Looking at the concept image of the foldable iPhone at the top of this article, it comes to mind the first time I saw a nokia communicator. It was worn by my marketing professor, back in the nineties, and she was a real waver. Very impractical, but it was really cool.
It seems that sooner or later Apple will bring out its foldable iPhone. Perhaps you will wait to see how the market behaves with the current folding smartphones of the competition, to take the step or not. Just in case, you just won a patent for a self-healing folding screen….
Moment We do not know if finally Apple will release a foldable iPhone. It is possible that today they do not even know it themselves. It must be a huge headache to design and manufacture a folding smartphone.
Apple may wait to see user response to the first folding smartphones on the market. Depending on their success, they will have no choice but to wrap the blanket around their heads and prepare a iPhone "Fold".
Just in case, Apple just won a patent on a foldable and self-repairing smartphone screen at once. You want to prevent dust or debris on the screen from damaging it by folding one part against the other.
The patent explains that would use heat to make the surface layer of the screen "soften". Either at the time of folding, as during the loading period. Once cold, it would be hard and with the possible scratch or mark repaired. It certainly looks like something out of a James Bond movie.
We will see if one day Apple decides to launch a foldable iPhone. If this happens, and knowing the prices that the company is considering, it will be a very expensive and exclusive iPhone for Tim Cook, Wozniak, Russian mobsters, soccer players and Spanish politicians.