Samsung patents a foldable tablet design with three folds

Last week, Samsung finally unveiled a preview version of its folding screen called Infinity Flex, with the first device sporting that screen slated to launch early next year at a price of $ 1, 770. We now know that the company is also working on a folding tablet with a three-fold design.

Samsung thinks of a folding tablet in three parts

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Samsung a patent for a foldable tablet design. According to the patent document, obtained by the Dutch technology news site Mobiel kopen, Samsung filed the application in June 2016. The folding device you are imagining features a large screen, the folding mechanism of which is mainly based on two hinges that divide it into three sections. The left-most part of the screen can also be folded behind the rest, to make the device smaller, and easy to grip with one hand. However, this renders that part of the screen inactive.

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Other than the front, side, and rear perspective views of the folding tablet, there's not much to see in the document. There is also no certainty whether this concept will make it into production. The latest patent highlights Samsung's growing confidence in folding devices, as the next big thing in the mobile race.

A tablet with this design could be the most interesting, and the revolution that is needed for these devices to become so popular again, as when talking about the post PC era, something that has finally not been fulfilled, and tablets sell less every year that passes.

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