iPhone Fold: the solution had been before our eyes from the start

For a few days rumors aroundd’un iPhone Foldare more and more numerous. If the idea of ​​a folding smartphone from Cupertino has existed since the birth of Samsung Fold, things have been accelerating greatly in recent months. According to the latest information at our disposal, this iPhone Fold would have the right to a unique technology.

Apple would have decided to use a liquid metal hinge to improve sustainability and help minimize the folds of the screen. It is the user of the Chinese social network Weibo,Instant Digital, which reveals this information to us. He thus confirms the words of his Taiwanese colleague, the financial analysis specializing in Apple, Ming-Chi Kuo.

The "liquid metal" used here would have several advantages for folding smartphones. Indeed, unlike the metals we meet every day,It does not have the same atomic structure. The arrangement is disorderly, making the whole more resistant to flexion.

This "liquid" metal (this is a marketing name) is obtained thanks to rapid cooling techniques. With its unique structure, it presentsa resistance 2.5 times higher than that of a titanium -based alloy. At the same time, it presents an aesthetic without hook, similar to stainless steel and its "smooth" side.

A well -known metal at Apple

The "liquidmetal" according to its name in English is a particular alloy, with a very different atomic structure as we said above. But it should not be believed that its use would be a novelty on the side of the Apple Park. Indeed, the Cupertino firm has already used this metal, and you all have a copy in your home.

Indeed, the small trombone which is used to eject the SIM card of the iPhone is built inLiquidmetal. Apple had also filed many patents a few years ago to protect this alloy. They always have an exclusivity license on this material, making its use impossible inSamsungand others.

This would give a considerable advantage to Apple in the face of a competition already well installed. On the side of experts fromLiquidmetalLike one of his co-concerters, Atakan Peker, no one doubts the capacities of this alloy. As early as 2012, Atakan spoke of use in a hinge. Proof that everything comes in time, who knows how to wait.