Samsung will formally launch the Galaxy Z TriFold on December 12 in South Korea. This handset, with two hinges, is deliberate to launch within the first quarter of 2026 within the U.S. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t get your hopes up if you happen to reside in Canada. Canadians didn’t formally get the primary Galaxy Fold, and we sadly received’t get our fingers on the Galaxy XR for now both.
Nonetheless, if it does come out in Canada, it’ll be expensive — the gadget prices KRW ₩3,590,400 (about C$3,418) for the 512GB of storage in Korea.
This phablet sports activities a 10-inch interior display screen with a 2160 x 1584-pixel decision and a 120Hz refresh charge that drops to 1Hz. The TriFold allows you to use three apps vertically facet by facet and even use Samsung’s DeX mode. The outer display screen sports activities a 6.5-inch 1080p show with a 21:9 facet ratio. The panels all have totally different thicknesses, with the thickest being 4.2mm. The thinnest panel is 3.9mm thick, and the opposite panel is 4.0mm thick.
Samsung’s two outer panels fold inward over the middle panel, with the again of the center panel that includes that 6.5-inch display screen. That is fairly totally different from Huawei’s Z-shaped foldable. When the handset is in telephone mode, it’s about 12.9mm thick, which is sort of thick for any smartphone. Surprisingly, the TriFold is barely 0.8mm thicker than the Z Fold 6 that got here out in 2024; nevertheless, greater than 3mm thicker than 2025’s Z Fold 7.
Samsung says the handset undergoes a 200,000-cycle multi-folding check, roughly the identical as folding 100 instances a day for 5 years.
The again panel reportedly sports activities “ceramic-glass fibre-reinforced polymer,” which is meant to withstand cracking. The handset is IP48 water-resistant, however isn’t utterly dustproof, which is form of just like the Z Fold 7. The gadget reportedly encompasses a 200-megapixel main shooter with an f/1.7 aperture, a 12-megapixel ultrawide and a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto digicam. The telephone’s cowl display screen and interior display screen sport 10-megapixel sensors. In whole, the gadget has 5,600mAh capability, however there are three batteries making up this capability. It additionally has the Snapdragon 8 Elite noticed within the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and S25 sequence and contains 16GB of RAM.
It’ll be bizarre when this gadget launches within the U.S. with final yr’s Snapdragon processor, when the S26 sequence will doubtless characteristic Qualcomm’s newer and higher Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
The Verge was in a position to affirm that the TriFold isn’t appropriate with the S Pen, just like the Z Fold 7. We’ve reached out to Samsung concerning Canadian availability.
Supply: The Verge, Samsung Newsroom South Korea
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