Last June, Samsung filed with the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) a patent entitled "Electronic device capable of folding and retracting". Patent recently published and found by the site 91mobiles.
Origami smartphone
The document describes a smartphone whose screen - rollable - can retract inside the device and therefore also extend to offer a higher surface of use. What's more, the screen can also be folded, both when the screen is extended and retracted. A combination of technologies never seen before, even if the interest does not seem obvious at first glance. We imagine, for example, that the fold can form a sort of mini-laptop, with a keyboard on one part of the screen and the main display on the other.
As a reminder, patents do not provide definitive information on the final functionalities of a product, but allow us to give big clues about its design and potential functioning.