Samsung Electronics West Africa on Wednesday strengthened its leadership in the foldable smartphone market with the unveiling of its most advanced Galaxy Z lineup yet, introducing devices designed to make foldable technology more accessible while delivering enhanced productivity, entertainment and personal expression.
Leading the new lineup is the all-new Galaxy Z Fold8, a next-generation foldable smartphone that ushers in a new era of mobile experiences through a refreshed design and innovative form factor tailored to the way people work, explore, discover and enjoy content.
The latest Galaxy Z series marks a significant evolution in Samsung’s foldable portfolio, opening a new chapter with distinct experiences built around Ultra-level productivity, immersive content consumption and seamless self-expression.
By combining cutting-edge engineering with user-focused design, the new lineup aims to bring foldable devices to a broader audience while redefining what users can expect from premium smartphones.
The Galaxy Z Fold8, in particular, introduces a fresh and exciting new shape that delivers a more refined foldable experience, enabling users to transition effortlessly between productivity and entertainment while taking full advantage of its expansive display and versatile design.
The lineup also includes Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, which brings Galaxy’s renowned Ultra standard to foldables with maximum productivity and content creation in a larger workspace.
Built on seven generations of foldable innovation and consumer insight, the new Galaxy Z series gives users more choice than ever, with distinct experiences engineered to fit different needs. The Galaxy Flip 8 was also released globally but is not available in Nigeria.
Galaxy AI has been optimized for each of these form factors. Across the lineup, every insight feels more actionable, and every action feels more connected. Multitasking is easier on the larger screens of Galaxy Z Fold8 and Fold8 Ultra, and with partner AI experiences such as Gemini Intelligence, Galaxy gives users even more ways to get things done in fewer steps — with transparency, privacy and user control built in.
The All-New Galaxy Z Fold8: A New Galaxy Fold Experience for Everyday Immersion
Galaxy Z Fold8 is reimagined for users who want a foldable that feels natural in the moments when curiosity turns into deeper discovery.
Fold8 introduces a form factor designed to move easily from quick interactions on the cover screen to deeper viewing, reading and gaming on the main display. With intuitive display ratios and long-lasting performance, Fold8 makes it easier to get the most out of the content, stories and ideas that matter.
Built for Discovery
Galaxy Z Fold8’s display ratios are designed around the way people naturally consume content throughout the day. By adapting the screen to the content, Fold8 creates a more immersive experience whether users are browsing, watching, reading or gaming.
At just 201 g, Fold8 is Samsung’s lightest Galaxy Z Fold yet. Despite its lightweight design, it combines the Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform for Galaxy with a larger 4,800 mAh battery, delivering smooth, responsive performance and lasting power so users can stay immersed longer.
- When folded, the 10:16 cover screen feels familiar and comfortable for the short moments people return to most often, such as messaging, social updates, browsing and short-form video.
- When unfolded, the 4:3 main display creates a larger canvas that helps users lose themselves in games and films.
- When rotated, the same display ratio becomes naturally suited to reading, giving users a more comfortable way to settle into articles, e-books and long-form content without carrying another device.
- Together, these display ratios are designed around the way people naturally consume content, helping Fold8 feel more immersive whether users are quickly checking in or settling in for longer sessions.
A Display Engineered From the Inside Out
Across the new Galaxy Z series, Samsung’s display engineering expertise serves as the foundation for a more refined foldable experience, supporting slimmer designs, greater durability and more seamless viewing.
- Samsung’s new Flex Titanium technology introduces a titanium-based display structure designed to help make foldables thinner while maintaining durability. Combining a titanium-alloy film with an enhanced titanium plate, Flex Titanium helps strengthen display support, absorb pressure and impact, and reduce crease visibility over time. This structure also refines the way the device opens, balancing hinge mechanics, display tension and magnetic force to make unfolding feel smoother, lighter and more natural.
- With up to 3,000 nits of brightness, Vision Booster and a low-reflection display finish, the main screen stays vivid and easy to see even in outdoor settings.
A Clear and Versatile Camera Experience
Galaxy Z Fold8 is designed to help users capture and share the moments that catch their attention. Whether it’s a sweeping landscape, a group shot, or a spontaneous moment on the move, Fold8 makes everyday photography and video feel easier to capture, edit, and share.
- Dual 50 MP cameras deliver consistent high-resolution detail across wide and ultra-wide perspectives, helping preserve image quality across different scenes and shooting conditions.
- Dual Recording lets users capture both sides of the moment while previewing themselves through the cover screen, making reactions and shared experiences easier to frame.
- My FanCam automatically tracks a selected subject and reframes footage into a preferred aspect ratio, turning dynamic scenes into social-ready videos with less manual editing.
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra: The Ultra Foldable Built for Maximum Productivity
Ultra represents Galaxy’s highest standard for performance, capability and innovation. With Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, that standard meets Samsung’s most advanced foldable design.
Its expansive 8-inch main display opens up a productive workspace for multitasking, while its advanced camera system and long-lasting battery help users create throughout the day. All of this comes in Galaxy’s slimmest Z Fold design yet — measuring just 4.1 mm when unfolded and weighing 215 g,1 it pushes the standard for productivity on the go.
Professional-Grade Creativity with an Ultra-Level Camera System
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra is built to give creators more freedom from capture to edit, with an Ultra-level camera system and creative tools that make high-quality content easier to produce from one device.
- The 200 MP main camera system captures rich, detailed photos with greater clarity, and is now enhanced with High Dynamic Range (HDR) capability in 200 MP mode for more true-to-life images.7.
- A new 50 MP ultra-wide camera brings greater detail and clarity to wider scenes and macro shots, giving users more flexibility when capturing landscapes, interiors, group shots and close-up details.
- Improved Nightography7 helps photos and videos look brighter and clearer in low light, so users can capture standout moments even in challenging lighting conditions.
- For advanced creators, 8K video recording through the new APV codec gives users greater flexibility and quality for editing and production workflows, while Cine LUT adds cinematic color and tone control directly from a mobile device.
Power, Battery and Cooling Built for All-Day Productivity
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra is engineered to stay fast, responsive and reliable through the most demanding workloads, from heavier multitasking and content creation to AI-powered workflows.
- With Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform for Galaxy3 at its core, Fold8 Ultra delivers the performance users need to switch between apps, work across a larger screen and keep demanding tasks moving smoothly.
- A larger 5,000 mAh battery helps users stay productive for longer, supporting a full day of work, creation, and entertainment in a slimmer foldable design.
- Fold8 Ultra introduces a new dual-path charging architecture with 45W fast charging, helping distribute power more efficiently across the battery system for faster, more stable, and reliable charging throughout the day.
- Fold8 Ultra uses an expanded graphite cooling structure engineered for improved thermal conductivity, helping dissipate heat more effectively to keep the device responsive during demanding tasks.
A New Class of Agentic Experiences Optimized for Foldables
As the most personal device people carry, the phone has become the primary entry point where AI meets users — and the new Galaxy Z series sets the tone for the next generation of mobile AI experiences.
Galaxy AI now works across more apps and services, with experiences optimized for foldable form factors. By understanding what matters to each user and helping turn insights into action, Galaxy AI becomes more personal, proactive and useful throughout the day.
- Now Brief helps users stay informed with personalized insights tailored to their routines, interests and daily needs through expanded scenarios, customizable briefing cards and personalized recommendations. It now also surfaces security and privacy insights, helping users stay on top of potential risks and protective actions.
- Now Nudge helps turn insights into action. When plans begin to take shape in a conversation, AI can surface relevant next steps such as checking a schedule, finding a place, or saving a location. On foldables, users can continue the conversation side by side on larger displays.
- Gemini Intelligence helps users move from request to result with fewer steps. Users can simply describe what they need or even add screen or image context. App automation can now work across more than 40 supported apps and services, with capabilities ranging from looking up tickets to finding a nearby restaurant and making a reservation. With Gemini Notebook, users can bring together notes, images, recordings, files, and documents in one persistent workspace to collect, organize, and develop their ideas. Drag-and-drop support in Split view makes the workflow even more intuitive, allowing users to easily add multiple files and images and turn their content into audio overviews, infographics, reports, meeting recaps, visual summaries, documents, and more.
- AI experiences become more connected and contextual when the new Galaxy Z series is connected with Galaxy Watch Ultra2 and the Galaxy Watch9 series. From wellness insights to daily routines and connected actions, Galaxy AI helps users move more seamlessly between devices with timely personalized support throughout the day.
Together, these experiences show how Galaxy AI is becoming a more capable and proactive companion, helping users accomplish more with less effort. Across the lineup, foldable form factors make these experiences easier to access throughout the day.
Security and Privacy Built Into the Experience
As AI becomes more personal and agentic, trust continues to be a critical foundation of the experience. Users need to know how their data is used, understand what AI is doing on their behalf, and stay in control of the choices that shape their experience.
With the new Galaxy Z series, Samsung builds that trust into the device from the start, keeping personal data secure while giving users transparency, choice, and control over how their information is used.
Samsung Knox protects every Galaxy device from the chip up, with a multi-layered approach that includes on-device personalization and user-controlled cloud processing, as well as future-ready protections such as ecosystem-wide protection through Samsung Knox Matrix.
For on-device AI, Personal Data Engine (PDE) enables context-aware, personalized AI experiences. To protect PDE, Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP) creates encrypted, app-specific storage environments, while Knox Vault adds a tamper-resistant physical layer for sensitive information.
These system-level protections work together with Advanced Intelligence settings and Personal Data Intelligence to help users control how AI features manage and use personal data.
One UI 9 also introduces a new AI Assistant Activity dashboard, giving users a centralized view of AI automations running on their behalf. Instead of moving across multiple apps and services to understand what happened, users can review AI actions in one place and navigate directly to the relevant agent for additional context and settings.
The new Galaxy Z series also brings enhanced Privacy Alerts that proactively notify users about potential privacy risks, including unnecessary attempts to access background permissions, helping them respond before those risks become invisible.
These updates build on Galaxy’s existing security and privacy portfolio, which includes Auto Blocker, Theft Protection, Private Sharing, Secure Wi-Fi and more. Together, these advancements help users take a more active role in managing personal data and AI activities, with transparency, clearer choices and stronger protections at the core of their experience — helping ensure that more personal AI experiences remain grounded in trust.
Getting Started With the New Galaxy Z Series
Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Fold8 are available for pre-order in Nigeria starting today. All models are available in Graphite and Cream, with Violet Shadow exclusive to Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Lavender to Galaxy Z Fold8.
The new Galaxy Z series will bring the benefits of advanced AI closer to users’ daily lives by providing a 6-month free trial of Google AI Pro, including 5 TB of cloud storage per month. With the expanded access to Google’s most capable AI models, users can boost their productivity and creativity on the foldable screen anytime they want.
Switching to Galaxy is also now easier than ever, thanks to a more seamless migration experience across a wider range of devices. With the updated Smart Switch, iOS users can scan a QR code on their current devices and wirelessly transfer data without downloading additional apps.
Smart Switch can also bring over additional types of data including passwords and passkeys, call history, accessibility settings, eSIM data, and more, helping reduce the time needed to set up a new device. And with Quick Share’s new compatibility with AirDrop, sharing files between iOS and Galaxy devices is now seamless in both directions.
To give users peace of mind after upgrading, Samsung Care+ offers comprehensive protection with fast repairs for accidental damage, extended warranty coverage and certified expert support at home and abroad, making it easier to stay covered wherever life takes them.
Customers who purchase a new Galaxy foldable on Samsung.com and enroll in a monthly Samsung Care+ plan will receive the first three months of coverage at no cost.
With One UI 9, the new Warranty and care settings hub also makes it easy to enroll in, access, and manage Samsung Care+, alongside warranty information, self-diagnostics, repair requests, and remote support — all from one convenient place on the device.