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.
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.
And through that pursuit, Galaxy Z Fold5 weighed 253 grams, and Galaxy Z Fold6 reduced its weight further to 239 grams.
With Galaxy Z Fold7 came an even more ambitious goal:
“Could a foldable be lighter than a bar-type flagship smartphone?”
At the time, Galaxy S25 Ultra — one of Samsung’s flagship bar-type smartphones —weighed 218 grams.
The development team set an even lighter target for Galaxy Z Fold7: 215 grams. Galaxy 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 — 52 grams lighter than Galaxy Z Fold5. At 201 grams, Galaxy Z Fold8 is the world’s lightest fold.
