Samsung has been selling foldable phones for years, but they all fold in half. Recently, the company released the Galaxy Z TriFold, which has two hinges that allow it to expand from something approaching phone-sized to a 10-inch tablet. It’s a neat engineering demo, and that’s how it’s going to stay—Samsung has confirmed it’s ending sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold just three months after it launched.
According to Bloomberg, Samsung will begin winding down sales of the massive foldable in its home market of South Korea, where the TriFold debuted in December 2025. The device will disappear from other markets like the US as inventory is sold. Samsung released the Galaxy Z TriFold for the US in January, making its run even shorter stateside.
Samsung didn’t offer a rationale for this decision, but poor sales probably isn’t it. While the phone retailed for a whopping $2,899, Samsung was selling every unit it could produce. The company’s website actually teased restocks until recently, and desperate buyers were paying above MSRP on the second-hand market.
Blame for the discontinuation may rest with the rapidly increasing cost of components. Both storage and memory are getting much more expensive, and the Galaxy Z Trifold has a generous allotment of both: 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage in the base model. Samsung probably wasn’t making much money on the TriFold even with the sky-high price, and raising it even more would have been a bad look.
As components become more expensive, cutting the TriFold is probably an easy decision. This was clearly a prestige device—an impressive feat of engineering that was never going to be manufactured in large volumes. There just aren’t that many people willing to pay almost three grand for a folding phone, even if it morphs into a tablet. So perhaps it’s best to save all that RAM for the newly released Galaxy S26 Ultra, which is reportedly selling briskly despite its $1,300 price tag.
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