Samsung’s long-awaited dual-hinge foldable is looking to be something of a full-blown workhorse, if a new round of leaked animations are any indicator. The clips, shared by trusted leakers @TechHighest and @evowizz on X, represent a tri-fold device that goes all in on multitasking, desktop-style workflows, and pro-grade camera aspirations — clear signals Samsung is keen to make this form factor more than a novelty.
New Animations Introduce a Productivity Play
The most eloquent sequences concern fluid handoffs of a task and multiwindow control. One of the animations demonstrates how apps can continue without interruption as, on the cover screen, an app will expand seamlessly across the entire internal canvas when you open the device — no rebooting, no stutter in layout. Another shows Samsung Internet running with a dedicated Galaxy AI panel that can either take up about a third of the screen for side-by-side assistance or be popped out into a floating window so you can inquire about something without losing focus.
Phone calls show up as floating windows with the ability to move them around the screen and full multitasking controls, which feels like a welcome evolution of Samsung’s “always-on-top” approach on the Galaxy Z Fold line. And there’s a handy trick that mirrors your home screen layout from the cover display to the main display, lessening the jarring context change. One of the clips also shows the opened device turned to portrait orientation, suggesting layout flexibility tall enough for reading and document work.
A Camera That Takes Care of Business Needs
Perhaps the most striking tidbit is a camera UI with an option for 100x zoom. That’s been the hallmark of Samsung Ultra phones, which draw on a periscope telephoto and aggressive computational photography. If this feature does make it to the tri-fold, it would also be a step forward for foldables in general, which usually come with stripped-down camera hardware due to space and weight concerns. It implies Samsung may be prepared to go with a deeper camera module and lends hope that, instead of the standard “tablet-first, camera-second” compromise, this device might strike a better balance.
For professionals who are photographing documents or whiteboards or content at an event, that kind of reach is actually useful. It straddles the line between a productivity tablet and a flagship camera phone — and those are two categories that have never converged.
Desktop Ambitions With DeX and Multiwindow Features
The animations also indicate Samsung DeX support, so you can expect the familiar desktop-like environment we’re used to from Galaxy phones and accessories. In the case of a tri-fold canvas, DeX could evolve from “nice to have” to daily driver: imagine a three-pane workspace with email, documents, and chat all displayed at once, with floating utilities for calls or AI help.
Samsung has spent years improving split-screen and pop-up views on One UI, resulting in a taskbar and drag-and-drop that are natural for larger displays. Especially given Samsung’s multitasking-friendly tri-pane on the Galaxy Z Fold series, a dual-hinge design should allow more stable layouts and less cluttered, cramped windows than you’d expect from an 8–10 inch tablet. It’s the sort of configuration where a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse could turn it into an actual, portable workstation.
How a Tri‑Fold Design Improves the Unified Display
Unlike dual-screen devices like the Microsoft Surface Duo, a tri-fold design would provide a singular continuous display — with no bezels in between the panes. Samsung Display has already shown off a number of tri-folds, named “Flex S” and “Flex G,” at industry events like Display Week, suggesting the panel tech is becoming more mature. This unified canvas is important: a single, large screen is better for spreadsheets, video editing timelines, and side-by-side document review than two separate panels.
There are engineering hurdles. Two hinges add to the mechanical complexity, crease handling, and tolerance buildup. Battery splitting into three parts should be thermally stable under heavy multitasking and DeX. “Yield and durability are key challenges with advanced foldables, and when it comes to a tri-fold, those issues become even more important,” according to Display Supply Chain Consultants. Yet Samsung’s high-cycle hinge testing — usually rated for hundreds of thousands of folds on current devices — does provide a foundation of confidence.
If Samsung threads the needle, there’s an obvious payoff: a device that fits in a pocket and runs a video call, notes app, and web browser at once without feeling too cramped. Imagine you’re reviewing a client deck while keeping Slack open for feedback, and using the AI panel to display summaries — all while remaining on a call in a floating window. That’s the sort of workflow consolidation that tablets and laptops have had cornered up until now.
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What to Watch For in the Coming Foldable Cycle
Analysts at Counterpoint Research and IDC have charted steady escalation in foldable shipments and believe the segment will grow meaningfully in coming years as prices drop and perceptions around durability improve. At the same time, software is finally catching up: your favorite productivity apps (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack) now offer multi-pane and resizable layouts on large-screen Android devices — which should adapt quite nicely to a tri-fold’s form factor.
Leaked animations are not the same as spec or price confirmation, and nothing is ever 100% until it happens. But these feel less like speculative mockups and more like internal marketing assets. And they deliver a coherent message: Samsung’s dual-hinge foldable isn’t just a frivolous plaything or a reinvented flip phone; it’s shaping up to be a productivity-first machine with desktop aspirations, credible camera chops, and the sort of user interface polish that could finally turn an expensive, underpowered foldable into the only computer most people need on the go.
