Samsung May Have Retired Its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold After Just 3 Months

Samsung is pulling the plug on its ambitious triple-folding experiment, ending sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold just three months after its debut. If true, this brings a swift conclusion to a device that was really more of a halo manifesto than a mass-market product. The phone's been selling like hot cakes, so the time to snag one is now.

Featuring two hinges and three distinct display sections, the Galaxy Z TriFold offers a 6.5-inch cover screen that expands into a tablet-like 10-inch workspace. It was designed to showcase the pinnacle of display technology (and prove that Samsung could still innovate amidst it rather copy-paste phone lineup), yet its complexity came with a hefty $2,900 price tag in the U.S. (roughly 3.6 million won in South Korea). Despite the cost though, the phone has been a consistent sell-out, often vanishing from storefronts within minutes of ...