Samsung’s best pre-order perk won’t be available for the Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8 | Infinium-tech

The best thing about pre-ordering a new Samsung smartphone for the past few years has been that you can get a ‘free’ storage upgrade. Pay for one storage tier, get a higher tier at no additional cost.

However, a new report out of Korea today claims that Samsung will not be offering this benefit for the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8, which it will unveil on July 22.

Instead, the company will only cover 50% of the price difference between the 256GB option and the 512GB model. So basically, when you pre-order you will have to pay half the difference to get the higher storage tier.

This is obviously a less attractive deal than before, but the reason for Samsung’s decision is – you guessed it – the memory price crisis. The company is offsetting some of the higher memory costs by offering freebies at reduced prices.

Samsung’s mobile division is estimated to have reached an operating loss of KRW 1.5 trillion ($1 billion) in the second quarter of this year. This will be the first time in the history of the mobile unit that it has recorded a quarterly loss. And that’s unfortunately due to the rising prices of memory.

A Samsung official has said that the company cannot confirm changes in pre-order benefits at this time, so take all these things with a grain of salt. That said, it wouldn’t be surprising if this came to light.

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