There are increasing rumors about possible models of foldable iPhones that will be released in the near future. Surely the company is working on the issue, and already has its first prototypes on a table in Apple Park.
It has just been leaked on a Taiwanese website that two of these prototypes have passed the durability tests required by Apple for such a device to be marketable. Let's see what has leaked from these foldable iPhones.
According to Economic Daily News, two prototypes of foldable iPhones this week passed the internal durability tests required by the Cupertino company for these devices to be marketed.
Said tests of an Apple-designed folding hinge system for two different iPhones were completed a few days ago at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China.
A prototype with two separate screens
The article states that the first foldable iPhone to undergo such endurance tests is a dual screen model, presumably the same dual-screen prototype rumored by Jon Prosser in June 2020.
Prosser explained at the time that this model used two separate display panels connected by a hinge. Although the iPhone prototype has two separate screens joined by a hinge, Prosser claimed that the panels looked "pretty seamless and seamless."
It should also be noted that Apple has patented a device with two screens separate that can be joined together to create a single folding device with a hinge, which sounds strikingly similar to Apple's rumored dual-screen folding device.
Another "shell" style
The second prototype is "shell" style.
The second prototype that has been tested is reportedly a folding shell, very similar to the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip or Lenovo's Moto RAZR. The UDN report claims that this clamshell model is configured to use a Samsung OLED flexible display.
Previous reports have also said that Apple ordered a "large number" of folding mobile phone display samples Samsung for testing purposes in early 2020.
It is unclear if the two devices that were tested had different hinge systems. The test units are assumed to be housings with a very limited interior rather than fully functional devices. This is because the main purpose of the test was to evaluate the durability of the Apple-designed hinge system.
The report assures that the tests have already concluded, and now they are waiting for Apple to evaluate which of the two folding models will be chosen, since only one will continue in the design process, and the other will be discarded.
Even if a role model is chosen to follow the project, it may Apple is waiting to see how the market reacts against the first folding smartphones of the competition that are already on the street.
If it is a product that has not just started (especially due to its high price), Apple may stop the project and the chosen prototype It went from being on the table, to being stored in a drawer.