Samsung Launching Galaxy ‘TriFold’ Next Week–in Korea

By Dean Blake - News

Published: 3 Dec 2025

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Samsung has finally shown off its long-rumoured three-screen folding phone, the Galaxy Z TriFold. When unfolded, the TriFold will feature a 10” display corner-to-corner (just shy of an iPad Air’s 11” screen), but will fold up into something that can easily fit in your pocket, collapsing back into a 6.5” form factor.

The Korean tech giant spilled the beans on pretty much everything you’d want to know about the product, which is launching in Korea on 12 December, including the countries and territories the TriFold would be available (Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, UAE, and US), but stopped short of announcing any international prices. Which is a fair call, considering the likelihood of the Korean ₩3.6 million price likely eclipsing US$3,000 when you account for tariffs and extra costs.

Also, you’ll note that as of its announcement, the TriFold isn’t coming to Australia. With all that out of the way, here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold.

Tech Specs

What is it?

The Galaxy Z TriFold is Samsung’s latest bet on the foldable market, following on from 2025’s Galaxy Z Fold 7: which is actually still the most compelling folding phone on the market, in our view. It’ll run Android 16 with Samsung’s One UI 8 overlay, and offer support for the brand’s Galaxy AI and DeX capabilities.

Here, though, Samsung is pushing things up a notch by adding an additional hinge and screen to the device—bringing the total internal screen size to 10”.

Effectively, this allows the TriFold to unfold to even greater sizes than previous attempts, and mirrors what Huawei has done with the Mate XT: that is, try to lead a nascent market into a new product category. Just what that extra screen real-estate can provide to the average punter is anyone’s guess, but it’s pretty well known that, generally, people are opting for more expensive flagship phones year-over-year.

While there may be some concerns around the device’s durability, Samsung said it has delivered its most “advanced hinges yet” in the TriFold, using two hinges of differing sizes with a dual-rail structure to improve stability. This approach also allows the phone to be slimmer, the brand said, with the thinnest point being 3.9mm.

Each of the three segments will be slightly different thicknesses, though, with the other two measuring in at 4mm and 4.2mm respectively, likely to account for battery sizes as well as internals and cameras.

The folding screen has also been re-engineered, Samsung said, with a reinforced overcoat added atop a shock-absorbing display layer to deliver better resistance. One of the major issues of folding phones is how ‘soft’ the inner displays have had to be in order to fold without breaking: that has the unfortunately side effect of making them very easy to damage and mark, so any added durability will be a positive.

Plus, all the screens on the device feature an adaptive refresh rate that can hit up to 120Hz, which will keep everything looking silky smooth, along with relatively high resolutions. I can imagine a 10” display being a pretty good place to watch movies or binge YouTube, though neither of those mediums tend to offer much for any display above 60Hz.

Depending on the Snapdragon 8 Elite powering the TriFold you’ll get some decent performance out of gaming on the device, though until we know a bit more about how it’ll handle thermal load I wouldn’t try anything too taxing on something this slim and expensive.

The included S-Pen compatibility could make it a pretty decent note-taking device, and could work as a drawing tablet in a pinch. However, Samsung is careful to note that using certain S Pens may mark the screens of their foldables, and to make sure you’re using the S Pen Fold to avoid damaging the internal screens.

I mentioned above that people are, on average, opting for more expensive phones, but it’s worth noting that they’re not really opting for foldables. The foldable market still only makes up about 2 per cent of the overall smartphone market, though that’s expected to grow as the use cases become more… well.. useful, and the costs come down.

When Can I Buy One?

If you’re in Korea, the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold will launch on 12 December for ₩3.6 million. If you’re in China, Taiwan, Singapore, the UAE, or the US, you’re probably looking at a release date early in 2026, though we have no idea how much it’ll cost.

If you’re anywhere else, you’re probably out of luck.