South Korean technology giant Samsung sees foldable smartphones as the “future”. Samsung said foldable smartphones will be the smartphone form factor of the future at every opportunity since 2018: Milky Way Z Although the series has not yet become mainstream phone models, it has managed to gain significant popularity.

It seems that Samsung plans to improve foldable smartphones not only in terms of durability and functionality, but also in terms of form factor. The tech giant, which received a new patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), exhibited at MWC last year. “rollable” screen It may be planning to bring its technology to its existing foldable screen phones.

Samsung could add rollable screens to foldable phones

The patent image you see above shows Samsung’s new plans for foldable smartphones. As you know, the Galaxy Z Fold series offers an “almost” normal smartphone experience when folded, and when opened it is a device that you can do many things with at the same time. turns into a tablet. The new patent allows one corner of this tablet screen to be extended and made larger thanks to the rollable screen.

If Samsung applies its patent to a real phone, we could see such a concept

The rollable screen also disables some key features of the Galaxy Z Fold. At least according to the patent image, Samsung has created a design to fit the rollable screen into the body. relinquished the opacity screen resembling. Because when the device is folded, no usable screen is visible. The good news is that the rollable screen can be opened while the device is folded.

Roll-up screen versus cover screen

The only way you can use the Galaxy Z Fold one-handed “like a normal smartphone” is with the cover screen. The cover screen is being replaced by a larger tablet screen, the Galaxy Z Fold A folding ‘tablet’ instead of a phone with a folding screen makes it happen. How many Galaxy Z Fold users would give up the cover screen in exchange for a rollable screen? We leave the answer to you…