Samsung to unveil triple-fold smartphone in April, would be launched alongside Galaxy Z Fold 7

Samsung is poised to release a "double-folding" foldable smartphone alongside its new Galaxy Z Fold 7 family of smartphones, with the company securing parts for its new double-folding foldable phone in April 2025.

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In a new post from ETNews, the outlet is reporting from multiple industry sources that "the double-folding multi-fold phone is being developed and produced simultaneously with the Z series. It seems that they will be released at the same time". Samsung has the Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip foldable smartphones, the former folds left and right, the latter folds up and down... but the new double-folding foldable will change that up radically.

Samsung's new double-folding foldable smartphone will introduce a nifty multi-fold functionality that will move from the single-fold use of the Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip foldables, which will further differentiate their foldable smartphones. Huawei has a tri-fold foldable smartphone, and Samsung Display is providing new foldable OLED panels for Apple's future foldable iPhone expected to drop in 2H 2026.

We're expecting to see Samsung's new double-folding foldable smartphone to have a similar look and feel to the "Flex G" prototype smartphone that we've seen Samsung Display showing off recenlty. Samsung is choosing an infolding structure where the screen folds inwards, and since the display is folded inwards, it means that a separate display is installed on the outside of the phone.

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The main display -- well, the internal display -- is 9.96 inches, and the external display is 6.49 inches, making it the same display size as the Galaxy Z Fold 7 foldable smartphone. Samsung's new double-folding foldable smartphone won't have a digitizer, so we should expect that when it's double-folded, it'll be thicker than a regular foldable (duh).

The digitizer not showing up for Samsung's double-folding foldable smartphone means that the phone will be thinner, as the digitizer is the key component for pen input on Galaxy smartphones, as it forms a magnetic field on the display. Samsung has been using this since the Galaxy Z Fold 3, but it will not make the show for the Galaxy Z Fold 7 or the new double-folding foldable.

Samsung is expected to produce around 200,000 units of its new double-folding foldable smartphone, and that this small number being produced is to gouge reaction from consumers on the new double-folding foldable smartphone.