We’ve been hearing rumors about a tri-fold Samsung foldable for a couple of years now, fueled by the sight of a some concept devices from subsidiary Samsung Display. But a newly uncovered patent spotted by Patently Apple shows us how a tri-fold Samsung smartphone might actually work.
Samsung's patent shows a phone with a single large OLED display split into three sections. Those sections are separated by two hinges, giving the phone a zig-zag shape in the middle of the fold. In fact, it's a shape that would be perfectly suited to the name “Z Fold” if Samsung hadn’t already used it on the current Z Fold series in which phones open up like a book.
