{"id":273323,"date":"2026-01-31T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273323\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:31:13","slug":"i-was-prepared-for-the-galaxy-z-trifold-price-but-samsung-isnt-easing-the-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273323\/","title":{"rendered":"I was prepared for the Galaxy Z TriFold price, but Samsung isn’t easing the blow"},"content":{"rendered":"

What you need to knowSamsung has launched the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold in the U.S. without offering any trade-in or early discount options.Unlike past Galaxy launches, Samsung is not providing trade-in deals, bundles, or launch incentives for early buyers.Buyers must pay full price upfront and rely on third-party resale platforms to sell their current smartphones.<\/p>\n

Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is an ultra-expensive smartphone that starts at $2,899<\/a> in the U.S., and if you were hoping to soften that blow by trading in your current flagship, it looks like that’s not happening.<\/p>\n

After launching in parts of Asia and the Middle East, the Galaxy Z TriFold<\/a> has officially gone on sale in the U.S. today. The $2,899 price tag (plus taxes!) is already eye-watering, but Samsung doesn’t seem prepared to ease things even a little by offering early discounts or trade-in options for its first tri-folding phone.<\/p>\n

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Samsung usually rolls out aggressive launch deals for its flagships. For example, when the Galaxy S25 Ultra launched last year, Samsung was offering up to $900 off<\/a> through a mix of early discounts and trade-ins. We’re expecting something similar for the Galaxy S26 series<\/a> as well, which debuts next month.<\/p>\n

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That doesn’t appear to be the case with the Galaxy Z TriFold.<\/p>\n

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As first spotted by 9to5Google<\/a> yesterday, Samsung briefly made the Galaxy Z TriFold order page live a day before official sales began. While the page showed the usual bundles and add-ons, there was one thing missing: any option to trade in an existing smartphone.<\/p>\n

Now that the Galaxy Z TriFold is officially on sale<\/a>, that detail has been confirmed. Samsung isn’t offering any trade-in options at all for early adopters of its tri-folding phone.<\/p>\n

This means that if you want to buy the Galaxy Z TriFold right now, your only option is to pay the full $2,899 upfront and then sell your current phone<\/a> separately, either through a third-party service like Swappa or by listing it yourself on eBay.<\/p>\n

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Android Central’s Take<\/p>\n

This is pretty outrageous, if you ask me. Samsung is already charging an absurd amount for this phone, and while I get that the engineering costs are high and production volumes are likely limited, offering at least some form of trade-in or early discount would have gone a long way.<\/p>\n

But then, Samsung may be intentionally targeting a very specific audience with the Galaxy Z TriFold, one that probably doesn’t care much about trade-ins to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What you need to knowSamsung has launched the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold in the U.S. without offering any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-273323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}