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The Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold is returning to stores

Rumors of the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold's death were premature. Starting this Friday, April 10, 2026, Samsung is restocking shelves in the US with limited quantities of the innovative folding handset.

To refresh your memory, Samsung unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold phone late last year. While Samsung has been in the folding handset game for several years (see the fantastic Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7), this was the first Galaxy with two folds. Unfolded, it's just 3.9mm thick. Folded twice, it's a beefy 12.9mm. The $2,899 phone is packed with technology, including a 200MP main camera, a 6.6-inch display on the outside, and a massive, flexible 10-inch screen on the inside.

When I finally laid hands on it at CES 2026, I wrote, "The Samsung Galaxy Z Tri Fold is an uncompromising and remarkable feat of engineering that offers the potential of truly pocketable big-screen tablet productivity."

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After initially being available only in South Korea, sales opened to the US (among other markets) earlier this year. Then, just as quickly, the Galaxy Z Trifold was gone.

While numerous outlets reported the untimely end to Samsung's ultra-premium handset experiment, I wasn't so sure. After all, Samsung's public statements were fuzzy at best.

"The Galaxy Z Tri Fold was introduced as a super-premium device in limited quantities. In Korea, the strong consumer response led to all available units sold out. Customers in other countries still have the opportunity to purchase the device," a Samsung spokesperson told us at the time.

Honestly, that sounds like a success story and not one of abject failure. The Z Trifold is extraordinarily expensive and, I'm guessing, quite hard to manufacture, but if the supplies Samsung had sold out, that indicates demand, no?

Last month, after some digging, I was able to confirm that Samsung would be restocking in the US and other markets and might do so soon.

Less than a month later, it looks like that's what's happening.

As Samsung announced on Wednesday (April 8), "Samsung is bringing the Galaxy Z Trifold, the brand’s most advanced foldable innovation to date, back to its shelves."

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Samsung hasn't adjusted the price and doesn't appear to be preparing for stronger demand or even necessarily to meet current demand. As noted on the site, "restocks go by fast!", and I suspect Samsung is happy to let the Galaxy Z Trifold sell out again.

What it appears we have here is a bleeding-edge device for those who like living on the tech edge. Samsung doesn't have to make more because it's not the Galaxy phone for everyone. That's the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra — at least that's the one I recommend to everyone. For more budget-minded Galaxy fans, there's the excellent Galaxy S26 Plus, which we just reviewed.

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A 38-year industry veteran and award-winning journalist, Lance has covered technology since PCs were the size of suitcases and “on line” meant “waiting.” He’s a former Lifewire Editor-in-Chief, Mashable Editor-in-Chief, and, before that, Editor in Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff Davis, Inc. He also wrote a popular, weekly tech column for Medium called The Upgrade.

Lance Ulanoff makes frequent appearances on national, international, and local news programs including Live with Kelly and Mark, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, and the BBC.

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