Samsung imagines a wraparound smartphone display Engadget

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If that whole folding smartphone component doesn't work out, Samsung has lot of different ideas cooking. It lately obtained patent popularity of a non-stop show that covers the front, whilst folding across the top and a part of the rear of the smartphone, as spotted by way of Let's Go Digital. That could make for some interesting programs, like letting topics see how they appearance earlier than you are taking a image or showing live language translations on the rear display.

You ought to activate which part of the continuous show (front or returned) to apply by using soaring your hand or a stylus S Pen over it. Rather than being stuck with a simple digicam, you'd use the advanced rear digicam for selfies thanks to the rear show. The language translation part is a particularly thrilling concept, as it'd permit every birthday party communicate even as the other sees the translation -- all without the need to flip the screen round.

Because it folds across the tool, there may also be a display on the pinnacle that indicates notifications, messages and so forth. That way, it can function like a glorified pager, letting you spot messages without even casting off the phone from your pocket. If you desired to answer, you can truely pull out the cellphone drag the message from the pinnacle to the the front display.

Samsung is virtually a bit late to this celebration, because the recently launched Vivo NEX Dual Display phone already has a rear screen, even though it makes use of two separate displays, not a continuous one. Vivo has even superior the posing feature quite a ways, introducing a Pose Director that could deliver your challenge pose hints from an picture library.

However, the translation app is an thrilling idea, and a phone like this could appearance pretty cool way to the seamless show that wraps across the pinnacle. There's a hazard we would see something like this, however don't guess any cash on it -- patents often grow to be duds.

Via: Let's Go Digital

Source: WIPO

In this article: Camera, DualScreen, gear, LiveTranslation, mobile, Patent, RearDisplay, samsung, Translation, USPTO, WIPO

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