📝 usncan Note: Samsung New TriFold Phone Upgrade Now Makes Sense
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Samsung’s tri-fold phone could use Galaxy Z Fold 7 technology. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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Samsung’s long-rumored, and now confirmed, triple-folding phone will land this year. We’ve seen Samsung—and other companies—demo phones that roll up, twist, and yes, fold three times, at trade shows in the last decade. Now one of those concepts is about to become reality thanks to a new technological breakthrough Samsung made earlier this year.
The Galaxy S25 Edge launched in May as an ultra-slim version of the Galaxy S25 Ultra. At the time, I didn’t understand why the Korean company would release a slim phone with a small battery when battery life remains one of the most important factors for users when buying a handset.
Since then, we have seen the technology Samsung created to make the Edge possible be repurposed in the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Ultimately, making it slimmer without compromising battery life (Samsung says it lasts one hour longer than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, but in day-to-day use, it feels largely the same). And now that tech will almost certainly be used again in the unnamed TriFold phone, which I think is Samsung’s true main-event device for 2025 (and beyond).
In case you missed it, Samsung shrunk several components and created a new motherboard to make the ultra-slim Galaxy S25 Edge. That included a new mounting system—that allowed components to be placed closer together on the motherboard— alongside a new heat management system.
The 200MP camera, too, was redesigned to be 10% slimmer via “structural optimization of the autofocus and optical image stabilization,” as Samsung describes it. Alongside a two-layer camera housing design that reduces the height of the sensor. The result is a Galaxy S25 Edge that measures 5.2mm versus the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s 8.2mm.
The difference in thickness between the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Fold 7 is 3.2mm. That device-slimming technology makes a tri-fold phone far less imposing and therefore a legitimate consumer-ready device. Imagine adding a third layer to the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and how bulky that would be. It wouldn’t work. Don’t take my word for it, take a look at how cumbersome TCL’s triple-folding smartphone looks.
Samsung Will Release More Folding Devices In 2026
Samsung isn’t going to release a device that doesn’t work or isn’t polished. A gimmicky, half-thought-out, clunky device that turns heads and fails on you six months later. Samsung’s TouchWiz days are over. So if the TriFold is ready with Samsung’s high-quality finish, then I expect we will see this phone on a lot of shelves in 2026 and other Galaxy devices using the same technology.
I would not be surprised if we saw giant tablets that compress into a portable shape, big screen laptops that fold down like a transformer and external displays that can fit into a trouser pocket. Samsung has already demoed a bunch of these concepts in previous years and now they’re becoming a reality. The Galaxy S25 Edge and the upcoming TriFold phone are the first steps towards an entirely new series of folding Galaxy devices that we will see much more of in 2026.
