Apple flips out with clamshell iPhone patent
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#22P3F)
Apple patents way to use an OLED screen to enable a folding iPhone that flips in half like it's 1999 all over again
It's time to party like it's 1999: Apple has patented a flip-phone.
Admittedly, the phone depicted in the patent, spotted by AppleInsider, is rather more advanced than 2004's Motorola Razr. The patent envisages a phone with a flexible OLED screen on the front, designed to fold in the middle with a more conventionally hinged back, allowing the whole thing to fold in half for portability.
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