Many companies have already jumped into the foldable phone market, but the market may take several years to reach maturity. As such, the first companies to have their own foldable smartphones available in the market have a huge advantage over those who have not yet had the courage or resources to come out with such products.
Even though these foldable smartphones are still crazy expensive, they seem to have an audience. It remains to be seen how big this audience really is and whether or not foldable smartphones will become a thing, unlike 3D phones that disappeared very rapidly.
After Samsung, Motorola, and Huawei, HTC seems to be building its own foldable smartphone. Although HTC's foldable smartphone is currently on paper, the Taiwanese company is interested in the concept.
HTC filed a patent for a new foldable smartphone late last year. The patent (spotted by LetsGoDigital) was published back in August by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office) and looking at the sketches, HTC's device doesn't look great. The technology behind this needs to be streamlined, to be sure.
It spreads outward and while it can present an extra layer of embedment to the phone, it is quite unpleasant to the eye. But the biggest question mark is that HTC's device folds outward, so the display will always be outward.
HTC's foldable smartphone does not feature a secondary display like Motorola's new RAZR, but because it folds outward, users should at least operate the phone without opening it in theory.
LetsGoDigital made a handful of renders based on a patented image filed by HTC, but the final device may not look like what we're seeing in these images. It is difficult to say whether HTC is still determined to launch its own foldable smartphone, but if it does, we hope it will come up with a better concept.
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