New Samsung patent shows it wants to reinvent the tablet

It has long been rumored that Samsung will soon come out with foldable mobile products. We have heard rumors about foldable smartphones and tablets, and have also seen the design patents that Samsung has been awarded for its work. It has now been awarded another design patent which reveals that the company is working on basically reinventing the entire tablet experience. The patent details a tablet design which can be folded like a leather folder when on the move and can be used in one of three ways. It can function as a large tablet, as a mobile desktop and as a notebook when folded.

If Samsung is able to get this out the door it will be a truly revolutionary product which will also help the company shed the incorrect perception that it can only copy revolutionary devices and not make them from scratch. It's not just about the design, though. Significant advancements need to be made in display and battery technology for something like this to work. Samsung has been showing off its bendable display prototypes over the past year so we know it's working on that. Given all its recent battery-related issues, Samsung will certainly be more careful in making a device like this which uses a completely different approach to the battery as compared to conventional tablets.

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Via Tablet Foldable Display patents