SCREEN LAYOUT FOR FOLDABLE PHONE
A customer has just bought your product: a foldable phone. Like all mobile devices, users can view just about anything—from shopping sites to movies to social media—but now with dual or expandable displays, a customer’s experience can be more accommodating and intuitive than ever.
Your customer turns on the phone, feeling excited. Time for a test run. She logs into her email, remembering to reply to her boss’s request from earlier that morning. After re-reading the email from the cover or folded screen, she wants more space to reply. So, she unfolds the phone to its main screen. The email remains at the top of the main screen as expected, but now she can only see half of the keyboard at the bottom of screen. One of her most exciting purchases of the month has just disappointed her in the simplest way possible.
Screen layout is a vital piece to the puzzle of foldable phones, particularly because of the many possible screen sizes and orientations. With such wonderful technology already on the market, customers expect a seamless experience, especially when their product comes at a hefty price tag. We offer patented technologies for foldable phones to layout screens of different sizes in a cohesive and intuitive presentation, no matter which way you hold or fold it.
For example, suppose you’re holding a foldable phone vertically to watch a live-streamed soccer game. Wanting to see the player statistics, you rotate the phone and access the statistics, holding it horizontally. The phone re-layouts the contents accordingly: the screen’s top portion shows the game with subtitles, while the bottom shows player statistics and past scores.
And suppose you want to read an article on a foldable phone, with the phone in the folded mode. Now you want a larger screen.
Now you want a larger screen. So you unfold the phone.
The Reading App instantly adapts to the larger display, automatically re-laying out the content to fit into the larger screen perfectly. Certain elements that should be kept together are not split apart. For example, graphs and their corresponding captions are kept together to fit into the screen whether the phone is in the folded or unfolded mode.
If you want the text to be bigger, you can adjust the text size for added comfort.
Whether held in hand or placed on a surface, the foldable phone offers a smooth, immersive reading experience.
And suppose you are shopping online using the folded or cover screen to show product details with texts, images, and animations. To see user comments and critiques, you unfold the phone. The left side of the main screen still shows the product details, with the right side bringing in customer reviews, such as from TikTok or Instagram regarding the product, significantly improving the mobile shopping experience.
Or, you’re reading a travel site with text and videos in the cover screen. To draft your trip itinerary, you unfold the phone, expanding to the main screen. The left portion of the main screen still shows the travel site, while the right includes a virtual keyboard. With our patented technologies, customer experience is enhanced.