Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Event 2025 LIVE Updates: Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold phones, including the Z Fold 7, the Z Flip 7, and the Z Flip 7 FE, made its debut at the company’s Galaxy Unpacked event in Brooklyn, New York, US on Wednesday, July 9.
The Galaxy Z Fold 7, launching worldwide on July 25, is noticeably thinner and lighter than its predecessor. It comes with Android 16 out of the box and boasts of advanced AI capabilities such as Gemini Live being able to see and respond to what’s on your camera. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 comes with a slightly bigger 6.9-inch 120 AMOLED inner screen than its predecessor, and a much larger 4.1-inch sAMOLED cover screen that offers a refresh rate up to 120Hz.
Alongside the foldables, Samsung also unveiled the Galaxy Watch 8 series comprising three devices – the Galaxy Watch 8, Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and Galaxy Watch 8 Ultra. Both these wearables come with One UI 8 based on WearOS 6 out of the box as well as Gemini AI support. They pack a bunch of new features such as Running Coach and Sleep Coach as well as ability to check Vascular Load, Antioxidant Index and more.
The July edition of Galaxy Unpacked 2025 is over. You can check out our live blog below to recap the highlights from Samsung’s one-hour presentation. You can also check out all of our Samsung Unpacked coverage so far, including our first impressions with the new Galaxy Z Fold 7.
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Galaxy Z Fold7: Benefits worth Rs 12K
- Rs 12K Storage Upgrade (Pre-order 256GB and get 512GB)
- No-Cost EMI up to 24 months
Galaxy Z Flip7: Benefits worth Rs 12K
- Rs 12K Storage Upgrade (Pre-order 256GB and get 512GB)
-No-Cost EMI up to 24 months
Galaxy Z Flip7 FE: Benefits worth Rs 6K
- Rs 6K Storage Upgrade (Pre-order 128GB and get 256GB)
-No-Cost EMI Up to 24 months
Galaxy Z Fold 7: Rs 1,74,999 onwards
Galaxy Z Flip 7: Rs 1,09,999 onwards
Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE: Rs 89,999 onwards
Sleep coaching offers personalised daily tips for restorive rest. With bedtime guidance, you will get reminders for when it is time to wind down. With Samsung Health, you can understand your body with daily check-ins. With its powerful bioactive sensor, the Galaxy Watch 8 offers a continuous approach to tracking your health.
Samsung has moved on from introducing its latest phones to debuting its most advanced Galaxy smartwatches. It comes with an all-new Running Coach that turns your personal metrics into training programmes. You can access over 160 professionally designed sessions. It has a peak brightness of up to 3000 nits.
The dual rear camera system includes a 50MP Wide and a 12MP Ultra-Wide lens, delivering flagship-level clarity in any lighting. 10-bit HDR provides richer color.
With camera sharing on Gemini Live, getting real-time help is as easy as pointing the camera. Whether packing for a trip or choosing an outfit, users can simply show Gemini what they’are looking at. Ask questions like, “Which of these outfits is better for the weather in Seoul?” Gemini will respond.
The main display is a 6.9-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X. The 4.1-inch Super AMOLED FlexWindow is the largest ever on a Galaxy Z Flip. With 2,600 nits of peak brightness and a smooth 120Hz refresh rate on both the main display and the FlexWindow, Galaxy Z Flip7 enables ultra-fluid scrolling, streaming and gaming.
Galaxy Z Fold7 brings the best of the Galaxy’s pro-grade camera experience to a foldable, combining advanced hardware with intelligent processing for consistently stunning results. It features:
- A 200MP wide-angle camera
- A 10MP 100° camera on the main display
One UI 8 brings enhanced privacy to personalized AI experiences with the new Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP ). KEEP creates encrypted, app-specific storage environments within the device’s secure storage area, ensuring each app can access only its own sensitive information and nothing more.
With One UI 8, Samsung is advancing Knox Matrix to deliver more proactive and user-friendly protection across the Galaxy ecosystem. Furthermore, as part of its ongoing commitment to quantum-safe security, Samsung is integrating post-quantum cryptography into Secure Wi-Fi .
Galaxy Z Fold 7 comes with new AI features such as Browsing Assist, Writing Assist, Drawing Assist, Now Brief. All of this is powered by Galaxy AI that understands information to deliver thoughtful context aware support.
Qualcomm has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 is powered globally by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform for Galaxy. Featuring the next-gen custom Qualcomm Oryo CPU and advanced Hexagon NPU, it brings the most powerful Galaxy AI experience ever in a foldable device.
New Samsung devices will come with six months of Google AI Pro - on us, says Rick Osterloh.
You can let Gemini Live see through your camera. Starting with the new Galaxy foldables, you can take actions across all the apps you use on Samsung devices like Samsung Notes, Calendar, etc. Gemini takes action for you right on the smartphone. Everything is coming with the new Galaxy devices right out of the box.
Circle to Search is getting even more powerful with AI Mode. Now, Galaxy users can circle something of interest and get AI-generated responses. You can ask deeper follow-up questions.
"Today, with multimodal AI we are seeing something entirely new. Intelligence that can understand language, audio, and video all at once. It is a shift in how we interact with the technology. Our goal is to integrate AI agents and multimodal capabilities across your Galaxy experience."
"The second shift is personalisation. One UI8 shares information you need at the right moment. Highly personalised AI experiences require information about you. And with the appropriate safety measures, this can be empowering. Our personal data engine learns from your preferences. Samsung will protect your data. It is solutions like this with the benefits of mobile AI and unmatched personalisation."
Galaxy Z Fold 7 comes with the all-new One UI 8 on Android 16. One UI 8 is the Samsung’s latest AI-powered platform on foldables, delivering the latest Android experience straight out of the box.
The Armor FlexHinge is thinner and lighter, thanks to an enhanced water droplet design and newly implemented multi-rail structure that reduces visible creasing and strengthens durability by evenly dispersing stress. The cover display is made with Corning® Gorilla® Glass Ceramic 2, a new glass ceramic that has crystals intricately embedded within its glass matrix. This secures the screen’s durability and crack deflection capabilities and delivers protection in a remarkably thin form factor.
Advanced Armor Aluminum in the frame and hinge housing increases strength and hardness by 10%. The main display is restructured to be thinner and lighter – yet stronger. This was achieved by implementing the Titanium plate layer. Additionally, Ultra-Thin Glass (UTG) was increased to be 50% thicker, making the display tougher.
"Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 represent the pinnacle of our innovation. These foldables are setting a new path, taking phones to another dimension with our most powerful transformative hardware. Our latest camera sees, understands, and responds to you. Now, the Ultra experience is ready to unfold."
"In the mobile AI era, you need something beyond. Your smartphone must be your companion capable of understanding context, supporting you in real time, and adapting to your lifestyle. With high-quality performance and AI to elevate your life. Galaxy Z Fold 7 meets these needs."
"AI has rapidly evolved from text-based prompts to multimodal understanding. We have accelerated adoption of AI for smartphones for all, Galaxy AI has become your very own human-like AI companion. Elevating the way you live every day. Galaxy AI was built with privacy at its core, helping your data stay protected at all times," says Samsung President TM Roh.
Samsung will not be announcing the Galaxy Buds 4 at the July edition of Unpacked 2025, according to Dutch site Galaxy Club (via SamMobile). While the summer is generally when the company also unveils its latest iteration of the Galaxy Buds, it is expected to be introduced sometime in 2026, as per the report.
In just half an hour, Samsung will officially unveil its latest foldables that have been touted to be the thinnest, lightest, and most durable from the brand ever. Exactly how thin will the all-new Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip be? Will there be a third foldable launched today? If so, will it be Samsung's first triple-screen foldable?
ICYMI, Samsung kicked off the year with another Galaxy Unpacked event in January, where it introduced the latest models under its flagship Galaxy S series, including:
-Galaxy S25
-Galaxy S25 Plus
-Galaxy S25 Ultra
It also provided a first look at the all-new ultra-thin and modular smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Edge. The event was held at the SAP centre in San Jose, California, US.
You can check out our reviews of these smartphones here, here, here, and here.
Samsung and Google have together been working on Project Moohan, a mixed reality headset that will be powered by Google's Android XR operating system. It could have various Gemini AI features as well. But both companies have been tight-lipped about its progress so far.
At this year's I/O conference, Google put on a live demo of its Android XR-powered smart glasses. But the real question is, will we get more news about Project Moohan at Galaxy Unpacked July 2025?
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is reportedly going to get a much bigger inner display, which may bump up the screen size to 8.2-inches. And while it may have the same design language as last year, it looks like Samsung might also bringing hardware upgrades in other areas like hinge durability, a much higher resolution main rear camera and a bigger battery to name a few.
The latest flip phone from Samsung will be unveiled in a matter of hours. Last year, the smartphone giant unveiled Galaxy z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6. Both phones featured minimal design upgrade, yet were lighter, and featured an array of AI offerings. Read our review of Galaxy Z Flip 6 here.
Samsung is also likely to continue with its strategy to bring more AI features with Galaxy AI, which the company says goes beyond what devices can do and is about how people interact with them. The company is also expected to launch a new AI-powered interface, supported by breakthrough hardware.
In a press release on July 9, Samsung teased its upcoming foldables - now in their seventh generation - as the thinnest, lightest and most durable of all.
TM Roh, the acting head of the Company's Device eXperience (DX) Division, will take the stage at Brooklyn Convention Centre in New York today to announce the latest foldables.
Samsung also teased camera innovations, indicating that the new foldable devices will feature a more powerful, dynamic and immersive camera system. According to Samsung's recent teasers, the company is likely to bring the Galaxy S25 series' Ultra camera experience to the new Galaxy Z Fold 7. This means that the Galaxy Fold series may get its first flagship camera, removing a big pain point among consumers who wanted to adopt foldables phones but were not impressed with its camera.
The buzz around Samsung's upcoming line-up of smartphones is understandable since it was one of the first companies to launch a foldable phone. However, the competition has intensified since then with several big players including Motorola, Google, and Chinese brands such as Honor, Oppo, and Xiaomi, introducing their own flips and foldables over the past few years.
The big question is: How will Samsung respond? Many shortcomings were found on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 like price, size, battery life and camera quality. Will the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7 address them? This is why the July 9 Galaxy Unpacked event is pivotal for Samsung. All eyes are on whether the Galaxy foldables will match up to other foldables on the market such as the Oppo Find N5, one of the world's slimmest foldable book-style phones.
As for its Galaxy smartwatches, it remains to be seen how Samsung will attempt to push the envelope with AI and health and wellness monitoring.
While Samsung’s smartphone sales continue to see solid growth, the company is facing business uncertainty from various trade policies such as the 25 per cent tariff on non-US-manufactured smartphones proposed by US President Donald Trump. Some of its other key businesses such as chips are also seeing weakness in financial performance. Samsung on Tuesday, July 8, forecast a 39 per cent decline in its second-quarter operating profit due to delays in supplying advanced memory chips to Nvidia, according to a report by Reuters
While Samsung is holding an in-person event in New York, the launch will also be livestreamed on the smartphone maker’s official YouTube Channel. You can tune into the live stream tomorrow (July 9) at 7:30pm IST, which is when the event is expected to kick off. You can also watch it on Samsung's website via its newsroom.
Samsung will be unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Z Flip 7 at today's Unpacked event in New York. Rumours and leaks suggest that Samsung has made substantial changes to the designs of both the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Z Flip 7.
The Z Fold 7 is expected to have a form factor of just 8.9 mm or 4.2 mm when unfolded, which would make it the thinnest foldable ever made by Samsung. It is also expected to have a larger cover display as well as a 200-megapixel camera.
The Z Flip 7, on the other hand, might feature an all-screen cover display. The clamshell-style foldable could also be powered by the Exynos 2500.
All eyes are also on a third new foldable smartphone that might be unveiled today at a more affordable price than the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7.
Galaxy Watch 8 could make a debut today in a 'Classic' style with a rotating bezel.
