Alibaba, one of the world’s leading eCommerce platform, seems to be eyeing to enter the products market. The Chinese giant has developed a new design for a foldable smartphone and has also filed for its patent.
The foldable smartphone from Alibaba has a clamshell design and unlike the clamshell foldable smartphones that we’ve seen so far from the likes of Samsung and Motorola, this one from Alibaba can be folded twice.
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Further, the smartphone from Alibaba also has a secondary display on the upper part of the back panel which covers about one-third of the total area. However, unlike the front screen, the display panel on the back side isn’t flexible. When the phone is folded, the back screen will remain usable as a front display.
Since the foldable screen is on the inside, it remains well-protected and when the phone is folded, the secondary screen on the back can be used for making calls and notifications, among other things. There were two physical buttons on the right which will serve as ON/OFF switch and for controlling volume.
The development of Alibaba patenting a foldable smartphone design is quite interesting given that the eCommerce giant doesn’t make products of its own. Even if the phone is to make its debut commercially in the market, the company could resold or license the patent to other smartphone manufacturers.
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