Final week we heard that Samsung was working by itself tri-fold smartphone to rival Huawei’s Mate XT. Samsung was then stated to be unleashing this system within the second half of this 12 months, with lower than 300,000 models obtainable as a result of very difficult manufacturing processes required.
As we speak a brand new report from Korea takes that quantity down even decrease. Apparently, there’ll solely be round 200,000 models made. Components for the system can be produced beginning within the second quarter (April to June).
Allegedly, Samsung has now shared its plans with “main element producers”. The Samsung tri-fold system has a display screen dimension of slightly below 10″ when totally unfolded in the mean time, however do take into account that the identical report additionally tells us that the design hasn’t been finalized but.
Curiously, the report additionally claims that gross sales of the Galaxy Z Fold SE are lower than 100,000 models to this point. Samsung can also be rumored to be creating the Galaxy Z Flip FE for this 12 months. Samsung expects to promote round 7 million foldable gadgets this 12 months, of which 3 million can be Flip7 models, 2 million Fold7 models, 900,000 Flip FE models, and the aforementioned 200,000 tri-fold models.
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