Windows Phone 2.0 Microsoft toys with foldable handset design with split camera.
Microsoft's idea for a split camera originates in Finland.
A new Microsoft patent, invented by former Nokians, shows the company has been thinking about how to design bigger cameras for thin phones using a foldable phone design.
The patent, called split-camera autoalignment, details the company's efforts to overcome the limits imposed on a camera's capabilities by ever thinner smartphones.
Apple has given up on the flush cameras of earlier iPhones, opting for the camera bump ever since the iPhone 6 to enable more powerful cameras, with the bump remaining even on the thicker iPhone X.