Samsung’s first tri-fold device (which might be called Galaxy G Fold) has been in the rumors a lot this year, and now it seems like it will get a release later in 2025. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it could be limited to just two countries.
We’ve seen this play out before with the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition, which only launched in Korea and China last year, and incidentally those are the two countries where the tri-fold will be available too.
Samsung tri-fold smartphone in the GSM Association database
That is according to the phone’s listing in the GSM Association’s database, which currently only has the SM-F968N and SM-F9680 variants up. The “N” suffix is the one Samsung uses for its home market, while the “0” suffix is for its devices destined for China.
The device is codenamed Q7M, as revealed recently, and this codename appears in the database as the “market name”, erroneously of course. This may have been a way for Samsung to prevent the name of the device being leaked, and it was obviously successful (unless it’s called Galaxy G Fold, that is).
Historically, Samsung devices get added to the GSM Association’s database about 6-7 months before their launch. That means the tri-fold smartphone might arrive around October, but of course nothing is set in stone just yet. What we do know is that it will have a very limited production run, which explains the limited availability in only two markets.
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