Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 leak just revealed big design surprise

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 leak just revealed big design surprise

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There's a reason why physical buttons have persisted on smartphones and most wearables over the years. Capacitive sensors work, but they're not every bit intuitive or reliable as a regular push, especially on sporty wearables, when rain and sweat tin can interfere with utilize.

So you might recollect that a new patent suggesting that Samsung is planning to ditch the physical buttons on a foldable would be bad news. Simply actually upon inspecting the patent uncovered past LetsGoDigital, it makes perfect sense for the unique form factor of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold iii.

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The advantage comes when the handset is in its closed country when the two sides of the device meet. This allows the 2 halves of each capacitive area to combine into a larger button, which certainly beats the current design where your pollex has to lock on to a button that's half the thickness of the frame.

(Epitome credit: Let's Go Digital)

As well equally assuasive for thinner devices without smaller and smaller buttons, capacitive sensors too allow for different ways of controlling things. A volume rocker could be replaced with a volume slider, say, or squeezing the device could activate a specific function. While this would technically mean there are duplicate buttons on both sides of the device when in tablet way, it would be pretty trivial for Samsung to disable one side or both when unfolded, making information technology a surprisingly versatile solution too.

(Image credit: Let'due south Go Digital)

Of course, the patent doesn't say what handset information technology's destined for, if information technology ever gets used in a commercial device at all. The championship of the 110-page patent is "foldable electronic device", which covers an awful lot of Samsung's upcoming output: non merely the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, just likewise a rumored folding tablet and something that opens like a roll. The pictures certainly look similar something from the Z Fold line, though, so if we don't see it in the third generation, it might exist something that appears in the fourth in 2022.

We're expecting to see the Galaxy Z Fold 3 this summer, and stills from an official looking video seem to highlight the features Samsung will be slap-up to push including S Pen support and the visitor's get-go underscreen selfie camera. One thing it's unlikely to exist is cheap, however, with the previous generations of Milky way Z Fold emerging at $1,980 and $ane,999 respectively.

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Freelance contributor Alan has been writing virtually tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine as well. When non weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his e'er-growing games backlog. Or, more probable, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.

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