Tecno has teased a new foldable phone with three panels - a tri-fold design to potentially rival Huawei's Mate XT Ultimate Design.
The Phantom Ultimate G Fold Concept looks like a development of last year's Phantom Ultimate 2 concept, though were that phone folded in a Z pattern, the Phantom Ultimate G Fold is what Tecno calls 'dual inward folding' - it wraps shut like a book, with the left panel folding in to enclose the right panel.
This design is similar to that of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy G Fold tri-fold phone, and like any triple-panel foldable, each section has to be super-thin in order for the phone's folded profile to not be inconveniently chunky. Tecno says the Phantom Ultimate G Fold measures 3.49mm thick when unfolded (excluding the camera bump), which would make it fractionally slimmer than the 3.6mm Huawei Mate XT Ultimate, and noticeably thinner than the 4.2mm Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 two-panel foldable.
And Tecno's design needs to be thin when unfolded, as packed away the three sections still add up to an 11.49mm folded thickness: thinner than the 12.88mm Huawei, yet considerably thicker than the 8-9mm of most two-panel phones. But if you've got spacious enough pockets to store it, you'll be rewarded by a huge 9.49-inch display when the phone is fully unfolded.
Tecno's teaser video is short on detail, but we can see the phone has a three rear-facing cameras, so presumably a wide, ultra-wide and telephoto line-up. Tecno has also said the phone will pack a battery larger than 5000mAh in capacity, and will run a "high-performance chipset".
We'll report additional specs if/when they're revealed. Hopefully unlike the 2024 Phantom Ultimate 2 concept, this Tecno tri-fold will eventually make it into production. It's been reported that we might see an official launch at Mobile World Congress 2026.
