Samsung Patent Hints at Tri-Fold Phone With two Hings, S Pen Support

Samsung display was recently granted a patent for a tri-fold smartphone that can be folded twice. The company currently offers Single-Fold Flip And Book-Style Foldables, but have couple to launch a competitor to the Huawei Mate Xt Ultimate DesignAccording to a recent report, samsung is developing a new tri-fold foldable phone that is expected to launch in the coming months, ALONGSIDE The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. Foldable design that utilies a separate cover display.

Samsung Tri-Fold Phone Patent Reveals Presence of Three External Cameras

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently granted a patent to samsung display (via 91mobiles) for a device with a tri-fold display. The document contains several images of a device with two hinges, and the three display panels can be unfolded to form a much larger screen.

Like the Huawei Mate Xt Ultimate Design That Arrived Last Year, Samsung’s Latest Patent Shows A Smartphone that Unfolds Horizontally. The document indicates the presence of a horizontally-aligned external camera module (Fig. 10). The Volume Rocker is seen at the top of one of the folding panels (Fig. 13), and there’s a USB type-c port on the bottom edge of the opposite panel (fig. 14).

Images of Samsung’s Tri-Fold Phone from the Patent Document
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The document also sugges that inner display on the tri-fold smartphone will be surrounded by slightly thick bezels. It appears to feature a single camera on the left panel, while the one on the right appears to house an s pen (Fig. 9), which means that it would offer suport for features that requires a stylus.

Samsung has shown off several prototypes for foldable devices With two hinges since 2022But the company has yet to launch a commercial version of these ‘flex g’ and ‘flex s’ foldables. According to a recent ReportThe company could be gearing up to launch its first Tri-Fold Smartphone, that could Arrive as Soon as July.

The rumoured samsung g fold would get into introduce a new design with three panels that fold in the shape of a g, instead of the z-shaped fold on the huawei mate xt Ultimate Design. Samsung’s Tri-Fold Smartphone could feature a separate cover display, as the inner screen of the galaxy g fold would be expertset is folded.

While samsung’s latest patent also describes a phone that also folds in the shape of a g, it is currently unchary with the company the company plans to launch a foldable phone with this design in the future. We can expect to learn more about the company’s first tri-fold smartphone in the coming months, as it is expected to launch-in select markets-AlongSide the Galaxy Z fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7.