The company is interested in creating an outfolding iPhone but this design would impact the durability of the device.
Apple engineers want to make each side of the foldable smartphone half as thin as a candybar iPhone so that it wouldn’t be thicker when folded. This has proved to be challenging due to battery and display constraints.
The company appears to be in talks with one Asian manufacturer regarding the production of components for two foldable iPhones.
It will have its own set of problems though, most of which are inherent to the foldable tech. For instance, the engineers want to do something about the crease in the middle of the screen that appears after repeated folds. The company also wants to make sure the screen unfolds completely flat without any bump in the middle.