The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 will be sold on July 25. Outside the box, he will perform Android 16, and this will be the first new phone to do so. Here’s why it matters.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7
The nature of the Android software is that after having published it, each manufacturer of smartphones must optimize it for its equipment. This means that pixel phones, made by Google, are always the first. Others take weeks or more months to make up for it.
This will not be the case with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. Samsung was previously a little slow with its outings. A user interface 7, based on Android 15, has only arrived on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in January of this year, although it has been available for months on Google Pixel, for example. Samsung still deploys an IU 7 to some of its phones, even now. However, the passage to one UI 8, which is based on Android 16, has already started.
The Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 will both have a preinstalled from the User Interface 8, which makes it the first new equipment to launch with Android 16.
The latest Android software will bring new features as well as the latest safety updates and Google bugs, so it’s great to have them on your phone as soon as possible.
But the integration of Vanilla Android with a complete superposition, like the one that Samsung provides, takes time. Thus, the rapid arrival of an IU 8 is also a striking change.
Samsung has also said that there will be several data security and confidentiality improvements in the context of a User Interface 8, with the introduction of the improved encryption (Keep) protection of Knox, which will add additional security.
Samsung takes this fast version seriously: it also happens to the latest Samsung Galaxy watches, which will also boast a version of a UI 8 of the box. Samsung says it is the very first smartwatch to offer a functionality called Ask Google Gemini, which allows you to speak to the watch and interact with Gemini in a natural and conversational way.
