Samsung’s $2,500 Tri-Fold Beast: The Phone That Folds Your Reality (And Your Bank Account) – Fold or Flop?
Seoul, December 4, 2025 – Samsung just dropped the most unapologetically extra smartphone in history, and the internet is having a full-blown meltdown.
Meet the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold: a phone that starts life looking like a thick chocolate bar, unfolds once into a normal-sized slab, then unfolds again sideways into a 10.2-inch mini-tablet. Three screens. Two hinges. One very brave pricing team that decided $2,499 is totally reasonable for something you’ll probably butterfly-drop on day one.
Yes, you read that right. Two. Thousand. Four. Hundred. And Ninety-Nine. Dollars. Before tax. For a phone.
The specs are predictably insane
- Inner display: 10.2″ 4K LTPO OLED when fully open, 7.6″ when half-open, 6.5″ when closed
- Two vapor-chamber cooling systems because apparently three screens generate Xbox-level heat
- Snapdragon 8 Elite “for Galaxy” with a rumored 20% bigger boost core
- 200 MP main + 50 MP ultra-wide + 50 MP 5× periscope
- S Pen support across all three panels (yes, the stylus magnetically sticks to the middle seam like it’s mocking physics)
- 5,200 mAh battery that somehow survives a day despite feeding three displays
- Under-display cameras on both inner screens so your Zoom calls look like you’re presenting from the future
The internet’s hottest takes, ranked
- “This is the Surface Neo we were promised in 2019 but Microsoft was too scared to ship.”
- “$2,500?? Bro I can buy a MacBook Air and still have enough left for therapy.”
- “Finally, a phone that can run three Excel sheets side-by-side without making me want to yeet myself into the sun.”
- “Imagine dropping this at 2 a.m. in the club and it opens like a Beyoncé stage prop.”
Huawei laughed. They’ve been selling tri-folds in China for over a year (Mate XT, anyone?), but Samsung’s version is thinner (9.8 mm closed vs Huawei’s 12.8 mm), has actual Google services, and comes in a ridiculous Bora Purple-to-Silver gradient that looks like a Lisa Frank fever dream.
The real question nobody wants to ask
Is this the future, or is Samsung just flexing because it can?
Foldable sales are still <3% of the global smartphone market. Samsung itself admitted the Duo-style Z Fold series plateaued. So why go full Gundam now? Because Apple is reportedly testing tri-folds behind closed doors, and Samsung refuses to let anyone else own the “insane folding thing” narrative again.
Early hands-on reactions from Seoul
Tech YouTubers who got 15 minutes with review units are using words like “sorcery,” “impossibly premium,” and “I forgot how to close it and almost cried.” The hinge feels like it was engineered by NASA interns on Red Bull. Dex mode on a 10-inch screen is stupidly good. Watching three YouTube videos at once is the chaotic energy we apparently needed in 2025.
But then you remember the price
At $2,500, this isn’t a phone. It’s a flex. It’s a “my bonus hit” purchase. It’s the reason your partner will leave you. For context, that’s:
- More than a 16″ MacBook Pro M4 Pro base model
- Literally two Galaxy S24 Ultras + a vacation
- Enough to buy 833 Costco rotisserie chickens
Verdict: Fold or Flop?
Fold. Hard. If you have the money and ever dreamed of turning heads harder than a Cybertruck owner.
Flflop. For 99.9% of humanity who still think $1,200 is “premium.”
Samsung just built the most technically impressive smartphone on the planet. Whether anyone actually buys it is a completely different story.
Pre-orders start December 12. Good luck explaining this one to your accountant.
Would you fold for $2,500? Drop your hottest take below before your timeline explodes.
