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- Tech Advisor reports on Samsung’s new patent for rollable and slideable display devices that could expand the company’s foldable phone lineup beyond current offerings.
- The patent describes innovative technology requiring advanced sensors to manage shifting camera and antenna positions as screens roll out to achieve square aspect ratios.
- Samsung has previously showcased rollable prototypes at events like MWC 2026, suggesting these ambitious form factors may eventually reach consumers alongside expected devices like the Galaxy Z Fold 8.
Samsung is said to be working on ambitious new forms of foldable phone with roll-out and slideable screens.
A patent spotted by leaker David Kowalski has revealed an intriguing new form of Samsung foldable – or should that be rollable?
Thanks to a collaboration with the WearView website, renders have been supplied based on Samsung’s patent application.
One part of the patent reveals a relatively normal-looking smartphone device that increases in size through a roll-out screen, with the camera module serving as a kind of guiding and locking mechanism for the expanding frame.
It looks like the LG Rollable, which never launched and is broadly being dubbed the Galaxy Z Rollable.
When fully expanded, it takes on a square-ish aspect ratio not too dissimilar to a fully open Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7. The curious part being that the camera module is on the opposite side of the phone to all Galaxy phones.
This more fluid approach would necessitate additional sensors to account for the shifting positions of the camera and antenna positions.
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Samsung on a roll with foldables
It isn’t a totally alien concept, it must be said. Samsung has displayed rollable prototypes in the past – most recently at MWC 2026 though the additional screen came out the top – and has even showcased devices that combine rollable and foldable elements to produce an extremely portable tablet.
It’s worth restating that a patent application doesn’t necessarily mean that a new product is imminent, or even that it will launch at all.
The document describes it as “a slideable display device”, while another diagram shows a “rollable display device” which can seemingly collapse down much smaller, though presumably can’t be used for much when the screen is put away.
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All we know is that Samsung has much broader plans for the foldable format – and we’re not even talking about the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold.
Samsung is planning to expand its foldable roster over the coming months with a wider form factor of foldable. We learned recently that the device we had been calling the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Wide would actually be dubbed the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8.
If you’re wondering what this means for the direct follow-on from the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, well, that’s apparently set to be dubbed the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. Got that?
