Samsung’s upcoming wide-body foldable now has a complete spec sheet. Trusted Samsung leaker Ahmed Qwaider published the full specifications for the Samsung Galaxy New Fold on X today, the first time cameras, battery capacity, weight, and storage options have all appeared in a single source.
The phone launches at Unpacked on July 22 in London, three weeks from now. The camera configuration in the spec sheet in particular tells you exactly what Samsung is prioritising with this device and what it is not.
TL;DR: Ahmed Qwaider’s leak confirms the Galaxy New Fold ships with a dual-camera system (50MP wide and 50MP ultrawide, no telephoto), a 4,800mAh battery with 45W wired charging, a 201g body, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Unpacked is July 22 in London, with global sales starting around August 5. This phone is a separate product from the Z Fold 8 Ultra, built around the wider 4:3 display rather than the camera system.
What Ahmed Qwaider’s Samsung Galaxy New Fold leak reveals
The spec sheet that surfaced today is the most complete look yet at a device Samsung has not officially named. Retail packaging photographed by leaker MohammedKhatri on X shows “Galaxy New Fold” printed on Kindsuit case boxes, not “Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide.” If that name holds at Unpacked, Samsung is not iterating on the Z Fold line. It is introducing a separate product family.
Here is the full breakdown from Ahmed Qwaider’s leak:
| Spec | Galaxy New Fold |
|---|---|
| Main display | 7.6-inch QHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X, 4:3 ratio, 120Hz |
| Cover display | 5.5-inch QHD+, 16:10 ratio |
| Processor | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (3nm) |
| RAM | 12GB |
| Storage | 256GB, 512GB, 1TB |
| Battery | 4,800mAh, 45W wired, Fast Wireless Charging 2.0 |
| Main camera | 50MP Wide, F1.8 |
| Ultrawide camera | 50MP Ultra Wide, F1.9 |
| Cover camera | 10MP, F2.2 |
| Inner camera | 10MP, F2.2 |
| Folded dimensions | 123.9 x 81.9 x 9.7mm |
| Weight | 201 grams |
The 201-gram weight is the number most worth pausing on. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 weighed 236 grams. A book-style foldable with a wider main display coming in 35 grams lighter than its predecessor means Samsung made specific structural decisions to keep this form factor manageable.
The battery is 4,800mAh, which is close to the 5,000mAh cell rumored for the Z Fold 8 Ultra. Getting a lighter phone with nearly the same battery at the same 45W charging speed is not a compromise that jumps out on a spec sheet, but it is a meaningful engineering win for anyone who carries a foldable all day.
The 1TB storage tier also signals where this phone is priced. Mid-range pivots do not ship with 1TB options. The Galaxy New Fold is a flagship device being positioned at a different angle than the Ultra, not a cheaper entry point.
No telephoto: what the camera choice actually costs you
The Galaxy New Fold has two rear cameras: a 50MP wide at F1.8 and a 50MP ultrawide at F1.9. There is no telephoto.
Every Galaxy Z Fold since the Z Fold 4 has shipped with a three-camera system that included a dedicated telephoto lens. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide drops that lens entirely to accommodate the wider 4:3 chassis. For a device built around a wider productivity display, that trade-off makes more internal sense than it might at first. Most people buying a foldable because of its tablet-like main screen are managing documents, running two apps side by side, or watching video. Zoom range is rarely the feature driving that purchase.
That said, telephoto absence is a real gap the moment you step into a situation where you want optical reach. Zooming into a stage, framing a subject across a room, capturing a sign from a distance without heavy cropping: all of that gets harder without a dedicated zoom lens. Samsung’s One UI 9 software layer will apply AI processing to digital zoom, but digital zoom and optical zoom are still meaningfully different in practice.
What softens the blow is that both lenses are genuinely strong. A 50MP ultrawide at F1.9 outperforms the ultrawide sensors on most Android phones shipping this year. The main camera at 50MP F1.8 will produce competitive shots in daylight and low light. The phone is not built to replace your camera. It is built to be a very capable wide screen with a camera attached, and the spec sheet confirms that priority clearly.
What the name tells you about where Samsung is going with this
Shipping this phone as “Galaxy New Fold” rather than any Z Fold variant has a logic to it. The Z designation carries specific expectations: three cameras, Ultra-tier display brightness, a premium camera system. The New Fold breaks two of those expectations by design. A separate name prevents those expectations from landing on a device that was never built to meet them, and it lets Samsung sell this and the Z Fold 8 Ultra in the same lineup without the cheaper one dragging the other’s perception.
Display leaker IceUniverse, posting on Weibo, separately noted that the Z Fold 8 Ultra main panel will reach 3,600 nits of peak brightness, a significant step up from the Z Fold 7’s 2,600-nit ceiling. No equivalent brightness figure has surfaced for the New Fold, which suggests the two phones are using different panel grades and not just different chassis shapes. Samsung is not splitting one device into two form factors. These are genuinely separate products.
FCC and NBTC Thailand certifications have cleared for the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, and Z Fold 8 Ultra, confirming the launch names ahead of the event. A listing on PriceBee points to a global sale date around August 5, which would put preorders opening shortly after July 22. By the time Unpacked ends, the remaining unknowns are price and color. Everything in Ahmed Qwaider’s spec sheet is specific enough that it should hold up.
