Samsung’s Z Trifold Is Official And It Looks Like A Tablet With A Phone Attached

I benignant of wish they’d called it nan Z Fold Fold.

Samsung is officially announcing nan Z TriFold, its much-anticipated foldable pinch not one, but two hinges. It’ll motorboat first successful South Korea connected December 12th, pinch a US motorboat planned for nan first 4th of 2026. There’s nary US value conscionable yet, but it’ll costs KRW 3,590,400 (about $2,500) for 512GB of retention erstwhile it launches backmost home, truthful you should astir apt commencement redeeming your pennies nickels for this one.

The TriFold’s soul surface measures 10 inches connected nan diagonal, pinch a 2160 x 1584 solution and a 120Hz adaptive refresh complaint that goes each nan measurement down to 1Hz. That’s a batch of screen. You tin tally 3 apps vertically broadside by broadside connected it, and moreover usage Samsung’s DeX desktop situation successful a standalone mode without a abstracted display. On paper, nan TriFold’s outer surface looks a batch for illustration nan 1 connected nan Z Fold 7. It’s a 6.5-inch 1080p show pinch a 21:9 facet ratio.

Each of nan TriFold’s 3 panels has a somewhat different thickness. The halfway sheet is nan thickest astatine 4.2mm, and it houses a USB-C larboard connected nan bottommost edge. The thinnest sheet measures conscionable 3.9mm thick, including a beingness SIM tray, and nan different sheet is 4.0mm thick. Those 2 sides fold inward complete nan halfway panel, dissimilar Huawei’s Mate XT, which folds successful a Z style and uses portion of nan soul surface erstwhile folded. Samsung says that nan main show “undergoes a 200,000-cycle multi-folding test, balanced to folding nan instrumentality astir 100 times a time for 5 years.”

The TriFold measures 12.9mm heavy erstwhile it’s folded — 4.7mm thicker than a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s besides thicker than a Z Fold 7, which is 8.9mm erstwhile you fold it, but it’s not acold disconnected nan erstwhile Z Fold 6 which is 12.1mm folded.

Although it folds differently, nan Z TriFold is beautiful adjacent successful size and weight to Huawei’s Mate XT and most caller XTs. The Z TriFold is conscionable a small thicker erstwhile folded — 12.9mm versus 12.8mm — and weighs 309 grams compared to nan 298g XT.

The backmost sheet is simply a “ceramic-glass fiber-reinforced polymer” designed to defy cracking. The device’s hinges are 2 different sizes, some pinch a dual-rail creation protected by a titanium housing. Like Samsung’s different foldables, nan TriFold is rated IP48 — afloat h2o resistant, but not dust-tight.

With each that going connected wrong nan TriFold, Samsung has still managed to compression successful 3 rear cameras: a 200-megapixel f/1.7 wide angle; a 12-megapixel ultrawide; and a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto. Both nan screen surface and soul surface see a 10-megapixel selfie camera arsenic well. Each of nan phone’s panels houses a artillery arsenic well, adding up to a 5,600mAh capacity. The full point is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, for illustration nan S25 series, and includes 16GB of RAM.

One point I’m not seeing connected nan TriFold’s spec sheet? S Pen compatibility. Samsung spokesperson Elise Sembach confirmed to The Verge over email that nan TriFold lacks support for nan company’s Bluetooth stylus. The Z Fold utilized to see stylus support, but that ended pinch nan astir caller Z Fold 7. In nan meantime, Samsung isn’t sharing really overmuch nan TriFold will costs successful nan US.

Update, December 2nd: Added value successful South Korea, engineering video, and folding trial claim.