Apple's foldable iPhone could have a strange flip phone form factor

Apple's foldable iPhone could have a strange flip telephone course factor

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Apple has been granted a patent that presents an iPhone with a foldable form gene, but it describes a flip phone that supports concrete buttons. That doesn't sound very Apple tree to us.

Every bit seen on Patently Apple, the US Patent & Trademark Office granted a patent to Apple, which it originally practical for back in 2022. It shows a clamshell flip phone design, except dissimilar the recent foldable iPhone rumours, it describes "various types of physical buttons." Kicking information technology old school, are we?

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Patents ordinarily never represent the last product, and so we're not certain what Apple may be mocking upwardly. Although, the patent also states the use of touch sensors and strength-sensitive displays, forth with swipe gestures and touch inputs.

The patent also shows the different materials and 'Air-Permeable Construction' that would exist suitable, then it may be taking certain pattern features from the flip phone form gene to create something a bit more than, well, Apple.

Rumours have been swirling that Apple is making ii iPhone foldables; 1 with one large continuous screen in the same vein as the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip; and another with dual-screens like the Microsoft Duo. The recently granted patent is pointing toward more than of a Samsung Milky way Z Flip type design with concrete buttons possibly being at the side.

Apple's foldable iPhone may non arrive for a couple more years, although Samsung Display could at present be working with Apple by offerings its foldable display engineering.

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