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Samsung is Working on a Tri-Fold Smartphone
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Maybe they should concentrate on getting rid of the "crease" in the screen, when the device is open... I've used a few different foldables, including the Z Fold, Flip and the Pixel Fold and I can't unsee the crease in the screen. I think the concept is a nice idea, but I still think it has a long way to go.
What does using a Samsung display have to with an Apple designed phone or are you making the assumption that it'll just be the same phone with an Apple logo slapped on it?
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I've spent some time testing out a Flip & a RAZR and the crease became just like Apple's notch for me
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I know better than to never say never, so I’ll simply say I don’t see myself buying any foldable device in the foreseeable future. Guy I work with has the Samsung folding phone. He’s always showing me videos on it. I’m always distracted by the crease. Doesn’t help that I have no interest in what he’s trying to show me. I also find them too thick when folded.
Each to their own. I don't like the notch much either, but I find it less distracting as the crease, I’m sure there are plenty like you that are the other way round.
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It is!
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High time! I had finally got to the point when I can confidently say I am bored of all this tech nonsense. I guess reddit soyjacks (the main target audience of Samsung) will be very happy. Like “OH WOW NO WAY IT FOLDS, INNOVATION !!!”. How can people be happy for some trash like that as if they newer grew out of childhood, and even if that thing was my childhood I doubt I would have been as happy about that.
Still cannot understand the point of ANY galaxy folds, if Apple dares to make that they will be DONE. It will sell 10 times worse than their VR skigoogles
Still cannot understand the point of ANY galaxy folds, if Apple dares to make that they will be DONE. It will sell 10 times worse than their VR skigoogles
We should give them the treat like we did with the Apple Vision Pro I know it’s ridiculous to compare that ridiculous price with a phone but no one is asking for tru folds, four folds whatever are those things we should just not buy it and that’s it.
Samsung has been making foldable smartphones since 2019, but we have yet to see a foldable iPhone from Apple. Rumors suggest that Apple's first folding iPhone could come out in 2026 or 2027, but by then, Samsung will be even further ahead in foldable device development.
Huawei's tri-fold Mate XT Ultimate
Right now, Samsung has the Galaxy Fold and the Galaxy Flip, which fold in different ways. The Galaxy Fold is larger and unfolds horizontally like a book, while the Flip has a vertical fold. According to rumors, Samsung is working on yet another foldable, this one with a tri-fold design.
Samsung's tri-fold device has been rumored for quite some time, and Samsung even teased it as a "multi-fold" device at its Unpacked event, but more information about the device came out this week. As noted by GSMArena, it's looking like Samsung could call it the Galaxy G Fold, which would make it a new product line distinct from the current Z Fold models.
The tri-fold smartphone is expected to fold out into a 10-inch screen, which would make it significantly better than the current Z Fold6 flagship foldable smartphone from Samsung. The Z Fold6 is 7.6 inches when it's opened up, while the Z Flip6 is 6.7 inches unfolded.
Samsung won't have the first tri-fold smartphone on the market, because Huawei has already released the Mate XT Ultimate. You can't get Huawei's device in the United States, though, and it costs $2,800, so Samsung will be first to a tri-fold smartphone in markets outside of China.
Samsung typically announces new foldable smartphones around July, and it's looking like we could see the tri-fold smartphone unveiled this year ahead of a launch in early 2026.
If Samsung's tri-fold smartphone launches in early 2026, it will beat any Apple foldable to market, since the earliest we expect to see an Apple foldable is 2026.
As of 2024, Apple was supposedly working on a foldable iPhone with a design similar to the Galaxy Z Flip, which means a vertical fold. Such a device would likely be similar in size to the iPhone 16 Pro Max, but with an option to fold it in half to make for a more compact size.
Article Link: Samsung is Working on a Tri-Fold Smartphone
It’s not a question of cost, it’s the fact the devices fall apart after 5 minutes
No, but if it’s anything like every other foldable in existence it’ll ruin apples image. Apple are not wizards contrary to popular belief, it’ll be a slightly nicer version than what we already have
Some posts even in this thread, you replied to if I’m not mistaken.
You can have whatever opinion you like, reality is there is a market and there is real user feedback.
A very old the onion article (before five blades, it seems):
The Onion - We're doing 5 blades
So it's a tri-section wallet and tri-section door? I STILL don't see three FOLDS, but I appreciate your snark.
Thank you for the non-snarky response. I appreciate it.As another poster explained, this is the standard nomenclature for these form factors. You see it used in, for instance, wallets (bifold and trifold). If you want to break it down, "trifold" doesn't mean it has three folds. It means it folds into three sections.
The nomenclature refers to the result, not the mechanism.
While bipanel and tripanel would be more precise, this is just the way the word use fell out. If Samsung tried to assign a different meaning to the terms from what's currently used, that would have led to confusion.
See, for instance, the entry for "trifold" in the OED, which shows it's consistently used to mean three sections, not three folds:
trifold, adj.² & n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
trifold, adj.² & n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionarywww.oed.com
Ah true there, I expect Samsung made it too lol. Despite its frustrations I still find the iPad as my favourite Apple device.