"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."
"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."
"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."
Samsung is ending sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold, its innovative dual-hinge foldable phone that expands to a 10-inch tablet, just three months after launch in South Korea and one month after US release. Despite strong consumer demand and a $2,899 price tag with units selling out quickly, Samsung is discontinuing the device. The decision stems from rapidly increasing costs of storage and memory components. The base model's generous 16GB RAM and 512GB storage configuration made the device unprofitable even at premium pricing. As a prestige engineering demonstration with limited mass-market appeal, discontinuing the TriFold allows Samsung to allocate expensive components to higher-volume products like the Galaxy S26 Ultra.
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