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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 in Lavender, folded and held in one hand against a FOLD backdrop

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.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra in Violet Shadow, opened, showing the rear cameras and inner display

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.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 in Pink, one unit open and one closed showing the FlexWindow

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.

Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max in Blush Gold, front and rear, on a warm neutral background

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.

Motorola Signature in PANTONE Martini Olive, front and back

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.

vivo X Fold6 in Blue Hole, shown folded with its round ZEISS camera island

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.

vivo X300 Pro in Phantom Black, front and back

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.

Sony Xperia 1 VIII in Native Gold, showing the new ORE design and the camera module

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.

Motorola Razr Ultra open, showing the 7-inch inner display in PANTONE Orient Blue

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.

Huawei Pura X Max in Interstellar Blue, folded showing the camera bar and unfolded into a wide 1.4:1 tablet, held in two hands

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.

Motorola Razr Fold in PANTONE Blackened Blue and Lily White, folded and unfolded

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.

Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold unfolded, showing the 10-inch main display with Galaxy AI branding

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.

OPPO Find N6 unfolded, showing the flat 8.12-inch inner display

June 12, 2026

OPPO Find N6 · The first foldable where the crease simply is not there

For seven years, every foldable review carried the same paragraph about the crease. OPPO just deleted it. The Find N6 pairs a flex glass that smooths itself with a 3D liquid-printed titanium hinge, then adds a 200 MP Hasselblad camera and a real stylus that works on both screens.

OPPO Find X9 Ultra in Tundra Umber and Canyon Orange with the Hasselblad camera module

June 12, 2026

OPPO Find X9 Ultra goes global · The world's first 10× optical telephoto on a phone

OPPO's camera flagship finally gets a global launch, and it brings hardware nobody saw coming: a periscope that folds light five times to reach a true 10× optical zoom, two 200 MP Hasselblad cameras, and a 7,050 mAh silicon-carbon battery. The longest built-in optical reach of any phone on the market.

vivo X300 Ultra in Alpine White, Steppe Green and Volcano Black, backs and front

June 12, 2026

vivo X300 Ultra · The first global vivo Ultra brings CIPA 7.0 and screw-on ZEISS lenses

For the first time ever, vivo is selling its Ultra outside China, and it arrives ready to compete: three large-sensor ZEISS cameras, the highest stabilization rating ever put on a phone, and actual screw-on telephoto lenses. At €1,999 it is a camera that happens to make calls.

Xiaomi 17 Ultra in Starlit Green held up by hand in front of a giant Ultra lettering

June 12, 2026

Xiaomi 17 Ultra goes global · A 75–100 mm zooming telephoto and a 1‑inch sensor for €1,499

Xiaomi's camera flagship arrived in Barcelona with hardware nobody else ships: a 200 MP Leica telephoto that mechanically zooms from 75 to 100 mm, and the first 1-inch sensor with LOFIC HDR technology. At €1,499, unchanged from last year, it is the photography phone of early 2026.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in Cobalt Violet, close-up of the camera module with the S Pen

June 12, 2026

Galaxy S26 Ultra · The world's first Privacy Display phone is the 2026 benchmark slab

Samsung's 2026 flagship pairs the world's first built-in Privacy Display with a brighter 200 MP f/1.4 camera, a customized Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and, finally, 60 W charging. It swept up the GLOMO Best in Show award at MWC and more than 70% of S26 pre-order customers picked it. Here is why.

HONOR Magic8 Pro in Sunrise Gold, official key visual

June 11, 2026

HONOR Magic8 Pro · A 200 MP periscope, a giant battery, and a catch for Europe

HONOR's AI camera flagship pairs a 200 MP periscope telephoto with the biggest battery ever fitted to a Magic Pro, unless you buy it in Europe, where the official spec sheet quietly lists a smaller cell. Here is everything the official pages actually say.

HONOR Magic V6 lineup in all four global colors: Ivory White, Ferghana Red, Sunrise Gold and Classic Black

June 11, 2026

HONOR Magic V6 goes global · The thinnest foldable on the market packs a 6,660 mAh battery

Three months after its Barcelona reveal, HONOR's flagship foldable is finally on sale outside China. It is the thinnest foldable you can buy, it carries the largest battery ever fitted to a globally sold foldable, and Europe is next in line.