Surface Trio? Microsoft patents possible triple-screen smartphone design

guest · Dec 28, 2021

December 27, 2021

What you need to know

A new Microsoft patent shows a triple-screen device.

The patent was filed back in June 2020 but just became available publicly.

The design could possibly solve one of the biggest complaints about Surface Duo.

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A new patent was posted on December 23, 2021 (filed on June 23, 2020), and spotted by Patently Apple, shows Microsoft has ideas on how a triple-screen smartphone (presumably) could work.

While the patent is quite long and technical, there is a single drawing (seen below) associated with the idea to illustrate the concept.
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The device (1400) features three displays (1402, 1404, and 1408), all connected by two hinge areas (1406 and 1410).

So, basically, just Surface Duo's design plus an extra display.
What makes the concept interesting is since this is a hinged device, it can collapse in on itself to again become a single-screen form factor, e.g., with display 1408 facing outward all the time when "closed."
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It's also worth noting that these hinges appear to be unidirectional and not bidirectional like the current Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2. Since they do not need to "reverse fold" with this design, there should be no gap between the displays, and instead, it would be one continuous screen with the glass edges meeting each other.
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Melionix · Dec 28, 2021

Personally, I would consider buying a Microsoft phone if it had 1 screen. 3? Nope.

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