- A Samsung patent has been unearthed detailing a potential foldable smartphone design
- It features a detachable DLSR camera
- Samsung are set to release their first foldable phone this year
Smartphone developers are always filing pie-in-the-sky patents that never see the light of day. Nevertheless, they offer a pretty valuable insight into how and where companies like Apple and Samsung are looking to innovate.
Just take a look at this foldable Samsung hybrid smartphone design that Foldable News discovered last week, featuring a detachable DLSR camera.
The smartphone patent itself is more advanced than the $2000 Galaxy Fold, which Samsung are releasing on 26 April. The company are reportedly working on two other phones with different folding mechanics, as they race to identify and patent the best approach to the tech before Apple and Huawei.
Samsung’s latest patent folds into three parts, and features a mechanism that allows you to attach a circular camera that enables stereoscopic 3D shots. It also features an internal camera, but that can only be used for front-facing photos.
The original application was filed in 2015, and the U.S. patent was granted on 5 March, 2019.
