Samsung is bringing the Galaxy Fold to yet another market, this time Vietnam, where the device will become available for pre-order from today, November 27, 2017.

Unsurprisingly, Vietnam will see a limited launch not unlike in other markets, and a limited number of Galaxy Fold units will ship to customers on December 14. Mihai M reports on Sammobile

Galaxy Fold in Vietnam costs about the same as everywhere else

Unsurprisingly yet again, prospective Galaxy Fold buyers in Vietnam are expected to pay a full retail price of VND 50,000,000 or the rough equivalent of $2,156. However, Samsung Vietnam also talks about 12 and 24 months installment plans with 0% down, which will be available from December 13 until the end of March 2020.
The Galaxy Fold in Vietnam will be available in Cosmos Black and the retail package will contain the usual goodies, ranging from a Kevlar case to help protect the precious smartphone-tabled hybrid, to a pair of Galaxy Buds.
Customers in Vietnam will take advantage of the Galaxy Fold Premier Service which guarantees them a first screen replacement at a discount within the first year from the date of purchase. They’ll also have access to a 24/7 support line, as well as home-based technical support in five cities.
Will you buy the Galaxy Fold once the device launches in Vietnam? Are you still excited about this device, knowing that Samsung is working on at least one new foldable model for next year? Join us in the comment section below.

Galaxy Fold’s specifications

Samsung’s Galaxy Fold SM-F900F specifications and features: this is a 7,3″ (185.4mm) device with a QXGA 1536 x 2152 screen resolution. The new phone of Samsung is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 soc with a Single Core 2.84 GHz & Triple Core 2.42GHz & Quad Core 1.8 GHz configuration.
Memory of the phone is 12GB, with the device offering 512GB internal storage and of external memory. The Galaxy Fold features Accelerometer, Barometer, Physical Fingerprint Sensor, Gyro Sensor and Geomagnatic Sensor.
Notable features include Samsung Pay (MST), Samsung Pay (NFC). The device measures Unfolded: 160.9 x 117.9 x 6.9 mm Folded: 160.9 x 62.9 x 15.5 mm and weighs 263g.

The drama is unfolding with increasing strangeness

What in the world is going on over at Samsung in the wake of the Galaxy Fold delay? The whole situation keeps refusing to normalize, and instead gets weirder nearly every day. The latest is that iFixit has decided to honor a Samsung request to pull its Galaxy Fold teardown off the internet, even though Samsung apparently didn’t ask iFixit to do so directly.
This oddity follows AT&T’s seemingly arbitrary decision to email a potential ship date for the Galaxy Fold despite the fact that Samsung hasn’t officially set a new release date. By requesting that iFixit pull the teardown, Samsung is apparently willing to risk the Streisand effect when it comes to people clamoring to see the innards of its device. Here’s part of iFixit’s statement on the matter:
We were provided our Galaxy Fold unit by a trusted partner. Samsung has requested, through that partner, that iFixit remove its teardown. We are under no obligation to remove our analysis, legal or otherwise. But out of respect for this partner, whom we consider an ally in making devices more repairable, we are choosing to withdraw our story until we can purchase a Galaxy Fold at retail.
Why is Samsung doing this? We’ve asked for comment, obviously, but we suspect an answer may not be forthcoming. That leaves us with a whole pile of possible reasons we can only speculate on.
On the charitable end of the interpretation scale is that Samsung is definitely reworking the Fold, the design will change, and Samsung doesn’t want to have a teardown out there for a device it isn’t ever going to ship. Possibilities get successively less charitable from there. Perhaps the partner who provided the Fold to iFixit wasn’t supposed to, and Samsung is just enforcing a contract.

Why did Samsung want the teardown pulled?

Or maybe it’s just that the teardown served as excellent evidence that there were obvious and potentially avoidable mistakes in the Fold’s design, namely that it was too easy for dirt and grit to get inside it. That was our take when when we originally looked at the teardown, though we were also impressed at how sturdy the hinge was.
Whatever Samsung’s reasoning, it’s not a great look to issue a takedown request in any situation. Why a company that’s already straining to quell the bad press around this device would invite more of it by requesting a takedown is baffling.
To be clear, Samsung has not sent any requests to The Verge to remove our review of the Fold as it was originally designed, or any of our other content. If it responds to our request for comment on this takedown or has anything else to say, we’ll definitely let you know.
In the meanwhile, you can read the Internet Archive’s version of iFixit’s Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown right here.