{"id":5258,"date":"2026-07-29T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/samsungs-galaxy-z-fold-8-feels-like-the-future\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:22:03","slug":"samsungs-galaxy-z-fold-8-feels-like-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/samsungs-galaxy-z-fold-8-feels-like-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\ufeffA short king.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/268671_Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold_8_DPreston_0034.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\ufeffA short king.\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Is this the future of foldable phones? <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the &#8220;Z Fold 8&#8221; name, positioning the phone not as a widescreen oddity, but as the new normal, the default design for foldables going forward. Rumor has it that Apple feels the same way, with a similar squat shape widely predicted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/907856\/iphone-fold-dummy-design-delay-production\">first foldable iPhone<\/a>, expected to launch in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether you want to give the credit to Apple, Samsung, or even Huawei (which got here first with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/914807\/huawei-pura-x-max-launch-price-specs-availability\">Pura X Max<\/a>), I think they might be onto something. After a week, the Z Fold 8 feels comfortable, natural, and <em>normal<\/em>, despite being the short \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/972387\/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-review\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short king. Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the &#8220;Z Fold 8&#8221; name, positioning the phone not as a widescreen oddity, but as the new normal, the default design for foldables going forward. Rumor has it that Apple feels the same &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}