The Seoul, South Korea-based company has patented a
smartphone with a super flexible touchscreen that looks flat and
seamless but would be able to fold in half, either inward or outward,
much like the two flaps of a wallet. Just imagine folding your iPhone in
half.
According to images filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month and first obtained by Business Insider, the phone could look a lot like the ubiquitous clamshell phones of the early 2000s.
It's unclear whether Samsung will actually pursue this
foldable design or whether it would ever release similar flip phones in
the U.S. However, the company has experimented in recent years with
innovative phone designs, including its curved Galaxy phone and its somewhat bendable Galaxy Note Edge.
But in the flip realm, a version of Samsung's flip phone is slated
to go on sale in Korea sometime in August. Called the Galaxy Folder,
the smartphone will have all the modern functionality we've come to
expect from our smartphones, but look a lot like the phones gathering
dust in our dresser drawers.
"The folding-style design combined with smartphone features,
including the Internet, messenger and social networking services, will
add to the device's convenience," Samsung said in a statement, according
to Reviewed.com.
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