INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Fancy a screen on the rear of your smartphone If the latest patents from LG and Samsung are anything to go by that could well become
reality.The patents, filed at the American patent office, were spotted by Dutch site Mobielkopen and included sketches of handsets with
large displays on the front, and smaller displays on the rear.Samsung's second screen design (filed in December 2016) is the larger of the
two, taking up about half the space on the rear of the phone
There's no sign of a fingerprint scanner though, so either it's planned to be built into the display, or this handset will rely solely
on face recognition.It also appears to be the thinner handset, with power and volume keys on one side, a USB-C port on its base and no sign
of a headphone jack.Meanwhile the LG design (filed in June 2016) features a smaller second display on the back, which sits above a camera
block and what appears to be a centralized fingerprint scanner.The overall design of the phone looks chunkier, but there are no buttons or
ports on show - either LG opted to exclude these features from the patent application, or its planning a port and button-less
smartphone.We've already seen HTC take a step towards losing physical buttons on the flagship U12 Plus, so it's not outside the realms of
possibility.Second screens from Samsung and LG (credit: Mobielkopen)Not the first timeThis isn't the first time we've seen multiple displays
LG has form in this respect as it introduced us to second screen smartphones with the V10 and V20.They featured a small display above the
main screen on the front of the handsets, although LG has moved away from this particular implementation with more recent V-series
handsets.However, Russian firm Yotaphone offered handsets closer to the patents above, with the original Yotaphone and the Yotaphone 2
featuring large, e-Ink displays on their rears.Things didn't work out for Yotaphone though, but perhaps these new, refined designs from LG
and Samsung can spark a second screen smartphone resurgence.M5UAwSSCBWRqrPa2XyinGN.jpg#
