Samsung’s First Trifold Phone Is Expensive and Half-Baked

Nearly seven years in, the foldable smartphone era has been a letdown — but you can’t say that hardware makers haven’t tried.

Samsung Electronics Co. became the first major player in 2019 to get in on the trend, and has kept at it since, releasing four new folding phones in 2025 alone, most recently the Galaxy Z TriFold. That device, which is available in South Korea to start and coming soon to the US, has two screens, two folds and a price of roughly $2,500 — about what it would cost to buy two high-end smartphones.