Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 UK release date, price and our hands-on review

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is available to pre-order right now, having been released this afternoon (Wednesday 9th July) at 3pm.

General availability will begin from Friday 25th July.

With the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 price starting from £1,799 we did expect its successor to have a slightly higher price-tag, however, the brand-new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 smartphone will also start from £1,799 for 12GB RAM + 256GB, £1,899 for 12GB RAM + 512GB, and £2,149 for 16GB RAM + 1TB.

Samsung’s new offering boasts its signature foldable design.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 comes in at 8.9mm closed and 4.2mm open, making it 26% thinner than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6.

For the first time, the new foldable smartphone will have Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 (a strengthened material designed for enhanced drop performance on rough surfaces) and Advanced Armour Aluminium (a resistant alternative to steel), as well as the Corning Gorilla Glass Victus2 that we know and love. This materials ensure that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is durable and resistant against life’s mishaps, such as dropping your new phone down the stairs in John Lewis…

When you open the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, you’ll find a brilliant eight-inch AMOLED display.

The new smartphone comes in Blue Shadow, Silver Shadow and Jetblack colourways, with Mint exclusively available at the Samsung website.

As we mentioned earlier, the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has the ‘Ultra experience’, but what does this mean?

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 boasts the AI features we know and love on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra smartphone, such as the noise reduction in video feature, Gemini Live, and Circle to Search. There are also plenty of AI functionalities for the camera, too, such as Photo Assist, which offers side by side editing, and Enhanced Generative AI, where AI suggests how to edit your photos.

The new Samsung smartphone runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, which offers an improvement in Ray Tracing for all of you gamers.

As for the camera, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 will have a 200MP ultra camera, a 12MP ultra wide camera and 10MP telephoto camera.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is available to pre-order right now at the official Samsung store, having been released at 3pm this afternoon (Wednesday 9th July).

Here’s the full list of retailers and mobile networks which are stocking the brand-new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7:

As we mentioned earlier, we were lucky enough to get hands-on time with the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 two days before the Galaxy Unpacked event, and here are our thoughts.

The first thing that struck us is just how thin and lightweight the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is; the foldable smartphone’s dimensions come in at 8.9mm closed and 4.2mm open, making it 26% thinner than its predecessor.

We’re also continually impressed with the generative AI features that Samsung implements, such as Circle to Search, which does exactly what its says on the tin: users can Google search by circling, highlighting, or tapping on anything displayed on screen, Enhanced Generative AI on photographs, where Samsung suggests how you should edit your photos (such as removing photobombers), and Gemini Live, which allows users to have a real-time, conversational interaction with Samsung’s Gemini AI assistant.