Rumors about the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold have yet to reveal the foldable phone in full. But it seems likely that 2025 will be the year we see Samsung launch its first triple-folding phone.
• A big specs leak tips a December launch for the Galaxy Z TriFold as well as display sizes and more.
• Availability for Samsung's triple foldable could be wider than expected, although rumors are still undecided if the U.S., U.K. and Australia will be part of the launch.
• The inner display of the Galaxy Z TriFold will measure 10 inches across, with an outer screen of 6.5 inches
We've already seen Samsung launch its latest wave of foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7, and that seemed like the obvious place to announce the tri-fold model. But it doesn't mean it won't launch before the end of 2025 — and rumors even suggest it may get here before the end of September.
With that in mind, we're rounding up all the rumors we've heard so far about this triple-folding phone. So read on to find out more about the cutting-edge Galaxy Z TriFold.
Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold: Possible price and release date
There are Samsung patents dating back at least as far as 2023 for triple-folding phones, but patents don't always translate to actual devices. Fortunately, talk about the Galaxy Z TriFold doesn't end with patents.
While we thought we might see the Samsung triple foldable first appear in 2024 (spoiler: we did not), the rumor mill now claims that the phone will be launching in 2025, with that forecast coming from multiple sources — including Samsung mobile chief TM Roh. The most specific claim is a December 5 release - so mark your calendar.
More recently, Ice Universe claimed that the phone would be revealed at the end of September, alongside a pair of AI glasses.
It's only been in the past year that we've heard that this device could be named Galaxy G Fold, rather than the Galaxy Z name that applies to Samsung's current foldable phones, suggesting progress is being made in marketing the phone as well as the underlying hardware. However, Samsung has also filed trademark protection for the term "Galaxy Z TriFold", with other recent rumors also suggesting that the G Fold name is far from set in stone.
We have no clue what the price of the Z TriFold could be, although we'd expect a price in excess of $2,500 when accounting for the price of the $1,900 Galaxy Z Fold 6 and then adding on extra. The Huawei Mate XT costs the equivalent of $2,800, so it's possible Samsung could charge even more, such as the three-grand pricing that some sources have alleged.
As for where you could buy this phone, there's unfortunate news from the tipsters. The Galaxy Z TriFold could possibly only be available in Korea and China, as well as the UAE — and even then only a small number will be produced.
This could make the Z TriFold very difficult to get a hold of in the U.S., U.K. or Australia, possibly leaving consumers there to wait for a second-gen product that would hopefully get a wider, more numerous release.
For what's it worth, the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 arrived in July, and there was no sign of the Z TriFold at the Unpacked launch event.
There's a possibility we could see it at the next Unpacked on September 4, though we expect the Galaxy S25 FE will be the main focus of that event.
Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold: Specs
There are still holes in the spec sheet for Samsung's triple foldable. But the rumor mongers and appearances at events like APEC CEO have helped us figure out a few things.
Firstly, the Z TriFold will apparently be an inward-folding device, which means there should still be a separate cover screen on the opposite side of the device to the main flexible display. An outward-folding device, such as the Huawei Mate XT, doesn't have a specific cover screen, but rather uses part of the folding display as the "front" screen when folded.
As for size, the Z TriFold could measure around 10 inches fully open, with a cover screen measuring 6.5 inches. That's on par with Huawei's phone, and would fit with the standard set by the 6.3-inch outer display and 7.6-inch inner display sizes of the Galaxy Z Fold 6.
Annoyingly, both of these screens on the Galaxy Z TriFold may lack stylus support due to Samsung not including the necessary digitizer layer in the display. It's an odd decision when you consider Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold models have supported S Pens for years. But as a first-gen device, perhaps the company wants to get the basics of the G Fold right before adding additional complications and costs.
Camera details are currently a mystery, other than one claim saying the main camera will be 200MP in resolution, like that of the Galaxy Z Fold 7. We'd assume the rest of the layout to match Z Fold 7, with a 12MP ultrawide camera and 10MP 3x telephoto camera on the back, and then a 12MP front camera in a punch-hole notch on the cover display and a 4MP under-display camera on the main display.
It's similar with the chip and storage specs. Samsung is tipped to be using a Snapdragon chip, but it's not obvious whether Samsung will use a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy like we saw on the Galaxy S25 series earlier in 2025, or the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Hopefully, whichever chip Samsung chooses will be joined by at least 12GB RAM and at least 256GB of storage.
The Z TriFold's battery will apparently match the size of the rival Mate XT - 5,600 mAh. That's a pretty large capacity, but it's hard to know how the battery life will be, given that there's an extra-large display to run.
Charging is apparently a known spec though, with the Z TriFold allegedly using 25W charging like Samsung's other foldables. It would be great if Samsung went for its faster 45W charging option instead, though.
Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold: Outlook
Triple foldables are still a nascent type of smartphone, as we saw at MWC 2025 earlier this year. But Samsung was at the front of the original foldable phone wave, and it looks like the company will be a dominant force again as we move from one-hinged phones to two-hinged ones.
We'd like to know more about this Galaxy Z TriFold device in advance of its rumored launch this year, and hopefully the Samsung tipsters out there will oblige when they can. But for now, we're kind of just happy knowing that Samsung is working on this kind of phone.
There's no urgency for the company to launch this phone (not yet anyway), so if Samsung can launch a device that's refined and bug-free out of the gate like Huawei, and unlike its original Galaxy Fold, then we're happy to wait a little longer.
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