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Apple may be late for the folding phone game, but the company has apparently not given up on the concept.
According to the Taiwanese outlet Economic Daily News (via MacRumors), two different folding phone prototypes have passed internal durability tests at Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China.
The report claims that one of the devices is a vertically foldable phone, similar to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip. The other is a dual-screen phone with two screens connected by a hinge.
The idea of Apple making a foldable or dual-screen device is not new; The company received a patent for such a phone in 2017, and a report in 2018 said that Apple might be preparing to launch a foldable phone in 2020. That never happened, but 2020 was a very unusual year, with the Covid pandemic -19. ruining Apple’s phone launch schedule and impacting sales.
And leaker Jon Prosser talked about a dual-screen iPhone with display panels connected with a hinge in June. He said that while the phone screens are separate, they appear “fairly seamless and seamless” when stretched out. A new patent, granted to Apple last week, describes a device with a folding screen, where the “first and second portions of the housing of an electronic device for the device can be joined by a hinge.”
Apple is certainly considering a dual-screen phone, as seen in a recent patent.
The new report says that it is too early to say when Apple will launch either of these two folding models, although it does mention speculation that it will happen in late 2022 or 2023.
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