If you’re considering buying a foldable phone, your biggest concern is likely its durability – these fancy flexing mobiles surely can’t survive too many folds before breaking, right?Well, foldables have come on leaps and bounds since the original Samsung Galaxy Fold, but it’s clearly something that Apple has been looking at, and a new patent, spotted by PatentlyApple (opens in new tab), shows a bending mobile with some durability tricks. This patent shows a folding phone – different images show different form factors, so it’s not clear that it’s the iPhone Flip or any other rumored device – with an extra layer over the screen that fills in any micro-cracks that form due to bending.  These small cracks can turn into larger-scale screen cracks, and addressing the issue early reduces the risk of that happening.
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