After three months, Samsung is ending gross sales of the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold

Samsung has been promoting foldable telephones for years, however all of them fold in half. Recently, the corporate launched the Galaxy Z TriFold, which has two hinges that enable it to broaden from one thing approaching phone-sized to a 10-inch pill. It’s a neat engineering demo, and that’s the way it’s going to remain—Samsung has confirmed it’s ending gross sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold simply three months after it launched.

According to Bloomberg, Samsung will start winding down gross sales of the large foldable in its dwelling market of South Korea, the place the TriFold debuted in December 2025. The machine will disappear from different markets just like the US as stock is bought. Samsung launched the Galaxy Z TriFold for the US in January, making its run even shorter Stateside.

Samsung didn’t supply a rationale for this determination, however poor gross sales in all probability isn’t it. While the telephone retailed for a whopping $2,899, Samsung was promoting each unit it may produce. The firm’s web site truly teased restocks till lately, and determined patrons had been paying above MSRP on the second-hand market.

Blame for the discontinuation might relaxation with the quickly growing price of elements. Both storage and reminiscence are getting far more costly, and the Galaxy Z Trifold has a beneficiant allotment of each: 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage within the base mannequin. Samsung in all probability wasn’t making a lot cash on the TriFold even with the sky-high worth, and elevating it much more would have been a foul look.

As elements turn out to be dearer, reducing the TriFold might be a simple determination. This was clearly a status machine—a powerful feat of engineering that was by no means going to be manufactured in massive volumes. There simply aren’t that many individuals prepared to pay virtually three grand for a folding telephone, even when it morphs right into a pill. So maybe it’s finest to avoid wasting all that RAM for the newly launched Galaxy S26 Ultra, which is reportedly promoting briskly regardless of its $1,300 price ticket.