Samsung‘s newest phone is coming in hot.
Fresh off its appearance at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, in Las Vegas, the Galaxy Z TriFold will officially hit the U.S. market on January 30, the tech giant announced on Tuesday. And the folding phone will start at $2,899—making it the most expensive smartphone on the market. (An iPhone 17 Pro Max, the newest model, retails from $1,999 with 2 TB of storage.)
The TriFold can fold—as the name suggests—three times, revealing a much larger screen than its predecessors that can stretch to a 10-inch tablet when fully opened. The advanced AMOLED display is also a step up from your regular ol’ cellphone quality. Available only in black, the phone measures just 3.9 mm at its thinnest, but still offers 512 GB of storage and a 200 MP camera. And, in terms of durability, Samsung put the TriFold through a rigorous test cycle, folding the phone 200,000 times to ensure that its quality would stand the test of time. (Creasing in folding phones is often a major problem.)
“Samsung has a long history of pioneering category-defining devices,” Drew Blackard, senior VP of mobile product management at Samsung Electronics America, said in a press statement. “Galaxy Z TriFold builds on that legacy with a standout form factor that allows users to enjoy the convenience of a smartphone and the usability of a tablet within a single design that can fold into your pocket.”
This isn’t the first foldable phone from Samsung, either. The original Galaxy Fold launched in 2019, with a sale price of $1,980. We tested the model upon debut and felt it had some fantastic innovations, such as the five-camera system, but also some drawbacks, including creasing and lack of durability. Since then, the tech giant has spawned other iterations of its folding smartphones, like its Galaxy Z Fold2 5G, which we felt was superior to its successors in every way, surpassing them in build quality and more. We’ll have to wait and see if Samsung got the recipe right with the Galaxy Z TriFold, then. The new phone will be available to purchase at Samsung stores and on the Samsung website on Friday.
