stays tall and thin with a bigger battery and the higher-powered cameras.”

“I thought I was going to hate this. Okay, I thought I was going to hate this phone, but after playing around with it for a few minutes, I'm starting to like it.”

“This is what made me fall in love with this though. Look at this. Now, why do I keep getting Look at this. Now, this is full screen. This is how I want to watch my videos in the palm of my hand. The full screen play. [...] No black bars. We're down to zero. Full display.”

“the proportions are the key factor in its case.”

“And I'll tell you, I don't know if I'm buying it. So far, I've spent too little time with the device, but I can already see that in various scenarios, the black bars are visible anyway, just in different places, and the small, wide external screen might limit the functionality of apps not adapted to this format.”

“The device is thicker, 4.5 mm when unfolded and 9.7 mm when folded. It has only two cameras. [...] The processor, screen types, memory versions, and connectivity are also identical to its sibling.”

“this smaller phone is actually really interesting.”

“the more I use it and hold it and just mess around with it, I'm not going to lie, the more I'm liking it.”

“I'm really impressed by how much I like the smaller Fold, and I can really see myself... dailying it.”

“This phone is absolutely awesome. I think it's going to be great for both men and women. It's going to be pocketable, but also very powerful. And the biggest benefit of this is that the aspect ratio actually makes sense for watching videos.”

“So, in many ways, this phone is like a way for people who liked the Flip because of the size to experience the benefits of the Fold in the past where you have a much bigger display and you get multitasking and two apps and things like that, but, you know, not compromising. It's kind of a really nice middle ground where you get the best of both worlds.”

“But my thoughts on it overall, I'm very excited, very bullish on this this form factor. I think a lot of people are going to like it.”

“But the Fold 8 is a very weirdly positioned phone. By the way, you'd expect this to just be the direct successor to the Fold 7. But actually, if you make that comparison, you'll find it's more of a sidegrade than an upgrade.”

“I would say there's definitely merit to this new wider form factor. But I was expecting this phone to either do more or cost less. Considering that for this price, you could buy a top-end ultra phone and an iPad, which would give you a higherend smartphone experience and a better big screen movie experience. It just feels really hard to justify.”

“You see what I mean, though? It's a little bit all over the place, right? It's good that you get the usual 20%ish improvement to performance with the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a bigger battery. Basically, the first battery upgrade ever for the Fold from 4,400 to 4,800 mAh, and faster charging, too, from 25 W to 45 W with wireless charging also getting a bump from 15 to 20. But these are very conservative changes.”

“At this stage, I'm a bit smitten.”

“That's probably why this phone, first of all, why I like the new Fold, the one that looks like a passport, is because when you take it in your hand, you have the impression, at least in my hand, switch your hand to the screens and see if you have the same hand as me. To be fooled by such things. In my hand, this smartphone fits well. I can reach every corner of this smartphone with my thumb.”

“201 g gives it the perfect amount of heft. As soon as I picked it up, I suspected this would become my new go-to foldable. There's just something so right about the way this feels.”

“For nearly $1,900, I need a good telephoto camera.”

“This is the first time since the iPhone Air, I think, that I've picked up a device, a phone in recent years, and immediately and without any prompting, I've I've just kind of gone, wow, it's really really impressive. It's you you want it immediately. As soon as you pick it up, you think the I need this. This is this is the phone I've been waiting for.”

“I think I think Samsung has possibly nailed the foldable form factor. And I think people who have been holding off because these a bit too expensive and just hard to justify, this could change their mind.”

“Holy cow. I'm going with the short one. Crazy. I'm going to go with the short one. I'm going to try that out. I'm going to live that life. I am really I am properly into that thing. I'm going to lose the telephoto lens if I go this direction. I'm going to save a couple of dollars. Battery is probably going to be the same because you're powering a slightly smaller display anyway.”

“It just feels very confidence inspiring in the hand, not topheavy. I feel a lot less like I'm going to drop it and you get a better native aspect ratio for watching video without losing so much to black bars or cropping. Very interesting.”