Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked 2026: Check out the company's latest Galaxy foldables and watches

Thinner watches, wider foldables, higher prices. Sam Rutherford for Engadget Samsung has gotten a jump on the traditional fall hardware season over the last few years by announcing its Galaxy foldable and smartwatch lineups each July. The company is sticking to that approach this year with a mid-summer reveal of three new phones: the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Flip 8. Samsung also unveiled the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 smartwatches. The phones have a few things in common. For instance, all three run on the same chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy. The base models come with the same memory and storage options — 12GB of RAM with 256GB or 512GB of storage. The two Fold 8 variants each have a configuration with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of internal