Samsung exec spotted using a mysterious ‘stretchable’ smartphone

Is Samsung working on a stretchable smartphone? Rumours of Samsung’s new phone have revived after the company’s vice chairman Lee Jae-young was seen with an unannounced phone at a meeting in southern Seoul.

According to a Korea Times report, the mysterious phone appeared slimmer than the Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip foldable phones. Speculations are the device is an expandable smartphone that can stretch into a tablet form factor. The report adds the phone was showcased at private demos for clients at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January this year.

Even though details about the phone are scant at the moment, we can get some clue from Samsung’s patent for new smartphone designs with the World Intellectual Property Office last year. The company had filed for a patent for a device with an expandable display that stretched out instead of folding.