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Although today the only folding phone on the market is the FlexPai Phone from the Chinese brand Royole Corporation, manufacturers such as Huawei and Samsung continue to perfect their models to launch them in the very near future. Just a few minutes ago Huawei announced that the Mate X will be delayed again to arrive at the end of the year. Now it is Samsung that patents a new folding phone with two folds on the screen whose design could become a reality next year or 2021 at the latest.
This is the new Samsung flexible: one screen, two folds and three formats
Although the registration of a patent does not imply that the product in question will actually be made - at least in the short term future - it is curious to see how brands play with the design of folding phones.
The latest patent registered by Samsung and filtered by LetsGoDigital lets us see a phone whose design is quite different from the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X. As we can see in the original patent, the terminal would have two folds that would divide the screen into three proportional parts, which would allow us to obtain up to three different screen formats.
Three formats that would allow us to have a full tablet and two mobile phones with different ratios, one for consuming panoramic content and the other for productivity. It is unknown if the double fold would allow us to reduce the size of the device in tablet format to have an even smaller screen to give rise to a more compact tablet.
What is certain is that the body can fully stick on itself, in such a way that we could have a complete tablet in the size of a conventional smartphone. Another aspect that the patent leaves in the pipeline has to do with the system used in the folding mechanism, a mechanism that should not be far from the one implemented in the Galaxy Fold.
Be that as it may, time will tell us if Samsung decides to implement a mechanism similar to that of the Galaxy Fold, although as we mentioned at the beginning of the article, the leak is nothing more than a patent, so it is very likely that it will end up being discarded as final product to host more realistic and feasible models.
