iRaise, iFold - Patent points to DUAL folding iPhone

[rcmaehl]

Source:
Tom's Guide

 

Summary

Apple seems to want to 1-up the folding phone competition with a DUAL fold

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Apple’s foldable phone patents keep piling up...At this point we can easily assume that Apple will release a foldable phone, just like everyone else. The new patent describes a device that can be folded not once but two times. Mixed use of flexible material covering for the flexible part on the hinge and hard glass-like parts for the flat sides of the display. The patent doesn’t discuss if this is for a phone, a tablet, or both. The Cupertino company got awarded a patent for a flexible battery in March 2018...a...patent for a magnetic latch that would keep the phone closed without any physical mechanism, [and] a Motorola Razr-like vertical foldable phone. So perhaps the question now is not if Apple will release such device but when. 

 

My Thoughts:
When it comes to the folding device war, I think the old flip phone-esque designs are going to win out. I'm unsure where Apple's phone stands design wise, but inwards folding phones provide more case coverage. It will be interesting to see the upcoming foldable phone designs.

[givingtnt]

iDon'tCareForFoldingPhones

[rcmaehl]

1 minute ago, givingtnt said:

iDon'tCareForFoldingPhones

#SpacebarLivesMatter

[TrigrH]

double bendgate

 

[bleedblue]

Oh god why

[FPSwithaWacomTablet]

I might as well make an iScroll...

 

A phone that rolls up instead of folding.

[Fnige]

...hehe...

 

_{Im trying to be kind here... while putting this out, If your offended, im truly sorry}

[vanished]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Incidentally, I think dual folds are the way forward when it comes to folding phones.  That said I'm not sure they're really ready or necessary at this point at all, but if you're gonna have one, this is how.

[Results45]

Maybe relevant?

 

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[TempestCatto]

But will it have USB C?

 

We know headphone jacks are out of the question now.

[lewdicrous]

How courageous..

[justpoet]

Lots of patents are filed for products that never go to market for various reasons.

 

The design looks like my wallet.  Considering the push by everybody to replace your wallet with your phone, I can see this being a "hey, that'd be cool to fit where my wallet does" design inspiration…and quite frankly, large phones are one of the major reasons I won't get a modern phone…doesn't comfortably fit in a pocket anymore.  If it can be done without compromising durability, this would be pretty cool.  I don't think that time is reasonably soon, but I expect it will eventually happen, if holographics/AR don't find better ways to do large personal displays sooner.

[mr moose]

2 hours ago, bleedblue said:

Oh god why

So they can sue Samsung again. 

[BleachedFur]

3 hours ago, givingtnt said:

iDon'tCareForFoldingPhones

nobody should give a shit about folding phones. I thought we were past that.

[mr moose]

9 minutes ago, BleachedFur said:

nobody should give a shit about folding phones. I thought we were past that.

I don't understand this ideology,  why shouldn't people be interested in them?  The concept is great and if they can manage to make a more robust one I'd certainly be interested. I hate big phones.

[Guest]

I’m going to say it now, this phone will be very THICK.

[Sparviero]

I'm holding out for the roll out phone from sci-fi land. 

 

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[williamcll]

The real iBook.

[hobobobo]

This is goind to be THE folding phone, considering apples vast expirience with flexible aluminum and glass. A few years ago i would even say this unironicly, despite my spite towards apple

[CTR640]

People who really wants one: #SacrificingMyBothKidneysAndChildrenToAffordOne

[SADS]

I just can't see them being durable enough.

A folding phone just seems like a gimmick to me, what's the actual benefit?

My current phone certainly has enough screen space, i don't need a longer screen, especially when i can't reach from top to bottom with one hand as it is. (ahem stupid iphone draw being top right of the screen and home key at the bottom)

 

Can't they give us more battery power first?

[soldier_ph]

Weird Flex but Ok

 

#FlexandBendgatereturns

[GoldenLag]

2 folds seems to me a bit too cumbersome for a small device. 

 

If its something you are going to use a lot. Flipping it once is enough

[rcmaehl]

4 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

2 folds seems to me a bit too cumbersome for a small device. 

 

If its something you are going to use a lot. Flipping it once is enough

I think Apple is trying to avoid a Center crease similar to the fold. Would you take a crease (between each of the three open apps) that you wouldn't touch as much, or a single crease in the middle of the screen.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Everyone seems to forget that Apple were the first ones to actually put a folding phone into production (the iPhone 6 and 6+).  So of course they want to be the first to make one that folds in 2 places.