After months of hype, Samsung has officially pulled back the curtain on its first ever tri-folding smartphone. The Galaxy Z TriFold transforms from 6.5in phone to 10in tablet, which should make it a multitasking master when it arrives in Korea later this month.
While not the first of its kind (Huawei beat Samsung to the punch with the Mate XT Ultimate Design), Samsung’s debut tri-fold does things a little differently. Instead of incorporating the inner screen into the hinge and exposing it to the elements, here it’s fully covered when in smartphone mode.
Unfurled the Galaxy Z TriFold is just 3.9mm at its thinnest point, a record for a Samsung phone. The three sections are held together with two differently sized titanium hinges, and are set into a frame made of the firm’s Advanced Armor Aluminum alloy. The back uses ceramic-glass fiber-reinforced polymer rather than glass, which helps keep weight in check. It tips the scales at 309g.
Samsung says there’s “minimal gap” when folded; with no official images showing the phone fully in smartphone mode, it’s impossible to say whether it closes completely like the Galaxy Z Fold 7, which has heavily inspired the styling. An IP48 resistance rating won’t worry the current crop of book-style foldables.
Both the inner and outer displays use Samsung’s tried-and-tested AMOLED panels, each with up to 120Hz refresh rates. You get a 2520×1080 resolution up front, and 2160×1584 when unfolded. Officially the inner screen peaks at 1600 nits brightness, while the outer display can boost up to 2600 nits.
Having a 10in tablet that fits in your pocket lets you run three apps side-by-side-by-side in their usual smartphone aspect ratio, and Samsung is promising the full desktop version of DEX for laptop-like working. Naturally the Galaxy Z TriFold will arrive stuffed with Galaxy AI smarts too. It’ll all run on Android 16, with Samsung’s OneUI 8 interface on top.
Samsung hasn’t been particularly ambitious with battery capacity or charging speeds. The Galaxy Z TriFold gets a 5600mAh cell and refuels at a maximum 45W over USB-C. That’s not a huge amount of juice given the substantial screen size when unfolded.
Elsewhere, specs aren’t all that different from the Z Fold 7. Power once again comes from a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset; Samsung is surely waiting for the Galaxy S26 line before it makes the jump to Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. There’ll be versions with 512GB or 1TB of storage, with both getting 16GB of RAM.
The rear camera trio is a beat-for-beat repeat of the Z Fold 7, with a 200MP main snapper, 12MP ultrawide, and 10MP telephoto good for 3x optical zoom. There’s also a pair of 10MP selfie cams – one on the outer display and another on the main screen.
The Galaxy Z TriFold is hitting Korean stores first, on December 12, with prices set to start from 3,594,000 Won – around $2450. China, Taiwan, Singapore, the USA and UAE will all follow in early 2026, where I’d expect it to cost at least $2500. Right now that means the rest of the world is set to miss out, with no official word on a UK or European launch.
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