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Samsung's Latest Patent Is a Foldable Phone (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the twist-and-bend dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A recent patent application (PDF) shows that Samsung has ambitious ideas for future phone-design experimentation, although the South Korean manufacturer may have second thoughts about bendy phones after recent battery explosions and recalls. In April, Samsung was reported to have filed a patent with the Korean Intellectual Property Office for a foldable smartphone. The application was picked up by Dutch website Galaxy Club. The document shows a narrow Samsung device with a screen that bends and folds like an old-school flip phone handset. The device is described as something that can be "folded or unfolded semi automatically." The patent also referred to a "secondary" display, which is supposed to activate when you fold the device, according to International Business Times UK.

12 of 31 comments (clear)

  1. Great, foldable explosives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Need i say more? :)

  2. Linux ? Explosion ? by stooo · · Score: 1

    Does it run Linux ?
    Does it explode ?
    (both are not related)

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  3. I'll get the popcorn by namgge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple's already got at least one patent for a folding phone:

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-...

    Looks like they're gonna have another fight...

    1. Re:I'll get the popcorn by MouseR · · Score: 1

      You'll want to go back to the Knowledge Navigator for first Apple examples of bendy screens.

    2. Re:I'll get the popcorn by MouseR · · Score: 1

      **featuring Bill Bye

    3. Re:I'll get the popcorn by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

      The iPhone 6 is foldable, once.

    4. Re:I'll get the popcorn by stooo · · Score: 1

      >>Apples way behind the curve, they are just building smoke
      Samsung, on the other side builds smoke machines :)

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  4. Does it come with a foldable fire extinguisher? by melted · · Score: 1

    The question is, does it come with a foldable fire extinguisher?

  5. Re:TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP by LifesABeach · · Score: 1

    I would hope that both are non flammable.

  6. Ass rape by bigbang137 · · Score: 1

    That's because whenever I have purchased a Samsung phone, I have been f'ed in the azz. With Note 3, the screen died. With Note 4, the reception died. Clearly I must've been holding it wrong. With Note 7, don't ask.

  7. ITS NOT A PATENT by hashish16 · · Score: 1

    ITS IS A PATENT APPLICATION. GET IT FUCKING RIGHT SLASHDOT. I'm so sick of these stupid journalist who think an application and a patent are the same thing.

  8. Flip phone by jasonbrown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Folding phone = Flip Phone? Right?

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