TL;DR
- A patent application from Samsung contains illustrations of what looks like a wider Galaxy Z TriFold.
- These images don’t necessarily mean that such a device is in development.
Samsung’s wildly expensive Galaxy Z TriFold is in limited supply, with US sales only open in person at a handful of Samsung stores around the country. That phone is already pretty novel, with its triple-folding design — and a recently surfaced US patent application shows that Samsung may have entertained a similar design with even larger displays.
IT firm NetworkRight highlighted the patent application in a blog post. The application, filed last year and published in March, is for a “multi-foldable electronic device” — the Galaxy Z TriFold — and also includes imagery showing a triple-folding smartphone with a much wider display.
