{"id":718508,"date":"2026-07-30T05:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718508\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:04:14","slug":"samsung-scores-record-pre-orders-for-the-galaxy-z-fold8-fold8-ultra-and-flip8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718508\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung scores record pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung unveiled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_z_fold_wide_5g-14673.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Z Fold8<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_z_fold8_ultra_5g-14802.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_z_flip8_5g-14803.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Z Flip8<\/a> last week, and then started taking pre-orders for them. The pre-order campaign has already been incredibly successful in India, as Samsung has today revealed that it has taken record numbers of pre-orders for the lineup &#8211; 271,000 within the first 72 hours, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785387854_960_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung scores record pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, it took 15 days to reach the same number of pre-orders for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_z_flip7-13712.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Z Flip7<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_z_fold7-13826.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Z Fold7<\/a>. 45% of pre-orders for the Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8 were from Tier 2 cities and below, which Samsung thinks signifies &#8220;massive untapped market potential&#8221;. The company also says this reflects &#8220;not only the widespread appeal of foldable smartphones but also the shifting consumer landscape, where innovation is no longer confined to metropolitan hubs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy Z Flip8 starts at INR 124,999 (approximately $1,306), the Galaxy Z Fold8 at INR 179,999 ($1,881), and the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra at INR 199,999 ($2,090). If you want to learn more about the three, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/galaxy_z_fold8_z_fold8_ultra_z_flp8_handson-review-2982.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check out our detailed written hands-on review<\/a> or watch our hands-on video below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/in\/samsung-galaxy-z-fold8-ultra-galaxy-z-fold8-galaxy-z-flip8-post-record-pre-orders-in-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold8, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip8 last week, and then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718508","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=718508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}