- The Samsung Galaxy tri-fold telephone could launch in China and Korea solely, if a brand new rumor is something to go by
- Also, a brand new patent submitting suggests Samsung has created a design for a quad-fold telephone with three hinges
- Samsung has not acknowledged both the rumor or the patent
At this 12 months’s first Samsung Galaxy Unpacked occasion, Samsung hinted that it’s engaged on a multi-fold telephone – additionally known as a tri-fold telephone – which has since come to be identified on the rumor mill because the Samsung Galaxy G Fold.
However, a brand new rumor means that eager Samsung followers in lots of components of the world may very well be left disillusioned by the Galaxy G Fold’s availability at launch.
As GSMArena studies, listings have been found within the GSM Association’s database for 2 new Samsung mannequin numbers, SM-F968N and SM-F9680. It’s suspected that these confer with the supposed multi-fold telephone.
The report provides that Samsung sometimes makes use of the N suffix for telephones destined for its dwelling market of South Korea, whereas a code ending in 0 denotes a Chinese launch.
There are not any different listings for the SM-F968 in the intervening time, which suggests the telephone will likely be coming to China and Korea at the beginning.
It’s additionally potential that Samsung isn’t planning a wider launch for the Galaxy G Fold – we beforehand noticed the same launch for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold SE in October 2024, and that telephone has but to seem on retailer cabinets outdoors of China and Korea.
However, this would appear like an odd selection contemplating the corporate beforehand teased multi-fold gadgets on the globally-streamed Samsung Galaxy Unpacked occasion in January.
A fourth fold?
Though we haven’t even had official affirmation of a particular tri-fold system from Samsung, one other rumor means that the corporate may very well be pushing forward with the subsequent stage of folding telephone evolution.
A patent uncovered by SamMobile exhibits that Samsung has patented a brand new design that will enable for a three-hinged, four-panelled folding telephone.
The design incorporates a hinge proper in the course of the inside show, with the telephone folding inwards on both facet.
We don’t know whether or not Samsung intends to make this design a actuality any time quickly – it may simply be an instance of them sitting on mental property.
In any case, if Samsung does skip over the West with the Galaxy G Fold, I hope we’re at the least thought-about for any quad-fold telephones that crop up in years to return.
