Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: The 6 biggest announcements

Samsung’s yearly summertime arena kicked disconnected connected Wednesday greeting pinch the institution unveiling a caller lineup of watches and foldables. Following weeks of rumors and leaks, Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Fold 8 pinch a wholly caller creation that’s shorter and wider than past year’s Fold, a caller “Ultra” Fold, an updated Flip model, and refreshed versions of the Galaxy smartwatches.

If you weren’t capable to watch the arena yourself, you tin drawback up pinch each of this year’s biggest Galaxy Unpacked announcements below.

The item of Galaxy Unpacked was the Galaxy Z Fold 8, which sewage a awesome redesign from past year’s Z Fold 7. The caller creation is shorter and wider, pinch a 7.6-inch wrong show and a 5.5-inch extracurricular display. It’s a tad thicker astatine 4.5mm unfolded and 9.7mm folded, compared to 4.2mm and 8.9mm, respectively, for the Z Fold 7.

The caller Fold besides features an updated hinge creation pinch Samsung’s caller Flex Titanium show tech. It doesn’t wholly destruct the crease connected the wrong display, but it does make it importantly little noticeable than the crease connected Samsung’s erstwhile foldables. The caller Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8 besides sewage the Flex Titanium show upgrade.

The Z Fold 8 runs connected a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy pinch up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The camera setup is simply a measurement down from the Z Fold 7 — the Z Fold 8 has 2 main cameras alternatively of three, a 50MP wide and a 50MP ultra wide. The screen surface camera and wrong camera are some 10MP for illustration the Z Fold 7, though.

The Z Fold 8 starts astatine $1,899 and comes successful 4 colors: lavender, graphite, cream, and pistachio (for online orders only).

While the modular Z Fold 8 sewage a revamped design, the caller Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra inherited the creation from past year’s Z Fold 7. Samsung’s caller top-tier foldable is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy pinch up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage.

The Ultra features a larger 5,000mAh battery, compared to the 4,400mAh artillery successful the Z Fold 7. The telephone besides supports 45W wired charging and 20W wireless charging, an betterment complete the Z Fold 7’s 25W wired / 15W wireless charging. The camera setup is akin to the Z Fold 7 pinch a 200MP wide / 50MP ultra wide / 10MP telephoto main camera and 10MP selfie cameras connected the wrong and screen displays.

The Z Fold 8 Ultra starts astatine $2,099 and comes successful 4 colors: graphite, cream, violet shadow, and greenish protector (for online orders only).

Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Flip 8 pinch immoderate spec bumps, but nary awesome creation changes. It now runs connected a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, an upgrade from the Exynos 2500 spot that powered the erstwhile Z Flip 7. It besides includes 12GB of RAM pinch options for 256GB aliases 512GB of retention (but still nary 1TB option).

Like past year’s model, it has a 6.9-inch wrong show and a 4.1-inch screen display, pinch a 4,300mAh battery. While it looks the aforesaid overall, the screen show is simply a spot much versatile now acknowledgment to a fewer caller gestures and entree to an app drawer. It’s besides somewhat thinner astatine 13.1mm folded and 6.1mm unfolded. Unfortunately, it’s besides $100 much costly than the Flip 7, starting astatine $1,199. The telephone comes successful 4 colors: pink, graphite, cream, and mint (for online orders only).

The Galaxy Watch sewage a refresh astatine Galaxy Unpacked pinch a caller processor, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear Elite. It erstwhile again comes successful 2 sizes, 44mm and 40mm. The larger 44mm exemplary has a 1.47-inch show and a 445mAh battery, while the 40mm type includes a somewhat smaller 1.34-inch show and a 390mAh battery. Samsung says some sizes tin past up to 30 hours per complaint pinch the always-on show turned on. Both besides see 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.

In summation to spec improvements, the item of this year’s Galaxy Watch refresh are 4 caller preventative wellness metrics: Vitals, Heart Health Score, Daily Cardio Load, and Fitness Index. All 4 will besides beryllium disposable connected the caller Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, and whitethorn thief Samsung’s smartwatches compete pinch Apple’s wearables.

Unfortunately, the Galaxy Watch 9 sewage a $30 value bump from past year, truthful it now starts astatine $379. The 44mm type comes successful graphite and metallic while the 40mm 1 is disposable successful graphite and cream.

Samsung announced the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, not to beryllium confused pinch the second-generation type of the original Galaxy Watch Ultra from past year. The caller Ultra includes a importantly larger artillery astatine a whopping 800mAh, up from 590mAh successful past year’s Ultra, which someway fits into a lawsuit that’s 12 percent thinner than the erstwhile model. Samsung says it tin past up to 60 hours per complaint pinch the always-on show turned on. The updated Ultra is besides getting the aforesaid caller preventative wellness metrics arsenic the guidelines Galaxy Watch.

The Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 runs connected a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear Elite pinch 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. Like the erstwhile version, it’s disposable successful conscionable 1 size, 47mm, pinch a 1.52-inch display. The Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 besides sewage a $50 value hike, bringing it up to $699, pinch 2 colour options, titanium metallic and titanium gray.

Google besides made an quality astatine this year’s Galaxy Unpacked pinch a mates of caller frames for the upcoming smartglasses it’s making successful collaboration pinch Samsung. It unveiled caller designs from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, pursuing two earlier designs from some brands announced successful May astatine Google I/O. The first pairs of Google’s smartglasses are expected to motorboat later this year.