New animations show the upcoming foldable closes in a safer way than competing Z-shaped designs.
For a while now, we’ve known Samsung was cooking up a tri-fold phone—a device with three screens that unfolds into a massive tablet. However, the big question has been how it would fold. Would it be like Huawei’s Mate XT, which folds in a Z-shape, leaving one screen always exposed? Well, thanks to a new leak, we now have a more definitive answer, and it looks like Samsung is playing it safe.
The leak, which came in the form of some animations dug up by @TechHighest on X, likely from an upcoming software build, show the placement for things like NFC and wireless charging (on the back, no surprise there). But the interesting part is watching it close. The Galaxy TriFold, as it’s being called unofficially, folds inward like a letter. The left panel folds over the middle one, and then both fold over the right panel.
