For years, the community of lovers of Manzana calls for the development and launch of an iPhone with a folding screen that competes against Samsung and its Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold lines.
Since May 2021 Reports had been circulating that the Cupertino boys would launch their device in the following year, in 2023, in about 10 months, at the time of writing this note.
However, it seems that things have changed. Every iPhone model Apple has released has distinguished itself by keeping innovations to a minimum. Where the most remarkable thing has been the update of the main sensor of its camera after 6 years using exactly the same.
Now, in the most recent reports, it is stated that the company has decided to leave the plan to launch a folding iPhone for later and that its first gadget with this feature would actually be an iPad.
This news could be to the absolute displeasure of those who held back from investing this year in a new Apple smartphone, calculating that in a few months Tim Cook’s company would really evolve its line of smartphones.
But fortunately someone has gone ahead achieving the impossible.
Loco creates a functional folding iPhone inspired by Samsung
The YouTube channel 科技美学 has blown up the internet in the last few hours, with the release of a spectacular video detailing how they managed to build a flexible screen iPhone that is almost 100% functional.
The video is in Mandarin Chinese, but fortunately it has English subtitles and thanks to that we know how this madman, called “The Rock”, was able to put together a folding iPhone from an iPhone 13 Pro, investing a lot of money and having great patience. in a tortuous process of trial and error:
The so-called iPhone V, took as its base the architecture of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, separating the internal components into two sections.
It was necessary to alter the internal order of the iPhone 13 Pro and rearrange everything. At the top was the battery and the front and rear camera sensors. At the bottom is the device’s motherboard, along with the processor and memory.
As we saw in the video, it is absolutely feasible to develop an iOS smartphone with a screen that doubles and to achieve it, nothing was needed other than time.
Because it took this guy more than six months of trial and error with the iPhone 13 Pro’s flexible touchpad under the screen to get it out and functional.
The body in its necessary parts used 3D printing and this is how the iPhone V was formed.