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Samsung's third Trifold smartphone patent published in the last 60 days covers different folding angles & controlling its multiple cameras

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In early September 2024, Huawei shocked Samsung with the world's first double fold (known as a trifold) smartphone.

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It was shocking because Samsung had many trifold patents on record for such a device. Our Patently Mobile blog(then called Patent Bolt) covered one of their earlier trifold patents dating back to 2014. A few patent figures from that patent are presented below.

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Since November 2024 until January 2025 Patently Apple (under Patently Mobile) has covered two additional Samsung Patents on a future trifold smartphone (01 and 02). A rumor report that surfaced on January 13, 2025 claimed that Samsung could introduce such a competing phone later this year.

On January 23, 2025, Patently Apple discovered a new trifold patent from Samsung that was published in Europe. The sudden pace of trifold patents applications in the last three months would certainly suggest that Samsung is preparing to counter Huawei' Mate XT trifold.  

Samsung's patent FIG. 1 below illustrates one embodiment of an electronic device including a plurality of cameras; FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a user interface (UI) displayed by an electronic device that displays an image using one of a plurality of cameras.


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Samsung's patent FIGS. 8 and 9 above illustrate different states of the electronic device.           

Although the focus of the patent is on a smartphone, Samsung states at one point that the invention could also apply to other devices such as a personal computer, Laptop or desktop, and a tablet.

Samsung's technical patent WO2 – 02501- 8576 focuses on a trifold smartphone that provides controlling cameras having different aspect ratios.  

While Apple has dozens of foldable device patents on record, a 2016 patent illustrated a trifold option as noted below. Apple won their second granted patent for this two years ago.  

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