If tablet and mobile technology has proved anything to us in the last few years, it's that companies like Apple and Samsung will go the extra mile to bend the rules but in 2016 Samsung could be making plans to physically bend it. Sooner or later, someone is going to invent a phone or tablet that actually folds; something with a screen that can be rolled up into a tube, for ultimate portability. Samsung is clearly hoping it will be that someone, as the company has recently patented some intriguing ideas for how we might interact with foldable screens in the future. PatentlyMobile reports on one recent filing, which proposes "a foldout design that offers an exposed tab allowing users to quickly choose a favourite app as they unfold/open their device". So, for example, holding down the calendar icon on the spine of the device while you pull out the main screen would automatically launch the calendar app. This could appear in a future incarnation of one of Samsung's devices. We've already seen the company's Edge device where the screen edges along the side of the phone so who is to say that this could be the flip phone of the future?
