---
title: "Samsung Has Filed a Patent for a Futurisitic Smartphone"
description: "Samsung has been granted another patent for a flexible electronic device that can be folded like a flip phone. The device is reminiscent of the mockup phone Samsung showed off for its flexible Youm display back in 2013."
date: "2016-11-11"
modified: "2016-11-29"
authors:
  - name: "Dom Galeon"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/domgaleon"
url: "https://futurism.com/samsung-has-filed-a-patent-for-a-futurisitic-smartphone"
categories:
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "bendable smartphone"
  - "Samsung"
---

# Samsung Has Filed a Patent for a Futurisitic Smartphone

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Samsung-files-patent-for-a-bizarre-folding-smartphone.jpg>)
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Out fascination with bendable smartphones and wearables may actually lead us to the next generation of mobile technology. This Wednesday, the Korean Intellectual Property Office granted [a patent for a flexible electronic device](<http://engpat.kipris.or.kr/engpat/biblioa.do?method=biblioFrame&start=biblio&searchFg=N>) which [Samsung applied for last April](<https://futurism.com/samsungs-folding-smartphone-actually-developed>).

This patent is for a device that can be folded like a flip phone, with an OLED screen that folds midway or fully. Supposedly, the device will have a secondary screen located on the outside, which can activate when the phone is folded shut (like the good'ol [Motorola Razr](<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/05/hello-moto-motorola-denies-return-of-iconic-razr-flip-phone/>)).

Samsung's been toying with the idea of a bendable smartphone ever since it demoed a flexible [YOUM monitor](<https://futurism.com/samsung-files-patents-for-rolling-and-folding-smartphones>) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2013. Samsung has since successfully integrated curved screens into its Galaxy Edge phones, the first steps to a bendable future.

Other tech giants are considering their own versions of this bendable tech, like Lenovo with its [wrap-around-your-wrist phone](<https://futurism.com/check-out-this-bendable-phone-that-you-can-wrap-around-your-wrist>) idea, or the ReFlex phone. Even Apple recently [filed a patent](<https://futurism.com/new-apple-patent-shows-a-bendable-iphone-using-carbon-nanotubes>) for its own flexible tech.

Whatever Samsung has in the works right now should be big enough to recover from the explosive past the [Galaxy Note 7](<http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/7/13558442/samsung-galaxy-note-7-recall-apology-ad>) left behind.

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