Samsung may also have solved the subsequent massive trouble facing foldable telephones

Samsung has been creating a large push into curved displays and it looks like it's paying off, as the enterprise is notion to be ditching flat displays altogether for the Galaxy word 7.

however curves are just the begin - the next step is bendy, foldable screens, and a brand new pair of patents could deliver the organization one step towards making them a reality.

one of the huge demanding situations of a foldable cellphone isn't always making the display itself fold – prototypes with foldable monitors have existed for years – but making it fold without adverse any additives. those patents cope with precisely that.

Dug up by means of ETnews, the first patent describes an "synthetic muscle", taking the shape of a fixed of connected plates, which could pass in time with the display screen bending and lightly moving to guard any components that could in any other case be broken.

A cellphone of two halves

the second one patent is for a flexible display separated into a pinnacle and bottom segment, which will be folded inside the middle the use of the artificial muscle in the be a part of among them to allow it to fold.

it's reminiscent of some other folding telephone patent we currently noticed from Samsung, so it's clear the business enterprise is placing a substantial quantity of notion into the concept.

With the problem of broken components doubtlessly solved we would begin seeing telephones like this earlier than lengthy.

In truth, it's already been rumored that Samsung plans to launch  folding telephones next 12 months. Will the Samsung Galaxy S8 be certainly one of them?