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Samsung to Discontinue Galaxy Z TriFold After Just Three Months

Samsung is set to discontinue the Galaxy Z TriFold globally after just three months on sale (via Bloomberg).

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The company will start by ceasing sales of the device in Korea, where it has been on sale since December. Samsung plans to discontinue the device in the United States once it clears its inventory.

Samsung's website already lists the TriFold as "sold out," but customers are still able to buy the device at Samsung stores. It launched in the United States in January and costs $2,899.

The Galaxy Z TriFold is Samsung's first smartphone that has a larger total display area thanks to folding twice, featuring a 10-inch display when opened and a 6.5-inch cover screen when closed, with "minimized creasing." A third of the display is just 3.9mm thick when the smartphone is unfolded.

It contains a 5,600 mAh three-cell battery system with one battery behind each display panel, making it the largest battery that Samsung has used in a smartphone to date. There are three cameras on the rear of the device, including a 200-megapixel wide angle camera, a 12-megapixel ultra wide camera, and a 10-megapixel telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom. There is a 10-megapixel selfie camera on the cover screen and another on the main screen.

Samsung touted unique capabilities for the Galaxy Z TriFold, such as using three different portrait-sized apps side-by-side, watching full-screen content, vertical tablet-style reading, two differently sized hinges that work together with a dual-rail structure, and an alarm that alerts the user if it's folded incorrectly.

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Top Rated Comments

15 weeks ago
One fold for each month.
Score: 72 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ProMotionPotato Avatar
15 weeks ago
The Tri Fold didn’t fail because it wasn’t impressive. It failed because it solved a problem nobody has, while introducing a bunch of new ones like price, durability, and usability. A second fold sounds like progress, but in practice it just multiplies trade offs.
Score: 42 Votes (Like | Disagree)
15 weeks ago
I mean $2900 for a phone? A phone?
Score: 29 Votes (Like | Disagree)
15 weeks ago
Account vacated.
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
15 weeks ago
Samsung is probably annoyed Apple hasn't innovated in so long that they can't copy anything anymore, and they're running out of ideas lol.
Score: 20 Votes (Like | Disagree)
zombierunner Avatar
15 weeks ago
Main Reasons:

* Super high production costs, basically zero profit: The TriFold uses expensive custom parts like a huge OLED screen, fancy hinges, and extra memory. With rising prices for chips and parts (plus shortages), Samsung is selling it at a loss or close to it. Making more would just lose even more money.
* Never meant to be a big seller: Samsung only made tiny batches (around 3,000–6,000 at first in Korea). It was sold only on their website in a few countries and always sold out fast. It was basically a tech demo to show off future foldables and create hype, not to make serious cash.
* Too many reliability headaches: The complicated design with extra hinges and a bigger folding screen makes it more likely to break. Early users already reported some screen issues, so mass production would be risky and even more expensive.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)