It's no secret that Samsung loves to innovate and bring exciting new products to the mobile market. 91Mobiles now reports about another possibility for a Samsung phone to turn heads with wonder: the South Korean company has filed a patent for a phone with an expandable display. Check it out!
Samsung patent for a phone with expandable display
The patent we are talking about was filed at the WIPO (or the World Intellectual Property Organization) and carries the title "Expandable display". As you will see from the illustrations included in the patent, the device's display could expand in more than one direction.
What's even more fun about this possible innovation is that the expansion of the display will allow for content that was not visible on a smaller display to be viewed on the extension of the display.
Additionally, Samsung may decide to use an expandable display for phones, tablets, and TVs or monitors.
But that's not all on the topic of expandable displays by the South Korean firm. Samsung has also published another patent talking about an 'electronic device having expandable display'.
This time, the South Korean company mentions it could be a portable electronic device (like a phone, for example) that has a display that can be drawn out of a housing. This means you would be able to extend a part of the display, and the device should recognize the portion of the display being extended to adjust the content you are viewing. Imagine something like the Oppo X 2021 concept phone.
Illustration from the patent 'Electronic device having expandable display'
Well, it's important to mention that with any patent application, there's no guarantee that such a device will see the light of production and will make it to the lineup of Samsung innovative phones and devices. If it does though, it will be one more cool innovation coming from the company to get us excited about.
You may have heard that some rumors that Samsung may release a third phone alongside the Z Fold 4 and the Z Flip 4 have been circulating the web recently. Some speculations talks about a possible rollable phone (via SamMobile), which could indeed use an expandable display like the described above to be able to stretch out. However, nothing is official yet and there have been no concrete leaks on such a phone, if it exists. All in all, all we need to do is wait patiently to see what happens... or, more like it - be on the lookout for more leaks to come in the following weeks.
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