Samsung to Discontinue Galaxy Z TriFold After Just Three Months

[VPRunner]

Actually it only folds twice.

BBCWatcher is actually correct. Trifold is a term used in the printing industry that references the number of panels in the final product after folding. The Samsung is trifolded into three panels, one for each month.

 

[ImAlwaysRight]

I mean $2900 for a phone? A phone?

I guess it's for the people who spend $180,000 on a car.

 

[555gallardo]

aaaand that’s a wrap!

 

[Berserker-UK]

Have you tried folding it a third time? It's doable, but it will be the last time you fold it.

Best not give JerryRigEverything too many ideas!

 

[Macalway]

Funny how the Z actually looks like the phone. Maybe they should call the regular fold a V fold.

 

[Blackstick]

I mean $2900 for a phone? A phone?

Sungsam is just warming up the rage batteries for Apple this Fall.

 

[Gix1k]

You'd be an idiot to pay $2900 for a phone or tablet of any sort.

 

[Kidseeghost]

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[k1121j]

Not enough people want a $2,000+ phone. I’m just waiting for the Vision Pro to meet the same fate.

 

[Kidseeghost]

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[B.A.T]

Further proof the iPhone Air is the phone to buy!

 

[iMac The Knife]

Haha, and some suckers paid upward of $5000 for these phones on FleeceBay.

 

[Kidseeghost]

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[iMac The Knife]

These devices always fail. See the laptop market. The form factor of a phone and laptop is set and perfect. Everything else will fail.

People said the same thing when the iPhone and the iPad were released though. I'm not saying tri-folds are going to last, but regular single fold book-style foldables are still around and their sales are increasing.

 

[ProMotionPotato]

These devices always fail. See the laptop market. The form factor of a phone and laptop is set and perfect. Everything else will fail.

Form factors don’t ‘fail’ because they’re different. They fail when their trade offs outweigh their benefits. The Tri Fold isn’t proof innovation doesn’t work it’s proof this version doesn’t.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

...an alarm that alerts the user if it's folded incorrectly.

A $2,000+ device that can be "folded incorrectly" sounds suspiciously like an engineering fail, and is certainly a user experience fail.

This is coming from the company that allowed the S-Pen to be put into the storage slot the wrong way, which made it almost impossible to remove again.

 

[neomorpheus]

I know its new tech and stuff but somehow I dont think that the price should be that high.

 

[lemoncrsh]

...an alarm that alerts the user if it's folded incorrectly.

A $2,000+ device that can be "folded incorrectly" sounds suspiciously like an engineering fail, and is certainly a user experience fail.

You’re folding it wrong

 

[Biro]

I think the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold is a proof-of-concept product more than anything else. If not, then the project shows there is a limit to what consumers - even well-heeled consumers - will pay for a phone.

 

[EM2013]

These fold phones are nothing but gimmicks

 

[lemoncrsh]

BBCWatcher is actually correct. Trifold is a term used in the printing industry that references the number of panels in the final product after folding. The Samsung is trifolded into three panels, one for each month.

Think bifold wallet. Two sides. 1 “fold”

 

[jdawgnoonan]

The high cost for a device like that simply cannot justify the additional capability. One can buy a superior tablet computer for a third of the price and the only loss is a little portability and perhaps bragging rights.

 

[miric]

RIP tri-fold. You were much ahead of your time. Even Fold is ahead because nobody needs this scrap.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

They discontinued it because they're coming out with a quad-fold phone to really put Apple to shame.

 

[snipr125]

Well it was a 100% success in its objectives. Tech demo that completely sold out due to high demand, and that people are prepared to pay thousands for a device like this.