Samsung’s Z TriFold is official and it looks like a tablet with a phone attached

I benignant of privation they’d called it the Z Fold Fold.

Samsung is officially announcing the Z TriFold, its much-anticipated foldable with not one, but two hinges. It’ll motorboat archetypal successful Korea connected December 12th, with a US motorboat planned for the archetypal 4th of 2026. There’s nary terms conscionable yet, but if a telephone with 1 hinge costs $2,000, you should astir apt commencement redeeming your pennies nickels for this one.

The TriFold’s interior surface measures 10 inches connected the diagonal, with a 2160 x 1584 solution and a 120Hz adaptive refresh complaint that goes each the mode down to 1Hz. That’s a batch of screen. You tin tally 3 apps vertically broadside by broadside connected it, and adjacent usage Samsung’s DeX desktop situation successful a standalone mode without a abstracted display. On paper, the TriFold’s outer surface looks a batch similar the 1 connected the Z Fold 7. It’s a 6.5-inch 1080p show with a 21:9 facet ratio.

Each of the TriFold’s 3 panels has a somewhat antithetic thickness. The halfway sheet is the thickest astatine 4.2mm, and it houses a USB-C larboard connected the bottommost edge. The thinnest sheet measures conscionable 3.9mm thick, including a carnal SIM tray, and the different sheet is 4.0mm thick. Those 2 sides fold inward implicit the halfway panel, dissimilar Huawei’s Mate XT, which folds successful a Z signifier and uses portion of the interior surface erstwhile folded.

The TriFold measures 12.9mm heavy erstwhile it’s folded — 4.7mm thicker than a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s besides thicker than a Z Fold 7, which is 8.9mm erstwhile you fold it, but it’s not acold disconnected the erstwhile Z Fold 6 which is 12.1mm folded.

Although it folds differently, the Z TriFold is beauteous adjacent successful size and value to Huawei’s Mate XT and most caller XTs. The Z TriFold is conscionable a small thicker erstwhile folded — 12.9mm versus 12.8mm — and weighs 309 grams compared to the 298g XT.

The backmost sheet is simply a “ceramic-glass fiber-reinforced polymer” designed to defy cracking. The device’s hinges are 2 antithetic sizes, some with a dual-rail plan protected by a titanium housing. Like Samsung’s different foldables, the TriFold is rated IP48 — afloat h2o resistant, but not dust-tight.

With each that going connected wrong the TriFold, Samsung has inactive managed to compression successful 3 rear cameras: a 200-megapixel f/1.7 wide angle; a 12-megapixel ultrawide; and a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto. Both the screen surface and interior surface see a 10-megapixel selfie camera arsenic well. Each of the phone’s panels houses a artillery arsenic well, adding up to a 5,600mAh capacity. The full happening is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, similar the S25 series, and includes 16GB of RAM.

One happening I’m not seeing connected the TriFold’s spec sheet? S Pen compatibility. Samsung’s Z Fold utilized to see enactment for the company’s Bluetooth stylus, but that ended with the astir caller Z Fold 7. I’ve reached retired to Samsung to corroborate and volition update this nonfiction accordingly. In the meantime, Samsung isn’t sharing however overmuch the TriFold volition outgo — either successful Korea oregon successful the US.