The wider Galaxy Z Fold 8 is Samsung’s first new foldable form factor in years and, at first glance, it seems like it’d solve a huge problem from past models, the lack of useful space for video. But, sadly, there’s technically no real improvement here.
The shape of every Galaxy Z Fold to date has been useful for reading, web browsing, and multitasking, but it really fell apart when it came to video. Because of the aspect ratio, you never really gained anything from the added size of the display. In fact, the Galaxy Z Fold 7’s usable space for video is about the same as the Galaxy S26 Ultra.
Unfortunately, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 doesn’t really fix this.
I was really excited by the possibilty of this but, as it turns out, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 has almost exactly the same amount of usable screen space for video as the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra (and Fold 7).
As always, this does vary based on what you’re watching. Movie trailers like those for Spider-Man or Avengers will take up less space as they’re in a 21:9 aspect ratio, but even YouTube videos on our own channel just can’t use up the full canvas the Fold 8 offers. The 4:3 screen just ends up being the same size as what you get on the last form factor, with the notable downside that captions have less room to breathe under the video, assuming you have those enabled.
