{"id":296737,"date":"2025-12-03T13:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296737\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:07:30","slug":"samsung-h8-foldable-rears-its-head-as-rumoured-apple-iphone-fold-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296737\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung ‘H8’ foldable rears its head as rumoured Apple iPhone Fold rival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung has finally presented the Galaxy Z TriFold internationally<\/a> after months of waiting. For reference, the company’s first tri-folding smartphone will not be available in select markets for another week. In the meantime, details of another new foldable have emerged courtesy of IMEI databases.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Samsung has been spotted connecting a device with the model number ‘SM-F971U’ to mobile networks. As\u00a0SmartPrix<\/a>\u00a0summarises, ‘F971U’ departs from Samsung’s conventional foldable nomenclature. For instance, recent Galaxy Z Flip models have maintained SM-F7x6 model numbers. By contrast, the Galaxy Z Fold7<\/a> (curr. $1,599 on Amazon)<\/a> carries over the SM-F9x6 model numbers from older models.<\/p>\n

Thus, the SM-F971U would appear to relate to a new model altogether. Not the Galaxy Z TriFold, the GSMA database result adds that Samsung is prototyping this mystery device internally by the codename ‘H8’. Potentially, this GSMA result could be the first sighting of the so-called Galaxy Z ‘Wide Fold’, which was rumoured in September<\/a> to be adopting a 1:1 aspect ratio inner display to rival the long-awaited Apple iPhone Fold. Launch details for Samsung’s alternative remain unknown for now, though.<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/a>Alex Alderson<\/a> – Senior Tech Writer – 13799 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2018<\/p>\n

Prior to writing and translating for Notebookcheck, I worked for various companies including Apple and Neowin. I have a BA in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds, which I have since converted to a Law Degree. Happy to chat on Twitter or Notebookchat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung has finally presented the Galaxy Z TriFold internationally after months of waiting. For reference, the company’s first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2596,268,15558,41623,119720,119722,97886,269,119723,262,2306,267,261,270,266,263,129,1560,5346,119721,86,265,264,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-296737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-benchmarks","tag-foldable","tag-galaxy-z-fold","tag-galaxy-z-fold-8","tag-galaxy-z-fold-wide","tag-galaxy-z-fold8","tag-graphics-card","tag-h8","tag-laptop","tag-mobile","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-processor","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy","tag-sm-f971u","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}