Samsung already makes flexible displays, but so far they’ve only appeared in rigid TVs and curved Galaxy Edge phones, as engineers puzzle over how hard and flat internals, like the battery and circuit boards, could be reimagined to support a foldable design.
A newly-revealed Samsung patent doesn’t quite offer a solution to the rigid component problem, but shows that the Korean electronics giant is still keen on figuring a way around it, in order to deliver a bendable phone that could leap ahead of the current edge-to-edge display trend.
