Ambitious potential Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 successors have been shown off on video

Slidable and dual-fold concepts caught on camera

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If you thoughtSamsungwas happy with just the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip lines when it comes tofoldable phonesthen think again. We’ve known for a while that the company is experimenting with different foldable form factors, and now some of these experiments have been shown off in a video.

A short clip shared by@UniverseIce– a reputable leaker – shows several foldable and extendable Samsung phones which haven’t yet been announced.

One of these has the look of a standard handset but then lets the user pull one or both sides of the screen to extend it, while another is like aGalaxy Z Fold 4but with two folds rather than one, so it opens out into a laptop-sized screen.

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We also catch a glimpse of one that folds like a laptop, but it’s all screen rather than having a keyboard on the bottom half, and in this video it’s displaying a controller layout for gaming.

While we’d take any leak with a pinch of salt, this looks like an official Samsung promotional video, and the contents would have been hard to fake, so this is likely genuine.

That said, for now these are possibly just experiments and concept devices, so while some of these form factors might see the light of day eventually, we wouldn’t expect an imminent announcement.

Analysis: not the first time we’ve seen Samsung’s experiments

While this is the first time we’ve seen these concepts on video, it’s not the first time Samsung has shown off these ideas.

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Back in November the companylaunched a sitehighlighting potential uses for foldableOLEDscreens, and these included several smartphone concepts.

One was the ‘Slidable Flex’ which looks a lot like the stretchable screen in the video. Then there’s the Flex Note which is the laptop-like device. There were others too which aren’t seen in this new video, like the Rollable Flex, which has a rollable screen.

So Samsung seems to have no shortage of foldable phone ideas. Hopefully some of them will end up as commercially available products eventually, as with the likes of theMotorola Razr 2022and theXiaomi Mix Fold 2following Samsung’s lead in terms of designs, it’s already starting to feel like there’s a lack of innovation in the foldable space.

James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.

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