Drawings of a foldable system leaked online
Samsung is one of the few smartphone makers to experiment with the shape of its phone. Last year at IFA 2014, the Korean tech giant surprised everyone when it introduced the Galaxy Note Edge, a phone that features an additional curved edge to its display.
Well, this year, Samsung is likely to do it again – revolutionizing the way we think a smartphone should look. We've been talking about the company's Project Valley (or Project V) for quite some time now. It's Samsung's foldable smartphone, which will debut to the public as soon as January 2016.
While some of the device's features have already leaked online, we still have no idea what the phone will look like and how the folding mechanism will work.
Nevertheless, the guys at Patently Mobile have discovered a patent that could reveal how Samsung is handling the folding problem.
Project Valley might look something like this
According to the patent, the company has developed a new “hinge system” that will hold the parts of the foldable screen together. The two parts will be joined together by a mesh-like material that will act as a hinge. Folding the screen will also create a hollow in the middle (which may explain the name Project Valley).
Previous information leads us to believe that Samsung is currently considering two versions of the foldable smartphone, one with a Snapdragon 620 inside and the other with a Snapdragon 820 chip under the hood.
Both models will have 3GB of RAM and a microSD card slot for further storage. Additionally, the unannounced device will feature a non-removable battery under the hood. You may recall that Samsung is said to be testing the Snapdragon 820 for the Galaxy S7, which is expected to debut in late February 2016.
So, if the recent rumors are true, that means Samsung's foldable smartphone will be released a month earlier. However, just today we told you that the first devices to feature the Snapdragon 820 will be released in Q1 2016.
January seems like a long time away, so we shouldn't take all this information about the foldable handset so seriously until we hear it from a more reliable source.
