Is this what OnePlus' tri-fold smartphone would look like if it ever debuts?

(Pocket-lint) - OnePlus has considered making a foldable smartphone, astatine slightest according to a precocious discovered patent.

The patent is for a foldable with 3 displays and 2 hinges that tin beryllium locked with a slider. It is believed the patent was filed successful China successful 2020 and published successful July 2021. It's present disposable successful the World Intellectual Property Office planetary database, arsenic archetypal reported by LetsGoDigital.

To get a amended thought of what a OnePlus tri-fold smartphone mightiness look similar if and erstwhile it does launch, Parvez Khan, aka Technizo Concept, made a bid of renders reportedly based connected the patent images. As you tin see, the instrumentality tin beryllium folded successful antithetic ways for antithetic uses cases.

It tin laic level arsenic a ample tablet, for instance. In its astir compact form, the instrumentality is similar a regular phone.

It's thought OnePlus mightiness present its archetypal foldable telephone successful 2022. But OnePlus hasn't yet confirmed it is making specified a instrumentality - fto unsocial 1 that has 3 displays. Keep successful caput its competition, including Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi, person each introduced foldables implicit the past fewer years, and they are considered beforehand runners successful foldable show technology. So, OnePlus does person immoderate catching up to bash successful this space.

Earlier this summer, OnePlus hinted it was astir to denote a foldable phone. But that turned retired to beryllium a prank. It was conscionable trolling Samsung.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 22 November 2021.