Samsung: a roll-up screen for the Galaxy S11 Plus?

Good news, Samsung has a lot of ideas! Three months ago, we discovered the sketches of a smartphone with an expandable screen. Objective: To increase the display area by 60% simply by scrolling the screen with your thumb.

Three months later, the details of this "slider" are more precise, and our colleagues Let's Go Digital even went so far as to imagine the design of this unique model. Initially, there are patents filed by Samsung in August, and this time, the project seems more advanced since the display area won seems more realistic with a figure of 25%. We have screen sizes: 5 inches then 6.25 inches when the screen unfolds.

To give an idea, we would go from a smartphone a little larger than an iPhone 7 to a model a little smaller than an iPhone 11 Pro Max. This would obviously be very practical since closed, the smartphone would take the place of a model of old generation while allowing to enjoy a display area almost equal to that of the largest mobile market when you want to browse the Internet or watch videos.

What we also discover is that the photosensors at the back would be operational only when the screen is unfolded. One way to protect the lenses from scratches and other shocks. If the drawings are realistic, the finish looks good and cascading is almost invisible. Our colleagues believe that this could be the Galaxy S11 Plus whose "big brother", the Galaxy S11, is expected by the end of the first quarter of 2020 with a presentation scheduled at the next MWC, the annual mobility fair in February in Barcelona

After Samsung, it's time for Sony to consider launching a smartphone with a slab that unwinds and wraps. Preview as a prototype, this new model could arrive at the end of the year with a 5G connection.

And if Sony was the first manufacturer to launch a smartphone with a roll-up screen? This is what whispers since the Japanese giant would have taken the lead over the competition with a screen, not collapsible as on Samsung's Galaxy Fold and Huawei's Mate X, but rollable.

This is the always well-informed Samsung News account that publishes part of the configuration of the prototype of the new Sony smartphone, and we discover a screen signed LG with the design "Nautilus". Behind this name hides one of the Korean manufacturer's technologies: a flexible, foldable and rollable slab. As LG has more or less dropped in the smartphone sector, its slabs could interest Sony whose Xperia range remains a reference for photo and display quality.

Among the other features of this prototype: a photosensor with an optical zoom x10, a battery of 3.220 mAh and an SM7250 processor signed Qualcomm. The final version would turn to a Snapdragon 855 and an x50 modem synonymous with 5G.

On the side of availability, the Samsung News account evokes December 2019, or even the beginning of the year 2020. Which means that we could see it at the MWC in Barcelona, the biggest exhibition on mobility. Recall that Samsung, sworn enemy of LG, would also have in his boxes a smartphone with a roll-up screen, and three years ago, the brand had demonstrated its home technology.

The Korean manufacturer continues to imagine the smartphone of tomorrow, and he has filed patents for a smartphone whose screen size evolves with a slab system that wraps and unfolds.

After the screen without edges, then the foldable screen, place in the scrollable screen! Samsung, who had a big quack with his Galaxy Fold still not available in the trade, is thinking about the design of a smartphone whose screen could grow. This is currently a patent filing, discovered by Let's Go Digital, and we discover a "slider" of a new kind because by sliding the back of the smartphone, we do not discover a keyboard, but we extend the surface of the screen.

According to the few details present in the patents, it will be possible to enlarge the screen by 60% maximum. This is a mechanism where the screen, flexible, comes to wind inside the phone. Exactly like the shutters of a house. This makes it possible not to cut too much on the space necessary for the other components like the processor, the memory and the photosensors.

For now, it is simply a patent filing, and it will probably take several years for this project to become a reality. But if the flexible and windable screen manages to convince manufacturers, it could result in the return of small smartphones, easy to store, but whose screen could go from 4 to 7 or 8 inches with this system.

Samsung has already filed a patent for a tablet-shaped brick so the screen could unfold to reach 8 inches.