Here's when Samsung is launching its tri-fold smartphone

21 January 2025
The company will unleash four different foldables this year.

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  • Anonymous
  • GA9
  • 44 minutes ago

👍👍

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    • nice
    • tVt
    • 1 hour ago

    better than iPhone Pro Max, iPad.

    need to see if it can beat Huawei Mate XT Tri-Fold

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      • Anonymous
      • 0Zb
      • 1 hour ago

      Ohh lord Samsung, please make it so costly that people have to sell their house to buy it.

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        • Annonnymoose
        • thc
        • 2 hours ago

        Samsung announces thier trifold phone,
        JerryRigEverything's hands are twitchin.

          Yes, I'm just waiting for a 65" TV folding into 10 sides and fit in the pocket 😀

            I've owned Z Fold 4 for nearly a year and dumped it to get S24U.
            Here's what no reviewer will tell you so if you want one, let my experience and conclusions add to the equation. Keep in mind this is ZF4 / Samsung specific, of course.

            1) Case situation is ridiculous. There's no good solution for frames this thin - the best cases use adhesive stripes to glue the case to the body. Good luck cleaning the phone if sand or dust gets under it, and IT WILL. My ZF4 frames looked bad because whatever got under the case, was then grinded between it and the phone body and since the case is "duct-taped" to the phone, you don't want to take it off too many times and risking it'll fall off at the worst possible time. And all cases for these are expensive, at least those offering relatively good level of protection. Without case, it's tough to open the phone. Besides, using one without a case is really asking for trouble.
            2) You're locked in Samsung's release schedule. It's difficult to sell a used foldable because people don't want to risk this much money. So if you want as much money back as possible, Samsung will buy your phone for a pretty good price. Except only when new ZF generation launches. I've tried selling it for a buy-back money for S24U and the offer was laughable. ($375 for a phone that's not even a year old!) Only when ZF5 premiered, did they offer enough for me to actually consider changing the phone ($750). I was disappointed in this situation and decided to call it quits before I find myself stranded.
            3) Most apps still can't use the internal big screen correctly. It's especially visible when reading (and I like reading books, or news in the fields that interest me). In the end, most mobile versions of web pages are designed for bar phones, so they don't use the real estate of the internal screen to its maximum potential. Two sentences, broken by an add, and then another two sentences - imagine that on a square screen. Top 20% taken by 2 rows of text, middle 60% in height and 20% in width filled with an add, bottom 20% another two sentences. Two big columns on both sides empty. There really is no point to the bigger screen unless you start ad blocking, but then some pages won't display the content for you if ad block is detected. Same goes for any video - put it to fullscreen, now you have top and bottom black bars of nothingness. Navigation is nice because it offers more real estate, but Google Maps still can't use square screen correctly, so left half of the big square internal screen is taken by route information, while the right half is your map. Might as well just close it and use it like that. Or use a regular phone.
            4) But most of all, the battery life on ZF4 was sub-par even in comparison with normal S24, for a very increased price point. The overall experience is that it's an awesome bending screen technology that transforms the device depending on your current needs, but everything else is just suboptimal, except for performance (that I did not complain about). Cameras are worse and when I switched to S24U, it's painfully visible in photos and videos that both phones make, although arguably, it's a tough mountain to climb to get compared to the top offering in a company's line up. Charging speed is acceptable, but that's the best you can say about it. Should be faster at this price point, no excuses. No charger in the box? Ridiculous.

            So, all in all, I loved most parts of my experience with ZF4, but it's far from a product that fully and efficiently utilizes what hardware brings to the table. When apps are handled better, when content is more optimized for the internal screen, when battery life is more comparable with bar phones, when internal screen is more resistant to tiny hair-like scratches, and last-but-not-least - when the price doesn't lock you in the foldable world of one phone maker - only then would these product make enough sense to be desirable. There are far too many trade offs now that would justify this type of hardware as a true mass market option, and sales numbers confirm exactly that.

            EDIT: Forgot to add one important thing. Keep in mind all this is ZF4 that's IP68. My 2 year old son played with the phone with his hands straight after eating fries so I could just wash the oil up under water and the phone was just fine. Most still don't offer water or dust resistance so god help you if you have to watch out for these extra things on top of everything else. At least with ZF4, I could forget about those little shortcomings.

              Seriously like who cares. bar phones cost half of foldables and have much bette sppecs and battery.
              bar phones can be protected by a proper screen protector made from protective glass like Panzer glass for example.
              Foldables cost way too much their screen is plastic and their durability is hmmm trying to find better word but suspicious will do. In other words i am still curious after a 7 years this rather to say useless obsolette costly gimmick still selling and is not in history books yet.
              Thats really strange.

                Anonymous, 9 hours agoThe inner tri-fold will be interesting. Is it still necess... moreno foldable can have "no problems with durability", especially something as out of the left field as the Mate XT. Foldables are already super fragile and having a screen on the outside should be an even bigger cause for concern.

                I hope there's two types of foldables. One that folds like Huawei and another that folds like this Samsung prototype, so people can have both lol

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                  • MxQ
                  • 6 hours ago

                  Anonymous, 9 hours agoThe inner tri-fold will be interesting. Is it still necess... moreI remember it's screen dying in the first week of release. Specifically thanks to that exposed edge on the side (when people didn't use protective cover of the case that came with the phone). This was a rather hit topic on Chinese socials.
                  Or I'm completely out of the loop and the problem has been magically solved. Doubt it.

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                    • sdkk
                    • 3FL
                    • 7 hours ago

                    Any phone can be foldable if you're strong enough. 🤣🤣🤣

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                      • TENGBORLENG
                      • I@H
                      • 9 hours ago

                      Interesting.... very interesting indeed

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                        • Anonymous
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                        • 9 hours ago

                        The inner tri-fold will be interesting. Is it still necessary to protect the inner screen and not use it as an outer screen? The Mate XT Ultimate seems to have no problems with durability.

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                          • 11 hours ago

                          another proof that samsung is behind with Huawei 🤷

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