After long insisting that it will release its first trifold phone this year, Samsung has gotten one step closer by showing off a version of the hardware at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, being held this week in Korea. No-one’s allowed to touch it though (let alone fold it), and Samsung is staying coy about whether this is a final version of the hardware or not.

The trifold is on display in a glass case in both its folded and unfolded states. An animation shows off how the device folds between those forms, but the actual hardware is strictly static. As rumored, both sides seem to fold inwards together like a “G,” rather than the accordion-style folds of the Huawei Mate XT, now in its second generation.

Samsung hasn’t named the device, or even confirmed if this is a v

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