Samsung is one of the leading smartphone brands when it comes to foldable smartphones. The South Korean giant has already launched two foldable smartphones and is gearing to launch the third one.
Now, a new patent for foldable smartphone from Samsung has surfaced online. The patent shows a smartphone that has two folding lines in a clamshell pattern — each from the top and the bottom of the device.
The bottom part can be folded to the front while the top part can be folded towards the back of the phone. However, from the images, it seems that the device cannot be folded into a completely flat design.
The patent was applied by Samsung Display in 2018 and it took about one and a half years for it to get approved and published. Once Samsung Display completes the development of such a screen, Samsung Electronics will make a smartphone using the technology.
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But do note that the patent approval doesn’t necessarily mean that the company will make a smartphone using the same design. In this case, we doubt if the company is planning to launch a smartphone with such design, especially given that the phone cannot be bend into a flat design, making it difficult to use and carry.
However, we do expect to see foldable smartphones in the near future that can be folded twice and give a much better user experience compared to the one showed in this patent application.
Samsung has so far launched Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Z Flip in the market and the company is gearing up to launch the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 in the coming months, as a successor to the company’s first foldable smartphone.
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