{"id":230284,"date":"2025-10-28T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230284\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:05:09","slug":"samsung-shows-off-its-trifold-phone-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230284\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung shows off its trifold phone in person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">After long insisting that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/703753\/samsung-trifold-phone-release-date-tm-roh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will release its first trifold phone this year<\/a>, Samsung has gotten one step closer by showing off a version of the hardware at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, being held this week in Korea. No-one\u2019s allowed to touch it though (let alone fold it), and Samsung is staying coy about whether this is a final version of the hardware or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The trifold is on display in a glass case in both its folded and unfolded states. An animation shows off how the device folds between those forms, but the actual hardware is strictly static. As rumored, both sides seem to fold inwards together like a \u201cG,\u201d rather than the accordion-style folds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/huawei\/667574\/huawei-mate-xt-review-trifold-phone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huawei Mate XT<\/a>, now in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/766541\/huawei-tris-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Samsung hasn\u2019t named the device, or even confirmed if this is a version of the phone that\u2019s ready to release. \u201cThe recent showcase reflects ongoing R&amp;D efforts, and we plan to bring this next generation device to users within this year,\u201d an unnamed company spokesperson told SamMobile in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Samsung\u2019s display division has shown off trifold concept devices in the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/623574\/samsung-display-concept-foldable-gaming-handheld-briefcase-mwc-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including at MWC 2025<\/a>, but this might be the first time we\u2019ve seen the hardware that some consumers will be able to buy pretty soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After long insisting that it will release its first trifold phone this year, Samsung has gotten one step&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1631,786,59,2306,50,6994,1560,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-foldable-phones","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phones","14":"tag-samsung","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}