Samsung’s Latest Patent Shows a Smartphone with Stretchable Display

While we’ve been busy reporting on Samsung’supcoming Galaxy Fold 2which is now rumoured to belaunching before the Galaxy S11series in February 2020, Samsung it seems has been filing patent after patent for foldable, flexible, and stretchable displays.

A new patent, spotted by Patently Mobile, shows one of Samsung’s ideas about a possible future smartphone. According to drawings seen in the patent filing, Samsung is thinking about asmartphone with a stretchable display with a closed state where the phone will have a regular sized screen, and an open statewhere the display stretches out to give a wider view for consuming multimedia content like movies and games.Image courtesy: Patently Mobile

To be precise, the patent doesn’t really seem to be about a ‘stretchable’ display as much as it seems to be a flexible-rollable display.Users will apparently be able to roll-out the display to make the effective viewing area of the phone largerwith a ‘scroll’ like gesture on the phone.

The patent also shows a module on the back fitted with a sensor that will be able to identify when a user touches the back panel to roll the screen out (or back in), and even judge the amount that the display has been extended by.Image courtesy: Patently Mobile

It goes without saying that this is just a patent at this point, and there is no telling if Samsung will ever turn this into a real product. As of right now, this seems to just be an idea that people over at Samsung are toying with, so don’t get your hopes up for a phone with this design anytime soon.

Featured image courtesy: Patently Mobile

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.

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