Apparently, OnePlus is working on a foldable smartphone that will not look like anything seen so far.
Patents disclosed online suggest that the brand is working on a folding model with three screens and two hinges.
OnePlus folding smartphone with exclusive three-screen design
A patent discovered by the Let’s Go Digital website shows that OnePlus is working on a foldable smartphone model. But if the model designed in the patent is confirmed, the brand could revolutionize the market for this type of equipment, thanks to a unique feature.
All because the patent shows a folding smartphone with two hinges and three screens. As we can see from the patent design, when unfolded, the OnePlus smartphone provides the user with three screens, and the two hinges mentioned above connect them.
None of the folding models presented to date has a design like this, nor is there news that no other brand is developing a project of this type.
The information about the existence of this project gains even more force with the news spread by the 91Mobiles website that reveals that the patent documentation will have already been updated in the database of the WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization.
The two-hinge design of the OnePlus folding smartphone allows the model to have multiple shapes
The triple screen design of the OnePlus folding smartphone, apart from being unique in the market, also has enormous potential. All because the two integrated hinges will allow the user to provide the equipment with a series of different formats. But on the other hand, it also raises some challenges, first of all, how this format works in practical terms.
But challenges aside, this is a unique design that can allow for a screen size never seen before on a foldable smartphone and built into a device that, when folded, can be easily carried.
There are several smartphone brands that are working on their own replacement models, and Samsung has the leading share of this market with the Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Flip.
And, for all the news released this last quarter, everything indicates that 2022 will be the year of folding smartphones, due to the boom expected for these models. It should be remembered that the previously published news announced that Samsung intends to produce 2.9 million units of the future model Galaxy Z Fold 4 and an extraordinary 6.9 million Galaxy Z Flip 4 smartphones.
