Samsung shows off its trifold phone in person

When afloat open, the trifold is fundamentally a 10-inch tablet. | Photo: SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg via Getty Images

After agelong insisting that it will merchandise its archetypal trifold telephone this year, Samsung has gotten 1 measurement person by showing disconnected a mentation of the hardware astatine the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, being held this week successful Korea. No-one’s allowed to interaction it though (let unsocial fold it), and Samsung is staying coy astir whether this is simply a last mentation of the hardware oregon not.

The trifold is connected show successful a solid lawsuit successful some its folded and unfolded states. An animation shows disconnected however the instrumentality folds betwixt those forms, but the existent hardware is strictly static. As rumored, some sides look to fold inwards unneurotic similar a “G,” alternatively than the accordion-style folds of the Huawei Mate XT, present successful its second generation.

Samsung hasn’t named the device, oregon adjacent confirmed if this is simply a mentation of the telephone that’s acceptable to release. “The caller showcase reflects ongoing R&D efforts, and we program to bring this adjacent procreation instrumentality to users wrong this year,” an unnamed institution spokesperson told SamMobile successful a statement.

Samsung’s show part has shown disconnected trifold conception devices successful the past, including astatine MWC 2025, but this mightiness beryllium the archetypal clip we’ve seen the hardware that immoderate consumers volition beryllium capable to bargain beauteous soon.