Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8 Gets the Cover Screen Right — for a Price

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8, announced Wednesday during the company’s Unpacked event, launches with the price hike we expected, along with a few welcome tweaks to its design and software that could make the phone easier to use.

I got to demo the $1,200 Z Flip 8, and even though that’s a $100 spike from the starting price of last year’s Z Flip 7 for the same 256GB of storage, the phone is noticeably lighter and thinner than prior iterations. Samsung says that at launch, the 180-gram Flip 8 will be the lightest flip-style foldable phone on the market. When unfolded, the phone is 6.1mm thick, which is noticeably thinner than the Z Flip 7 (6.8mm) and Motorola Razr Ultra (7.2mm).

But I was more impressed by a number of software tweaks coming to the Z Flip 8 that make it easier to use while closed. For starters,...

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