Samsung's Latest Patent Shows a Smartphone with Stretchable Display

While we've been busy reporting on Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Fold 2 which is now rumoured to be launching before the Galaxy S11 series in Feb 2020, Samsung information technology 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 a smartphone with a stretchable display with a closed state where the phone will have a regular sized screen, and an open up country where the brandish stretches out to give a wider view for consuming multimedia content like movies and games.

samsungs patent for stretchable display showing open and closed states — Image courtesy: Patently Mobile

To be precise, the patent doesn't actually seem to exist about a 'stretchable' display every bit much as it seems to be a flexible-rollable display. Users will patently be able to curlicue-out the display to make the effective viewing area of the phone larger with a 'curlicue' like gesture on the phone.

The patent likewise 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 estimate the corporeality that the display has been extended by.

image showing sensor on the rear to enable rolling of stretchable display — Paradigm courtesy: Patently Mobile

It goes without saying that this is only a patent at this point, and in that location is no telling if Samsung will ever turn this into a real product. Equally of right now, this seems to just be an idea that people over at Samsung are toying with, and then don't get your hopes upward for a telephone with this design anytime shortly.

Featured image courtesy: Evidently Mobile