If a fold is good, two folds are better. That seems to be the thinking of Samsung’s R&D department, where engineers are reportedly working hard on a Galaxy Fold series double-hinged phone. According to a Nikkei business report, Samsung is studying a double-hinged design, with the hope of revealing it before the end of 2021. This adds to the new iterations of existing Samsung folding designs, the great Galaxy Z Fold and the Galaxy Z Flip clamshell.
Patents already granted to Samsung, showing a larger foldable phone with a folded position in three layers, would probably be the basis of this work. According to the report, Samsung is seeing foldables as the new exploitable market for former buyers of its next-generation Galaxy Note series, which has long been rumored to be blocking by sharing too much market space with the Galaxy S. Samsung premium. told investors that he is not planning to launch the Note for this year.
Note: the image above is a Fast and dirty Photoshop illustration. There are no leaked images of the double hinge design.
Nikkei cites several anonymous sources from within Samsung and the largest South Korean mobile industry. The goal appears to be to create a larger tablet-sized device when fully expanded, with an approximately 16: 9 aspect ratio, ideal for most video content and requiring less specialized work from application developers. The Galaxy Z Fold series uses more square folding screens, greatly expanding the space, but being less ideal for some videos and games.
Since all the information presented in the report is anonymous and, nevertheless, based on the success of ongoing internal development programs, it is possible that none of this will happen. But Samsung would not be the first company to create a triple folding screen, only the first to bring it to the mass market. This device would almost certainly be the company’s flagship model, a status symbol with the corresponding price tag.
