For years, sci-fi shows have depicted futuristic computers with shapeshifting screens that can fold or expand depending on the situation. Now, Samsung is banking on that concept to try to steer the future of smartphones.
The new Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold folds in two places — almost like a brochure — to cram an iPad-sized screen into your pocket.
Samsung showed it to the press Sunday at the CES tech conference in Las Vegas ahead of its upcoming US release, and after launching it in limited quantities in its home market of South Korea. The idea is promising although not without compromises, as is typical of new devices like these.
The phone is impressively slim as a tablet, but clunky as a phone. And it’ll almost certainly be too expensive to woo many early adopters, let alone the average smartphone shopper. (Samsung hasn’t announced pricing yet, but its Galaxy Z Fold 7, which has a smaller screen that folds in half instead of folding into thirds, starts at $2,000.)
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