Samsung’s Z TriFold is official and it looks like a tablet with a phone attached
TL;DR
Samsung officially announces the Z TriFold, a dual-hinge foldable with a 10-inch inner screen, launching in Korea on December 12th and in the US in early 2026. It features a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 16GB RAM, 5,600mAh battery, and three rear cameras, but lacks S Pen support and pricing details.
Samsung is officially announcing the Z TriFold, its much-anticipated foldable with not one, but two hinges. It’ll launch first in South Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned for the first quarter of 2026. There’s no US price just yet, but it’ll cost KRW 3,590,400 (about $2,500) for 512GB of storage when it launches back home, so you should probably start saving your pennies nickels for this one.
The TriFold’s inner screen measures 10 inches on the diagonal, with a 2160 x 1584 resolution and a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate that goes all the way down to 1Hz. That’s a lot of screen. You can run three apps vertically side by side on it, and even use Samsung’s DeX desktop environment in a standalone mode without a separate display. On paper, the TriFold’s outer screen looks a lot like the one on the Z Fold 7. It’s a 6.5-inch 1080p display with a 21:9 aspect ratio.
Each of the TriFold’s three panels has a slightly different thickness. The center panel is the thickest at 4.2mm, and it houses a USB-C port on the bottom edge. The thinnest panel measures just 3.9mm thick, including a physical SIM tray, and the other panel is 4.0mm thick. Those two sides fold inward over the center panel, unlike Huawei’s Mate XT, which folds in a Z shape and uses part of the inner screen when folded. Samsung says that the main display “undergoes a 200,000-cycle multi-folding test, equivalent to folding the device approximately 100 times a day for five years.”
The TriFold measures 12.9mm thick when it’s folded — 4.7mm thicker than a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s also thicker than a Z Fold 7, which is 8.9mm when you fold it, but it’s not far off the previous Z Fold 6 which is 12.1mm folded.
Although it folds differently, the Z TriFold is pretty close in size and weight to Huawei’s Mate XT and most recent XTs. The Z TriFold is just a little thicker when folded — 12.9mm versus 12.8mm — and weighs 309 grams compared to the 298g XT.
The back panel is a “ceramic-glass fiber-reinforced polymer” designed to resist cracking. The device’s hinges are two different sizes, both with a dual-rail design protected by a titanium housing. Like Samsung’s other foldables, the TriFold is rated IP48 — fully water resistant, but not dust-tight.
With all that going on inside the TriFold, Samsung has still managed to squeeze in three rear cameras: a 200-megapixel f/1.7 wide angle; a 12-megapixel ultrawide; and a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto. Both the cover screen and inner screen include a 10-megapixel selfie camera as well. Each of the phone’s panels houses a battery as well, adding up to a 5,600mAh capacity. The whole thing is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, like the S25 series, and includes 16GB of RAM.
One thing I’m not seeing on the TriFold’s spec sheet? S Pen compatibility. Samsung spokesperson Elise Sembach confirmed to The Verge over email that the TriFold lacks support for the company’s Bluetooth stylus. The Z Fold used to include stylus support, but that ended with the most recent Z Fold 7. In the meantime, Samsung isn’t sharing how much the TriFold will cost in the US.
Update, December 2nd: Added price in South Korea, engineering video, and folding test claim.