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Today's flagships fit in your pocket, yet unfold into tablets. They rival a laptop for power, run AI effortlessly, and shoot well enough to retire your DSLR. We bring you comprehensive, launch-day coverage of the world's most advanced phones, in 16 languages.
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July 23, 2026
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 · The wide fold goes global, at 201 grams
Samsung has redrawn its most important foldable. The new Galaxy Z Fold8 folds into a short, wide, passport-like phone with a 5.5-inch cover screen, and opens sideways into a wide 7.6-inch 4:3 tablet that finally plays films without thick black bars. At 201 g it is the lightest Galaxy Fold ever, it runs the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy with a 4,800 mAh battery, and it makes the wide-fold shape properly available worldwide for the first time. Pre-orders are open at $1,899.99 / €1,999 / £1,699, on sale from 7 August 2026.
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July 23, 2026
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra · The first Ultra foldable is 4.1 mm thin and carries a 200 MP camera
Samsung's first Ultra-branded foldable opens to an 8-inch, 3,000-nit workspace inside a body just 4.1 mm thin, and at 215 g it is the lightest of the modern foldables we cover. A 200 MP main camera, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, a 5,000 mAh battery with 45 W charging and seven years of updates complete the sheet. Pre-orders are open at $2,099.99 / €2,199 / £1,899, with general availability from 7 August 2026.
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July 23, 2026
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 · The slimmest Flip yet puts AI on the cover screen
Samsung's clamshell slims down and smartens up. The Galaxy Z Flip8 is the thinnest and lightest Flip ever at 6.1 mm unfolded and 180 g, its 4.1-inch FlexWindow becomes an AI-native cover screen with Now Brief and Gemini automations, and a 4,300 mAh battery promises up to 31 hours of video. Samsung's own Exynos 2600 runs the show. Pre-orders are open at $1,199.99 / €1,299 / £1,149, on sale from 7 August 2026.
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July 14, 2026
Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max and Pura 90s Pro go global · A 200 MP telephoto leads the way
Huawei brought the Pura 90s Pro Max and its smaller Pura 90s Pro sibling to the world stage in Kuala Lumpur, led by a 200 MP 1/1.28-inch telephoto, a variable-aperture 50 MP main camera, 100 W wired charging and 5G. EMUI 16 still comes without preloaded Google services – but AppGallery now guides their install, so the caveat that really remains is banking apps that insist on Play Integrity.
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July 1, 2026
Motorola Signature · Four 50 MP cameras and a flagship chip in a 6.99 mm body
Motorola's Signature opens a new ultra-premium line, and it makes a real entrance: at 6.99 mm and 186 g it is the thinnest flagship we cover, yet it still carries a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, four 50 MP cameras with a DXOMARK Gold Label, a 6.8-inch 165 Hz screen that peaks at 6,200 nits, a 5,200 mAh silicon-carbon battery and 90 W charging. It launched from £899.99, and five months on it already sells for less, which makes a real flagship feel almost attainable.
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June 27, 2026
vivo X Fold6 · A 200 MP ZEISS camera and a 7,000 mAh battery in a 4.4 mm book fold, China first
vivo just put a real flagship camera into a thin foldable. The X Fold6 pairs a 200 MP ZEISS main and a 50 MP ZEISS APO periscope with a 7,000 mAh dual-cell battery in a body that opens to 4.4 mm, runs the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Super Edition, and carries an unusually complete IPX8/IPX9 + IP5X rating with underwater folding. It launches in China from ¥7,999 (≈ €1,025) – no global version yet.
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June 20, 2026
vivo X300 Pro · The 200 MP ZEISS periscope flagship that has quietly become a bargain
vivo's X300 Pro builds a full ZEISS camera flagship around a 200 MP periscope, a large 1/1.28-inch main sensor and the new MediaTek Dimensity 9500, in a body that stays under 8 mm. It launched at €1,399, but eight months on it sells for around €1,100 in Europe, and barely over €1,000 imported, and with the next generation already on the horizon, this matured flagship has become one of the best camera-phone deals you can make right now.
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June 19, 2026
Sony Xperia 1 VIII · The flagship that keeps the headphone jack and rebuilds its zoom
Sony's 2026 flagship doubles down on what everyone else dropped: a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a microSD slot and a dedicated camera shutter button. The big change is a new telephoto camera with a sensor roughly four times larger than the Xperia 1 VII's, paired with an AI Camera Assistant and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Here is what is new, what it costs and when it ships.
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June 15, 2026
Motorola Razr Ultra · The most powerful flip yet, with a 5,000‑nit screen and a LOFIC camera
Motorola's clamshell goes all-in. The Razr Ultra pairs the brightest inner screen and the biggest battery of any flip with the real Snapdragon 8 Elite, not the step-down chip in the book-style Razr Fold, and leads with a new 50 MP LOFIC main camera that Motorola says captures up to six times the dynamic range of last year's model. It lands at $1,499.99 in the US, and €1,299.99 in Europe as the Razr 70 Ultra.
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June 14, 2026
Huawei Pura X Max · The world's first wide-fold is a beautiful idea you cannot buy outside China
Huawei just invented a new kind of foldable. The Pura X Max unfolds into a wide, 1.4:1 7.7-inch tablet instead of the near-square screen of an ordinary fold, pairs a 10-stop variable-aperture 50 MP camera with a 3.5× periscope, and runs HarmonyOS NEXT. But it stays behind China's borders, with no Android apps and no global release.
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June 12, 2026
Motorola Razr Fold · The first book-style Razr arrives with the best foldable camera on the market
After seven years of flip phones, the Razr family finally opens like a book. Motorola's first book-style foldable undercuts the Galaxy Z Fold7 on price, packs a 6,000 mAh battery, and DXOMARK rates its triple 50 MP camera as the best ever tested on a foldable.
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June 12, 2026
Galaxy Z TriFold · The 10‑inch triple-fold was real, and it is already sold out
Samsung's first triple-folding phone packs a 10-inch screen into a pocketable 12.9 mm body with panels as thin as 3.9 mm, and it became a collector's item in months: the limited run is now officially sold out, and Europe never got a single unit.
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