Most incoming flexible display phones for 2019 aim to provide a tablet that can fit into your pocket while folded. But Samsung may have something else in mind: a phone that is a foldable, a clamshell, and a slider all at the same time, collapsing vertically to half its size.

According to Dutch tech site and patent archeologist Lets Go Digital, a patent awarded by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on November 27, 2018, shows that Samsung may be working on a vertically foldable clamshell Galaxy phone that could more easily fit in your pocket when closed, expanding to its 6-point-something inches size when opened
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