New Delhi, July 22 -- The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra arrived at Galaxy Unpacked in London on Wednesday priced at $2,099, and within an hour of its unveiling the most consistent observation from critics who handled the device was that the $1,899 Galaxy Z Fold8 sitting next to it felt like the more interesting product. Samsung launched three foldables at once, and the one reviewers kept reaching for was not the flagship.

3 aspect ratio at 7.6 inches, a format reviewers said felt more natural for side-by-side multitasking and horizontal video.

Both phones run Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy and are the first Samsung foldables to use silicon-carbon battery chemistry. The shift matters because silicon-carbon cells store more...