Samsung’s new Galaxy phone looks incredible but costs more than a MacBook Pro

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If the rumours are right, we are only about a month away from the announcement of Samsung’s flagship phones for this year, the Galaxy S26 series. But the tech giant has had its hands full recently, lifting the lid on the Galaxy Z TriFold, a folding phone with not one but two hinges on a bendable display that opens up to a 10-inch tablet.

My colleague Dave Snelling has had some hands-on time with the futuristic phone, but we’re still not sure if it will ever be sold on UK shores. If it ever is, it will likely cost significantly more than £2,000 given that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 retails at £1,799.

A major clue that this would indeed be the case is the US pricing for the Galaxy Z TriFold, which has just been announced. The cutting edge folding phone will go on sale in the US on January 30, with a retail price of $2,899, making it one of the most expensive mobile devices currently on the market.

That’s the exact same price as the latest MacBook Pro with M4 Pro chipset with 14-core CPU, 48GB RAM and enough oomph to edit entire movies or music tracks on.

Directly converted, $2,899 £2,100, which makes it look (only slightly) less astronomical, if only because there are phones for sale in the UK that nearly hit that price. For example, the priciest iPhone 17 Pro Max costs £1,999, but that does get you 2TB of internal storage.

The TriFold has 512GB storage, but remember, you’re getting a huge 10-inch internal folding screen, which Samsung says is rated to last 200,000 folds, the equivalent to folding it 100 times a day for five years. Samsung promises seven years of software updates, so hopefully the mechanism won’t fail if you bought it as a long-term mobile investment.

There’s a regular sized 6.5-inch display on the outside to use when it’s all folded up. There are also triple cameras similar to those you’ll find on the Z Fold 7.

But are we really ready to spend £2,100 on a smartphone? If the TriFold does come to the UK, I would not be surprised if it were…

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