A Laptop In Your Pocket? Galaxy Z TriFold Review

Michael Fisher (MrMobile) reviews the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold after a month of daily use, concluding it’s an engineering triumph but not ready to replace a laptop or your current phone.

• Samsung shipped the TriFold with an older processor and the same compromised camera system as the Fold 7 to manage margins.
• The phone weighs 309g and is nearly 13mm thick when folded — noticeably heavier and bulkier than the Fold 7.
• In a heavy-use stress test, the 5,600 mAh battery lasted just over 8 hours with 6.5 hours of screen-on time, including 90 minutes of video calls.
• Samsung DeX runs natively on the inner 10-inch display without an external monitor — but keyboard shortcut inconsistencies across apps make it frustrating in practice.
• The inward-folding design fully protects the screen (unlike Huawei’s approach), but eliminates the intermediate 8-inch panel that makes book-fold phones versatile.
• US pricing not announced but expected above $2,400; Fisher advises against buying first-gen even beyond typical “wait for v2” logic.
• Fisher and Daniel Bader conclude the TriFold is the obvious engineering next step but not the right product step — viable pocket laptops require a mature software platform first.

2026-01-24 · Watch on YouTube