[Mobile China News] Let's boldly imagine what the future iPhone will look like? In Apple's new approved patent, it seems that one of the directions of Apple's future design can be seen. Recently, Mobile China learned that, according to the list published by the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office, Apple has obtained a patent titled "Electronic Device with Flexible Display Structure", which can be slowly unfolded like a scroll. In the patent description, Apple wrote that in the position where the screen is stored, the flexible screen can be stored around the rollers. When the screen is pulled out of the casing, the rollers can be unfolded using the auxiliary setting to unfold the screen.
iPhone
From the sketches, it can be found that when not in use, half of the screen of this phone will be bent inside the fuselage, and it can be controlled by software to be in the off-screen state, so as not to waste power. When the user needs to use it, the entire screen can be pulled out directly, and the area is about twice that of the scroll state, which is more convenient to use than the folding screen mobile phone. At present, the technology is only in the patent stage, and it is uncertain whether it will be applied to the iPhone in the future.
Apple's new patent
In addition to Apple, Lenovo showed a scroll laptop last year. The computer screen can be freely switched between 12 inches and 15 inches, which is convenient for users to handle different tasks. The appearance is very cool. In addition, Motorola, a subsidiary of Lenovo, has also launched a scroll mobile phone. The appearance design is almost exactly the same as the scroll iPhone patent. It also adopts the up and down scroll scheme, and the screen can be freely switched between 5 inches and 6.5 inches. For the sake of protecting the mechanical structure, it takes about three seconds to fully unfold, with a thickness of more than one centimeter and a weight of 210 grams.
Lenovo Scroll Laptop
In addition to the new patent announced this time, Mobile China has learned that Apple has previously announced a patent for a folding screen mobile phone, which can realize self-healing of the crease area. According to foreign media reports, Apple is working on a method that uses heat, light, electricity, or other types of methods to allow creases to heal themselves. With this technology, the risk of accidentally damaging the folding screen will be greatly reduced.
It is worth mentioning that not long ago, Google released the Pixel Fold folding screen mobile phone, which means that among mainstream mobile phone manufacturers, Apple is the only one that has not launched a foldable screen mobile phone. However, there are recent rumors that Apple's foldable screen mobile phone iPhone Fold may be launched this year.
