Samsung’s foray into the nascent foldable smartphone segment isn’t really going as the company may have envisioned. Galaxy Fold strived to be the baby step that the Korean giant took towards foldables, but we’re still waiting on its official launch since the whole screen breaking crisis. In the meantime, Samsung has been granted a patent for a wild new folding smartphone.
The mechanism will involve a moving rail and the flexible OLED screen will be rolled up inside the same. The moving rail will have slots (or grooves) so that left and right sides again fit with each other when the screen is rolled in. The core components, including a headphone jack (which is doubtful), selfie camera, internals, and more will be housed in the center casing you can see in the middle in the tablet form.
We’ve seen a ton of rolling display and smartphone patents from Samsung prior to this patent, but this seems like a concept that would require a lot of work in real life. We’re awaiting the future where you will easily be able to carry a compact device on you, but choose to expand it to consume content or work on the move.
