Microsoft received a patent for a foldable phone that folds outward and inward and doesn’t have a screen crease.
Suppose we told you that there is a sign that Microsoft is working on its first foldable phone. Sorry, but the Surface Duo doesn’t count as a foldable since it was a dual screen phone in reality with an annoying hinge in the middle separating the two individual displays. Back in February 2021, Microsoft filed for a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and was granted the patent on October 1st of this year. Patent US 12,108,620, titled “Foldable Display Device with Backplate Slots”, includes illustrations of a book-style foldable phone like the Galaxy Z Fold 6.
What makes this foldable different from the Galaxy Z Fold 6 or other book-style foldables is that the phone can fold either way (inward and outward) and change into a tablet, a laptop with a virtual QWERTY keyboard, and other variations.
