LG patent filing shows foldable phone designs

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ZTE soon released a foldable smartphone in the Axon M, and Samsung has told which it's planning to launch its own foldable smartphone in 2019. Now it looks like LG probably getting into the foldable smartphone game, too. LG has filed for a patent related to a foldable smartphone with a flexible display. The patent shows 2 different designs for this foldable device. It's Mysterious if we'll ever in reality see a foldable smartphone from LG, however these patents review which the firm is at least thinking about such a device.

Can Samsung, ZTE lead the foldable phone revolution?

Smartphones with foldable displays are either a waste of time or the following breakthrough in handsets. It includes a hinge and does not have a true foldable display, however Cheng believes the design going to inspire a new wave of phones. But user electronics heavy hitter Samsung lent this idea some weigh in September the time its mobile chief, DJ Koh, told he wished to launch a foldable smartphone this year. Sarah Tew/CNETOne other company, that for competitive reasons didn't need to be named, is working on a foldable phone, however that device wouldn't appear this year. George Zhao, president of Huawei smartphone unit Honor, told foldable displays and multiple screens are concepts the firm plays with in R&D.

Patent reminds us LG is working on a foldable phone too

as mentioned in But Samsung isn't the only firm emerging a folding smartphone with a flexible display. LG has been working on 1 for just as long (I think), although LG's efforts haven't grabbed as many headlines. A recent patent proposes that LG is continue working on its folding smartphone though. The patent, that was filed final summer and published final 7 days with the World Intellectual Property Administration (WIPO), describes a folding smartphone with a flexible display. But it's Mysterious if the smartphone LG eventually releases going to look anything like the drawings shown in this patent application.