Patent Filings Reveal New Details About Microsoft's Vision For a Foldable, Dual-Screen Surface Device (geekwire.com)

A patent application published this week by Microsoft adds more fuel to the fire about the possibility of a new hybrid dual-screen Microsoft Surface device that blurs the lines between phone and tablet. From a report: The patent filing is for a "hinged device" with a "first and second portion" that includes a "flexible display." It would sport a hinge in the middle, similar in appearance to the one on the Surface Book, as well as familiar smartphone components like a bezel and camera. The inventor listed on the document is Kabir Siddiqui, who has been named on previous patent documents related to a foldable Surface device. He's also credited with inventing features like the Surface kickstand and camera. The patents represent one of the clearest signs yet that Microsoft has shown interest in building a "new and disruptive" category that includes elements of a smartphone, tablet and computer all in one. Rumblings of a new Surface phone-like device, under the codename Andromeda, have persisted for years, though the company has yet to confirm such a plan.

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No foldable surfaces in FEDERAL PRISON!

[Anonymous Coward]

SORRY TRUMP TRAITORS!

Re:No foldable surfaces in FEDERAL PRISON!

[Dusanyu]

you you ever get bored posting the same thing to every thread?

Dear "SOROS loser": Newsflash

[Anonymous Coward]

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APK

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Re: Dear "SOROS loser": Newsflash

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you plan on reposting the same fake news in every article? You're an offtopic retard spammer.

Patents don't mean squat

[Joce640k]

Filing a patent doesn't mean they're going to make anything, it just means they might be able to sue Samsung for a lot of money one day.

Re:Patents don't mean squat

[Anonymous Coward]

imho, only the actual 'flexible' lcd display is something should be able to get a patent, not the holder (i.e. the phone/case/whatever)..

we already have hinged devices, some with two screens already. putting a 'flexible' display in there instead **should not be patentable*

Re:Patents don't mean squat

[ShanghaiBill]

Filing a patent doesn't mean they're going to make anything

Indeed. It actually indicates the opposite. If they were really working on it, they would have filed the patents years ago. When you plan a new project, the FIRST thing you do is nail down the IP.

Re: Patents don't mean squat

[Anonymous Coward]

I just do not get how Samsung AND Apple and now MS ...All can get a patent on the same technology?

If both Samsung and Apple has it then shouldnt both be invalid along with the recent application from MS?

Or are they simply sleeping in the patent office and giving away the same patents left and right?

That would atleast somewhat nullify the problem of All the obvious patents already granted this far

Whose up first

[Anonymous Coward]

The lines to sue could soon become quite long ...

http://www.patentlyapple.com/p...
https://gizmodo.com/apple-pate...

There are more even further back.

Re:Whose up first

[alvinrod]

If Microsoft were to receive a patent for their own implementation, it would imply that the patent office believes that it is different from other, existing implementations. Utility patents cover specific implementations, not general ideas. If Apple (or some other company) has a patent using approach ABC, but Microsoft's patent lists using approach XYZ for that aspect, then their implementation would not infringe on that other patent.

Also, most of this stuff never actually sees the light of day because it either doesn't work anywhere near well enough, or because it is prohibitively expensive to manufacture or would require tens or hundreds of millions of dollars invested into production facilities just to be able to make it in the kind of volume that company would need to put a product on the market. Of course if you're going to spend all of that money paying engineers to do the R&D work, you may as well patent it it in case you need it later or someone else is interested in buying or licensing it from you.

Re:Whose up first

[nasch]

Of course if you're going to spend all of that money paying engineers to do the R&D work, you may as well patent it it in case you need it later or someone else is interested in buying or licensing it from you.

Or you would like to be able to keep someone else from doing it.

No foldable surfaces in FEDERAL PRISON!

[Anonymous Coward]

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I'm "faking" MYSELF, SOROS loser?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm "faking" MYSELF, SOROS loser behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts (such 'courage')? I know not per https://hardware.slashdot.org/... which was MY former post to "you & yours" you just replied to - but MORESO your paymasters behind you & "your kind" (who'd sell your children for a SHEKEL)!

* Again - ACCEPT REALITY - you LOST!

APK

P.S.=> ... & you WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE, & that IS truly, that... apk

Re: I'm "faking" MYSELF, SOROS loser?

[Anonymous Coward]

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ALLLLLLL TRUMP TRAITORS ARE FAKEDICKS, YES

[Anonymous Coward]

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"Sure, sure" & let me predict the date

[Anonymous Coward]

"Sure, sure" & let me predict the date - THE 12th of NEVER!

APK

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Re: "Sure, sure" & let me predict the date

[Anonymous Coward]

Great, more bullshit from retard Nazi spammer APK.

Microsoft DS

[Feneric]

From the description given it sounds an awful lot like a Nintendo DS, only benefiting from smaller, more expensive phone components.

People would buy these

[Anonymous Coward]

A better question is "Why arent multiscreen and/or foldable devices on the market yet, hardly."

I shot you down on that too easily liar... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

Do I say hosts cure spectre OR meltdown on the download page for my program where I list facts on what it can do for you @ Start64.com? No.

IF IT DID BELIEVE ME I'd TRUMPET IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS THERE!

c6gunner DOES impersonate me saying that though, proof is his name on the post IMPERSONATING me lying about that https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

* You fools just DO NOT GET IT do you?

APK

P.S.=> Truth is, you DESTROY YOURSELVES, fake news & all - that & your 'talk' but no action doing good things I do helping being of service to others as I possess skills to do so (the right thing & doing the RIGHT thing you can NEVER be wrong) https://it.slashdot.org/commen... but YOU & "your kind" sure are & it SHOWS - thanks for making ME look GREAT & yourselves? UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous "ne'er-do-well" do NOTHING Jealous "Lil' Jowie" WORMS, lol... apk

I'm no Nazi & my use of FACT?

[Anonymous Coward]

I;m no Nazi & my use of FACT? Doesn't make me one either & I cut you to bits, again, as always https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

APK

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Ok, what's fake here?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, what's fake or LIES here? You'd know - "your kind" are the EXPERTS on lying & fake news, lol https://www.infowars.com/trump... ?

APK

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Apple already made and sold a folding iphone

[goombah99]

iphone 6. it wasn't popular so they made the next ones non-folding.

Courier Book

[Anonymous Coward]

So isn't this pretty much their old "Courier" concept, round 2?

Re: Courier Book

[Anonymous Coward]

More like the long-awaited Surface Phone! Cant wait to get one of these. Maybe they will even send them out to loyal Insiders!

Cheers,
Cmdr Taco

Yay, finally the surface phone!

[filesiteguy]

I have only been waiting five years for this to come to light. Of course, teh one app that will still work on windows 10 mobile is probably not useful.

I honestly don't see this happening. I remember the HP Elite X3. I thought it was a great idea to have a mobile phone that coudl double as a computer. However, in reality, I found it less than desirable. it didn't join my domain, had a hard time connecting to domain printers, and required special hardware to hook up.

I am fine with a mobile device in my pocket, which is currently an Iphone XsMax, and a PC at my desk. I have a laptop for when I need mobility, which is rare anymore.