Samsung has announced availability of the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold in the United States along with absolutely obscene pricing.
The new foldable, which offers an external display opening out to reveal an additional three internal displays to form a tablet, will be available across the US from January 30.
The price for the singular 512GB model? $2,899. Including sales tax, that’s well over three thousand dollars, making it by far the most expensive smartphone from a major ever sold in the United States. Considering the Galaxy Z Fold 7 starts at $2,000, you’re effectively paying an extra $900 for that extra real estate. It’s double the price of the S25 Ultra.
Of course, this isn’t your average smartphone. Those displays cost a pretty penny to produce and have been designed especially for this purpose. Those hinges? Also custom built for Samsung’s first ever tri-fold phone. That 3.9mm frame (at its thinnest points) wasn’t achieved overnight.
Samsung is not expecting to sell many of these. It has not made many of these. The idea of paying more for a phone than a top-end MacBook Pro M4 Pro doesn’t sit well, but we shouldn’t complain too much about the price. If there’s an audience, the phone will find it.
So what are you getting for your money? Hopefully long-term reliability to match that innovation and quality. The main display has been rated for 200,000 folds. That’s opening and closing 100,000 times a day for five years.
You’re also getting all the hallmarks of a top Galaxy S series device. The 200-megapixel main camera and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor. Samsung has also included the largest ever battery it has placed in a foldable phone.
