If you were hoping there might be changes and the Samsung Galaxy TriFold smartphone would make its way to Canada, sadly, there is no chance of that happening anymore. The phone, which was announced three months ago and just arrived in the U.S. in January 2026, is reportedly being discontinued.
According to Bloomberg, production on the device, which costs a cool US$2,899, would wind down in Korea and discontinued in the U.S. after existing inventory depletes. Samsung has not officially confirmed this news, Dong-A Ilbo in Korea said the final restock of the phone would come today, March 17, and the Samsung website no longer provides details on future restocks. It’s simply noted on the website as being sold out.
It’s unclear why the decision was made, since Samsung has a fairly health foldables line-up and the cost of the TriFold, while steeper, is still in line with its other prestige foldables. It’s a niche device, of course, but providing limited inventory for a small base of customers was the expectation. If Samsung is nixing production altogether, it’s a sign that the design (or the cost) simply wasn’t resonating, and it just didn’t make sense to manufacture the phone any longer, especially considering the rising costs of components.
I had the chance to play around with the Galaxy TriFold at CES 2026 earlier this year, and it’s eat. It functions like any other foldable, opening up to reveal a tablet-sized screen inside. Except it opens folio-style on either side. It still retains a thing design when folded, however, and the barely noticeable crease makes use in tablet mode comfortable.
While foldable phones are presumably doing well with an early adopter subset of customers who adore them, most either employ a dual fold design, opening like a book, or a flip-style design like the flip phones of yesteryear. Samsung’s TriFold wasn’t the only of its kind, though. Huawi launched its Mate XT, which is only available in China.
Woon-Joon Choi, Mobile Business Chief at Samsung, told Bloomberg a month ago that elements of the Galaxy TriFold would likely make their way into other core Samsung foldables eventually, including the overall larger display and the wider aspect ratio. How that will be achieved without a trifolding design remains to be seen.
For now, if you want a piece of history, have money burning a hole in your pocket, and happen to find a Samsung Galaxy TriFold phone somewhere in the U.S., you might want to pick it up. It will seemingly be one of only thousands (reportedly, only 6,000 have been stocked and sold to date) in circulation.