A journalist at the French tech outlet Les Numériques spent a month using the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and reports that he almost never opened it. The publication shared that conclusion in a headline dated September 20, 2026, framing the device around how little its owner relied on the unfolding screen.
The same week, other French outlets covered Samsung's foldable lineup from different angles. BFM described the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra as a device that works as both a tablet and a smartphone, presenting the two formats as a choice buyers no longer have to make. Le Dauphiné Libéré compared the iPhone Duo with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, calling the matchup a duel between passport-style foldables. Lavoixdunord.fr looked at a Galaxy Z Fold 8 bundle with a charger priced at €1,319 on Amazon and asked whether the offer was genuinely good value. Phonandroid, meanwhile, published a Galaxy Z Flip8 review in which its writer swapped an iPhone for the clamshell foldable and questioned whether he wanted to switch back.
Taken together, the coverage suggests French reviewers are testing Samsung's foldables less as novelties and more as everyday phones, weighing how often the flexible display actually gets used against price and format. The Les Numériques piece is notable because its answer, based on one writer's month, was rarely.
What to watch next: whether other reviewers reach the same conclusion about how often the Fold 8's inner screen earns its place, or whether the Ultra's dual-format pitch changes that calculation.