Why Samsung’s Fold8 won by breaking the foldable formula
- Source
- The Korea Herald - Business
- Source link
- https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10842999
- Published
- 2026-08-17 11:03:08
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-17 06:05:45
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- South Korea
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
“I thought it would feel awkward because it looked so short and wide in photos,” said Kwon Ji-hyun, a 35-year-old woman who had bought every Galaxy Z Flip before switching last week to Samsung’s new, wider Fold8. “Just a few days later, I felt the opposite. My husband’s larger, more traditional Fold8 Ultra started to seem like the unusual one.” Kwon is exactly the kind of buyer Samsung’s book-style Fold rarely won over before. She was far from alone. Female Fold buyers in their teens through 30s
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