Samsung Goes Big – Literally – With Its New TriFold Phone

Following months of rumors, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Z TriFold. The institution says it's releasing the telephone successful the archetypal 4th of 2026, but it's seemingly not yet acceptable to accidental however overmuch this telephone volition cost. Based connected the astir $4,000 terms of the Huawei Mate XT tri-fold, I'd conjecture not cheap.

Rumors person enactment the Z TriFold's terms astir the $3,000 terms point, which could beryllium tenable to expect based connected its specs. The telephone is bladed erstwhile it's unfolded – 3.9mm astatine its thinnest point, Samsung says – which is awesome but conscionable a spot thicker than the 3.6mm heavy Mate XT. All folded up, the telephone is 12.9mm thick, which is lone 0.1mm thicker than Huawei's phone. The Z TriFold's 10-inch display, erstwhile unfolded, volition beryllium a spot smaller than the Mate XT's 10.2 inch interior screen. The show besides has a little solution and pixel density – 2160 x 1584 and 269ppi versus the Mate XT's 2232 x 3184 and 382ppi. All of this folds up to beryllium 12.9mm thick, which is lone .1mm thicker than the Mate XT.

The TriFold has a 6.5-inch OLED screen show with a 2520 x 1080 solution and 442ppi, susceptible of up to 2600 nits highest brightness. Like the interior display, it's susceptible of 1 – 120Hz refresh rate. The telephone features 5 cameras – a 10MP selfie camera connected the screen show and 1 connected the inside, a 12MP Ultra-Wide camera with a 120-degree tract of view, a 200MP wide-angle camera with 2x optical zoom, and a 10MP telephoto with optical representation stabilization and 3x optical zoom, arsenic good arsenic 30x integer zoom.

Inside, the telephone sounds a batch similar the Galaxy Z Fold 7, which we gave an 8/10 and called the champion folding telephone yet – and truthful 1 of the champion smartphones wide – successful our review. Like that phone, it's packing a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and 16GB of RAM. Samsung is offering it successful 512GB and 1TB retention tiers. It's got a three-cell, 5,600mAh artillery divided up amongst each of its sections, and supports 45W wired accelerated charging and 15W wireless accelerated charging – so, Qi2, not Qi2.2. And large quality for eSIM haters: it inactive supports dual carnal SIM cards.

Of course, the large question astir this phone, too cost, is durability. Rather than the Mate XT's Z-fold – which, travel connected guys, it's successful the name! – this telephone folds inward to support the interior display. The telephone besides lone manages an IP48 particulate and h2o absorption rating, similar the Z Fold 7; I conjecture Samsung inactive hasn't cracked the codification to the IP68 standing that Google gave its Pixel 10 Pro Fold. Needless to say, much than immoderate different foldable, this is not a telephone you privation to permission successful the unsupervised, candy-caked hands of a child.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.