Will we ever get that foldable iPhone?
, describes the concept of electronic devices, including foldable devices, with touch sensitive control areas on their entire surface. Every surface could be a touch input, including the back and the side walls. The application notes that"It can be challenging to gather touch input from a user and to display images for a user efficiently. For example, when a user supplies touch input to a touch screen display, the user's hand may block images".
Touch sensor layers could be"overlapped" by a device’s outer glass panels on every side, including curved sidewalls. The application also mentions"wrapping a display around some or all of device." Touch sensors on the back of a device might sound strange, but Apple suggests they could have"gaming applications".
For a foldable, the patent states that the same touchability could be achieved with a clamshell design employing an “elastomeric material” allowing the device to bend. Transparent touch sensors would again be present on the device walls, while an"enclosure" would allow the device"to be folded one or more times along one or more fold axes."
Now, a phone that can be folded more than once and receive touch input on every surface sounds like a radical departure in phone design, and it could be welcomed amid complaints the phones haven't changed in years. I'm not quite sure why we'd want to fold a phone more than once, but I'll go with it for now. The patent also follows the direction that Apple's already been moving in with the iPhone by removing buttons.
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