As far back as 2013, we’ve been hearing about the possibility of foldable devices – Samsung adamantly claimed in November 2013 that there would be foldable devices in 2015. Now that we’re in the tail end of 2015, that eventuality is seeming less and less likely with every month, however that hasn’t stopped Samsung filing more patents to flesh out such a device. A new patent that was submitted in February 2015 has just come up, and unlike Samsung’s previous patent descriptions that were relatively vague, this one describes the very detailed intricacies of the foldable device hinge and how it all goes together. Check out a few of the figures provided by Patently Mobile:
It’s a wonderfully complicated design, but it’s probably the closest we’ve seen to something that could actually be a marketable product at some point. We’ve heard that Samsung has had a foldable device called Project Valley in development for quite some time now, but since that story we’ve had very little indication that Samsung has continued working on the device. Even so, we’re holding out hope that Samsung’s still in the mood for some pretty extravagant innovation and ends up releasing a foldable device in the near future.
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Source: Patently Mobile via SamMobile
