A hands-on video claiming to show the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra’s crease-free display went viral this week — and within a day, a rival leaker called it fake. Three days before Samsung’s July 22 Unpacked event, the phone’s biggest rumored upgrade is already tangled in a leak war.
The video came from a Weibo account called Momentary Digital on July 13, showing a foldable phone opening, closing, and playing video with the crease barely visible except at extreme angles under harsh light. Outlets including Android Authority and GSMArena picked it up as evidence that Samsung had finally solved the crease problem that’s dogged every Galaxy Fold since the original.
The rebuttal came fast
Ice Universe, a leaker with a comparable track record to Momentary Digital, disputed the video within a day. According to Ice Universe, the device in the footage isn’t a Z Fold 8 Ultra at all — it’s a blue Galaxy Z Fold 7, identifiable by a missing anti-reflective coating and a punch-hole camera that’s the wrong size for the upcoming model. Some outlets, including Android Authority, have since updated their coverage to include the dispute; others ran with the original “creaseless” framing.
Ice Universe didn’t leave it there. In a separate claim reported by SamMobile, the leaker said the real Z Fold 8 series will have crease visibility that “matches” the Oppo Find N6 — currently regarded as one of the least visible creases on any foldable on the market. That’s a meaningfully softer claim than “creaseless”: best-in-class, not eliminated. No supply-chain report at Reuters or Bloomberg’s level of sourcing has independently confirmed a zero-crease panel from Samsung Display.
What’s actually solid: the hinge, not the video
Separate from the disputed footage, Samsung’s hinge engineering has a well-documented, uncontested trajectory. The Z Fold 6’s hinge was rated for 200,000 folds — roughly five years of average use. The Z Fold 7 introduced the Armor FlexHinge, a multi-rail structure paired with a titanium frame, and doubled that rating to 500,000 folds, or about a decade. The Z Fold 8 Ultra is rumored to use a new “Flex Titanium” hinge — a titanium alloy film paired with a titanium plate — aimed at pushing crease visibility and durability further still, though that spec remains unconfirmed pending Unpacked.
It’s worth noting the pattern here, because this isn’t the first time a Fold crease claim has come and mostly evaporated. Samsung has now shipped seven generations of the Z Fold line, and roughly every one of them has arrived with some version of “the crease is basically gone this time” — from Fold 3’s ceramic-coated hinge cover through Fold 6’s redesigned bracket. Reviewers have found real, measurable improvement each generation, but none has delivered the “you literally can’t see it” result the marketing language implies. That track record is exactly why a single disputed Weibo video isn’t enough to declare the problem solved this time either.
The price is the less disputed story
While the crease claim is up for debate, pricing leaks are more consistent across outlets. Citing industry sources, Korea’s SE Daily reports the Z Fold 8 will start at $1,899 for 256GB, with the Z Fold 8 Ultra starting around $2,099 and reaching roughly $2,899 for the 1TB configuration — about $100 more than the Z Fold 7’s $1,999.99 launch price, and Samsung’s first foldable to land near or above the $2,000 mark. European pricing has leaked at €2,199, €2,399, and €2,799 for the same three tiers. Samsung is reportedly still finalizing its final pricing strategy, so these numbers could shift before Tuesday.
What’s next
Samsung has made no official display claims as of this writing. Unpacked lands July 22 in London, where the company is expected to confirm final specs, pricing, and — if the rumors hold — whatever crease improvement actually made it into the Z Fold 8 Ultra. Given how quickly this week’s leak got picked apart, it’s worth treating anything short of Samsung’s own stage demo as provisional.
For the fuller picture of what else is landing at the same event, our full Unpacked preview covers all three foldables Samsung is expected to announce. And if you’re weighing this against what else is shipping this summer, competing flagship and foldable launches are worth checking before you commit to a $2,000+ phone based on a disputed leak video.
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