Samsung Gets Patents For A Rollable Smartphone

Samsung has been granted a patent for a rollable smartphone. The company has been working on scrollable displays since 2015. Earlier last week, the U.S. Patents office published a report granting Samsung patents for a future smartphone with a scrollable display.

Samsung’s Display division is a pioneer in the industry. The company was one of the first to introduce Super AMOLED display technology. Not just that, It was Samsung who first commercially released a successful Foldable smartphone. Now the company is working on a rollable smartphone.

Samsung Rollable Smartphone

Samsung has also confirmed that they have been working on a Quantum Dot OLED Panel. The panel will be used in devices with a rollable/scrollable display. It is good news for Samsung as well as Apple fans, as Samsung is likely to make displays for the foldable iPhone .

Apple has several patents for future devices with scrollable displays. If Samsung can commercialize rollable displays, Apple will be among the first companies to release devices with a scrollable screens.

Samsung is not the only company working on rollable. Earlier in November 2020, Chinese smartphone maker Oppo announced the world’s first viable scrollable display smartphone. After almost a year of waiting, Oppo came up with Find N.

It was a foldable smartphone, not a rollable one. It is unclear what’s gone wrong in developing the Oppo rollable smartphone. Whether it was the display breaking or Samsung made a deal with Oppo not to create a rollable smartphone.

Now when Samsung has received a patent for rollable displays. We might see a commercial rollable smartphone in the coming years. What are your thoughts about a rollable smartphone? Do you think they are practical, or it is just hype? Do let us know in the comments.