Thirty supervised minutes with Samsung's middle child at Old Billingsgate — a passport-shaped foldable that borrows the Ultra's brains, sidesteps the Ultra's tax, and walks away with the show. India price placeholder inside; embargo lifts 22 July.Old Billingsgate did its Bond-villain routine handsomely for Samsung's six-device launch — vaulted gloom, spot-lit plinths, prototypes gleaming like props from Q Branch on an open evening — and the crowd behaved exactly as crowds do. Everyone stampeded the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra table, the way an audience ignores the rhythm guitarist while the frontman poses. One table to the side, under a quieter spotlight of its own, sat the standard Galaxy Z Fold 8, collecting the polite traffic a support act gets while the headliner tunes up. I gave it thirty supervised minutes, then went back for more — the reviewer's equivalent of demanding the setlist. The spotlight had the story wrong: the middle child is my favourite foldable of the three Samsung shipped tonight, and the one most people should buy.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.