Samsung Ends $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold Sales After Just Three Months (9to5google.com)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/03/17/1650233/samsung-ends-2899-galaxy-z-trifold-sales-after-just-three-months
- Source link: https://9to5google.com/2026/03/16/samsung-is-reportedly-ending-galaxy-z-trifold-sales-after-just-three-months/
> The Galaxy Z TriFold [2]launched in South Korea barely four months ago, arriving in Samsung's home market ahead of a larger debut in the U.S. and other markets in January. The [3]$2,899 smartphone brought an entirely new form factor to the foldable market, but it's apparently very short-lived.
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> [4]Korean media reports (via [5]SamMobile ) that Samsung is planning to end sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold in Korea, with one more restock coming in the country this week. In the United States, the report mentions that the TriFold will be available until "the current production volume is sold out," which sounds like we might only get another restock or two here as well.
[1] https://9to5google.com/2026/03/16/samsung-is-reportedly-ending-galaxy-z-trifold-sales-after-just-three-months/
[2] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/12/02/0511211/samsung-debuts-its-first-trifold-phone
[3] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/1446201/samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-will-cost-2900-in-the-us
[4] https://www.donga.com/news/Economy/article/all/20260316/133538775/1
[5] https://www.sammobile.com/news/looks-like-samsung-doesnt-want-to-sell-the-galaxy-z-trifold-anymore
Sold Out, Did They? (Score:2)
LOL!
The REAL reason it got cancelled (Score:5, Funny)
Samsung's chairman, Lee Jae-yong, was overheard saying "F*** everything, we're doing 5 folds."
Fool me once ... (Score:2)
Every time I/we pay extra for more screen real estate, it just gets hijacked for advertising, on-screen controls and other crap obscuring the content or the stupid website breaks the content over several pages and refuses to flow or size text.
Samsung should get all those idiots to chip in and buy me a three grand phone if they are the ones getting to use it.
Jacket (Score:2)
I'd buy 2 iPads professional and one of the special jackets with a pocket for them instead.
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I love the way you pluralized that. I don't think it's right, as it isn't hyphenated or a Norman root, but I really enjoyed it.
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> I love the way you pluralized that. I don't think it's right, as it isn't hyphenated or a Norman root, but I really enjoyed it.
I'm honestly impressed anytime I see someone add a pluralizing 's' without adding an apostrophe. It's almost unheard of!
Who could've seen this coming? (Score:2)
Overpriced phone based on a wildly unpopular form factor isn't successful and is cancelled. Who'd a thunk it?
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Yeah, I couldn't imagine wanting one of these at all, let alone paying almost three grand for it. I've had the same $200 phone for five years.
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I could. I don't look at it as a phone so much as a foldable tablet with a screen sufficiently large as to be actually useful.
If it also happens to work well as a smartphone when folded down then that could likewise be useful.
Trouble is, it needs to be no more expensive than a phone and a tablet separately purchased in order for most potential customers to justify it. If it costs more than both combined then scant few will bother adopting it.
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Just about any new form factor is going to be 'wildly unpopular' unless it takes off.
It is usually hard to get it right the first time either. Look at Apple, they became one of the biggest tech vendors on the planet mostly by spotting other innovative products, and some combination of
1) Waiting for the tech to mature, and cloning with improved capabilities
2) Identifying and fixing usability issues and delivering an improved implementation
3) waiting for the public to be ready / marketing the hell out of some
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Overprices? For certain. Unpopular form factor? As soon as you use a folding phone, you'll never go back. I've owned the first 4 Z-Flips. The first 3 are practically indestructible without a case. The exterior screens on the 5 and later destroyed that feature. Still, the Z-Flips fit in your pocket easily and won't be warped by your skinny jeans. It's an example of listening to phone reviewers instead of people who use them day to day. For the win, my original was with me for a 5 week hospital stay. I never
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> Overpriced phone
Given the problem was turning a profit due to manufacturing costs, by all accounts it was underpriced.