Microsoft already has plans to create the smartphone of the future and these patents prove it

Microsoft's situation in the current telephony landscape is not going through its best moments. What's more, we could say that for quite some time now the company has been immersed in a race against time to try to get out of the results crisis but it is not successful, above all because does not have releases in the form of phones.

We are talking about launches of the Redmond brand, because in terms of third-party manufacturers we find few but interesting proposals. And Microsoft's quietness when it comes to the mobile landscape doesn't mean they're sitting idly by.On the contrary, they are planning for the future of this type of device and these patents confirm it.

Microsoft is investigating which are the most propitious ways to develop future releases and in this sense it has a series of pillars on which could build their future proposals. Flexible screens and a design that seems impossible but is nevertheless not new to Microsoft are some of these proposals.

Flexible screens

Who said curved screens? At Microsoft they go further and directly bet on a folding _smartphone_ that we can close as if from a book it was treated A concept that already has a name, FOLED, acronym for Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode and that is by no means new, although it delves deeper into the concept of flexibility that we have seen from other manufacturers.

A patent that, although it has its main application in mobile phones, could be extended to other products such as tablets or laptops so that a screen it could acquire a new angle that would allow a better vision to work or in our leisure time.

A for the foldable smartphone

This time the premise is similar to the previous one but it is not exactly the same. They are more than flexible, folding screens. An idea with which Microsoft seeks that with less space we can have more screen surface by folding one area over the other.

It would be like this a kind of all-screen device with the same functions in both areas and that many, at least the most Old locals, you can remember those Nintendo machines, the famous Game Watch that stole so many hours from us.

Reinventing the circle… I mean the square

We are used to thinking of the _smartphone_ with more or less classic shapes, especially since the arrival of the iPhone. Yes, some manufacturers want to sell the motorcycle of revolution in the forms (case of Samsung and the Galaxy S8 or LG and its G6) but the truth is that all maintain the same basic lines

And this is not what we see in this patent from Microsoft that bets on shapes, dimensions rarely seen And yes, It is true that they are not original, because for that Nokia was already there with the 7705, the Alcatel OT-808, the Siemens Xelibri or the defenestrated Microsoft Kin, but it is striking that from Redmond they think that they can be well received.

A patent that under a square shape hides two sliding screen alternatives, either rotating around a point or in the _slider_ style that already we saw for example in the Nokia N95.

Whether these screens will eventually come to fruition or not is something we don't know, since in many cases the launch of patents is directed more than to future developments, to prevent other manufacturers from getting ahead of the idea And it is that seen what has been seen _Which of these possible patents do you think would have the best future in the current market?_

Via | PatentlyMobile