At a time when the definition of smartphone innovation means doing foldables or working towards making the foldable technology reliable and mainstream, Samsung has come with an interesting idea that solves many of the problems, for which the foldables claim to have a solution.
Samsung recently filed a patent for a smartphone, the display of which can expand, giving you more screen real estate when required. You can operate the patented smartphone in two states — open and closed. In the closed state, it’ll look like a traditional smartphone, while the open state means that the display of the smartphone is expanded to a comparatively bigger size.
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You’ll be able to increase or decrease the size of the display at will, thanks to the moveable backside plate, which you’ll be able to manipulate. The patented smartphone also has a quirky sensor that can recognize a change in the touch input coordinate in real-time to calculate the degree of increase or decrease of the display screen size.
With this new design, Samsung could technically provide a smartphone that offers multiple screen sizes for a price or offer two smartphones with a greater variety of screen sizes. In any case, this could provide Samsung with a competitive advantage. Of course, this is all speculative. It’s fully possible that we’ll never see this patent come to life, though we hope it eventually does materialize into an actual product.
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