As other leading smartphone makers are perfecting devices with vertically or horizontally folding screens, recently published patent information suggests Cupertino might take a different route. A patent.
In brief: Apple’s next iPhone is roughly two months away and is expected to be more of the same in terms of overall design, but that doesn’t mean the company isn’t considering alternative form factors for future handsets.
As other leading smartphone makers are perfecting devices with vertically or horizontally folding screens, recently published patent information suggests Cupertino might take a different route. A patent for «electronic devices with rollable displays» filed last October and published on July 13 references a device with a display that could be moved between an unrolled state where it is planar and a rolled state for storage.
