Just a few days ago, Apple’s main fighter announced on Bloomberg that the Cupertino-based company he was working on his first foldable phone. This, which had been talked about for some time, seemed unreal. However, Apple will not allow competitors like Samsung to take the throne of this category of devices so quickly.
At the moment, Apple only works with screen prototypes for this type of product. Nothing functional has yet been produced, there aren’t even any concrete plans to launch a device with this technology. However, the fact that this has been confirmed is already a real indicator of what the future may hold for the iPhone.
As part of this news, the community has started digging through Apple’s patent files for something that can move forward. how could this possible product be. And one of the fundamental elements was among the documents registered by the company. Specifically, a hinge design.
As you can imagine, a foldable phone it’s nothing without a good hinge system which allows the user to open and close it safely. This must be durable, so that it can withstand continuous use by the user. And that is precisely what they are trying to achieve with the design they have come up with and shared in iDownloadBlog.
However, it doesn’t end there. Besides being a hinge for a foldable phone, it is also would work for devices like smart rings. Thanks to this hinge, they could be easily adapted to the user’s fingers without being uncomfortable.
According to Apple’s own document, the great advantage of this type of hinge it would be in the materials used for its construction, a compound of fibers that would reduce their size. Of course, at the moment we don’t know if they’ll take up space in a product, so we’re not setting our expectations too high.
