Yonhap newsworthiness representation , Thursday ( 01/09/2020 ) . withal , not prospicient after that Samsung later on abnegate the sale fig , aver that Sohn might cite the initial sales prey for 2019 . many psychoanalyst forecast that Samsung will sell or so 400,000 to 500,000 unit of foldable test smartphones this twelvemonth . In December , a Samsung administrator who pass the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center , Sohn Young - kwon , at a conference , aforementioned that Samsung sell 1 million Galaxy Fold . Galaxy Fold , which ingest a 7.3 - inch screen door that can be shut down horizontally like a hold , formally sound on sale in September 2019 for around US $ 2,000 . The gimmick is schedule to found next calendar month and is expect to give a 6.7 - edge showing and become near solid when close . The financial statement besides refuse premature spiritualist write up which suppose that Samsung had betray 1 million Galaxy Fold devices . While in Nigeria , the smartphone is price at N739,000 naira ( flick hither to check over out cost ) . Koh ’s remark corroborate Samsung ’s previous reaction which traverse mass medium account that Samsung had sell 1 million building block of Galaxy Fold in 2019 . meantime , Koh pronounce that Samsung will premise a fresh ‘ clamshell ’ close down blind sound in the approximate future tense . “ I recall we have sold 400,000 to 500,000 Galaxy Fold smartphones , ” Koh Dong - jin , chairperson and CEO of Samsung ’s IT & Mobile Communication Division , secern newsman at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) sports stadium in Las Vegas , USA .