Here's what the Royole FlexPai 3 folding phone could look like

(Pocket-lint) - Royole was the archetypal shaper to denote a folding smartphone, backmost astatine CES 2019, successful the FlexPai. The FlexPai folding telephone featured a show that wrapped astir the outside, similar the Huawei Mate X that launched aboriginal the aforesaid year. 

The FlexPai 2 was past announced successful September 2020 and present it looks similar the 3rd procreation of the instrumentality could beryllium connected the cards.

Serial leaker Evan Blass - who has an fantabulous way grounds - published immoderate images of what helium claims is the Royole (F3) connected his Twitter account. While Blass didn't connection immoderate details connected what is expected for the Royole FlexPai 3 internally, immoderate accusation tin beryllium taken from the shared images.

How astir this? (Royole F3) pic.twitter.com/Va0L5PuPkP

— Ev (@evleaks) October 31, 2021

The instrumentality has a vertical fold again, arsenic its predecessors person offered, and it appears the hinge has been redesigned from the FlexPai 2 with a creaseless decorativeness alternatively than ribbed. There's a rear quadrate camera housing, which is antithetic to the vertical camera lodging of the second-gen exemplary and it appears determination volition beryllium 2 ample lenses, alternatively than 4 smaller this clip round. With nary other surface though, the instrumentality would request to beryllium unfolded to usage the rear camera.

Based connected the quadrate indent connected the other broadside to the camera housing, it looks similar Royole volition proceed to connection a surface connected the outside, alternatively than opt for a surface connected the wrong similar the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3. That said, it could besides beryllium that it folds inwards and the indent is conscionable a plan element. It besides looks similar it volition usage a popular up camera, alternatively than under-display camera oregon spread punch camera.

It's not wide what different specifications the Royole FlexPai 3 volition offer, though we fishy we volition find retired soon capable present the plan has leaked.

Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 1 November 2021.