Samsung Vertical Rollable Phone Design Revealed in New Patent Document

Samsung was just lately granted a design patent for a rollable smartphone by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent consists of particulars of the handset’s design, and we will anticipate it to debut as a compact telephone that extends vertically to kind a bigger display. It may very well be outfitted with a twin rear digicam setup that strikes with the higher portion of the smartphone. Other OEMs like Oppo and Motorola are additionally growing ‘sliding’ telephones with extendable or rollable shows, whereas an earlier report advised Samsung might launch a rollable telephone in 2025.

Samsung Rollable Phone Could Feature Two Rear Cameras

A patent doc (by way of DomoAI) granted to Samsung Electronics on April 15 reveals the design of a brand new rollable telephone from Samsung. The firm has been rumoured to be engaged on a handset with a rolling show since 2019, and the patent doc offers us a have a look at what a vertical rollable smartphone from Samsung may appear to be.

Fig 2 and Fig 3 in the design patent exhibits the back and front of the purported vertical rollable telephone. The design exhibits that the handset is likely to be fairly compact whereas it’s folded. We can see the a part of the handset that’s anticipated to increase on the high of the rear panel in figures 4 and 5, and it consists of what seems to be two cameras and an LED flash. 

Fig. 8 exhibits us the design from one other angle. The telephone seems to have slim bezels alongside the highest, left, and proper edges, whereas the chin is significantly massive. It is prone to be thicker than Samsung’s different telephones, as a result of rollable mechanism.

The patent doc does not embody any particulars concerning the smartphone’s specs, however we will speculate that it’s going to arrive as a premium smartphone, just like the Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Z Fold sequence. These telephones are normally outfitted with the identical high-end chip because the Galaxy S sequence lineup that’s launched at the beginning of the yr.

Samsung has already proven off a prototype of its rollable telephone, which extends horizontally. While the corporate might have already discovered the right way to produce a telephone with a rollable show, it stays to be seen whether or not a vertical rollable telephone is commercially viable. As is the case with all patents, it stays to be seen whether or not Samsung launches a industrial model of the gadget seen in the doc.