Motorola beyond folding, here is its idea of ​​a rollable smartphone

Despite the folding are the only one (and profitable) news of a sector smartphone increasingly conservative, manufacturers have not yet found the format right and they are exploring alternatives of various types.

Smartphones with rollable screen I am one of them, and its most famous exponent is LG Rollablean abandoned device (also due to LG’s farewell to the phone market) despite being close to the launch, and who recently appeared in an interesting video. But this is the past, and in the recent months they appeared different rumor on similar projects from Samsung, OPPO, Xiaomi, TCL and Motorola.

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Just the latter, after having presented this summer its renewed folding Razr 2022 (still reserved for the Chinese market), he just showed up at the event Tech World 2022 from Lenovo (its parent company) a prototype working with rollable screen.

The news does not come unexpectedly, as it was already in May Evan Blass he had early developmentbut the concept indicates that the project is actually concrete and already at a rather advanced stage, as can be seen from video below.

The device is equipped with a OLED panel flexible able, to the press of a buttonto extend vertically from “A little bit more than” 4 inches to 6.5 in.

Despite since technical point the phone sounds work as expected, the part software still seems far from being optimized, as only it background follows the expansion with a ‘mesmerizing animation. Icons And navigation keys they “scroll” on the screen as if they were printed on top and there is no real one interface that fits the two formats.

For its part, Motorola did not release others information, limiting himself only to showing this video, evidently for purpose promotional for their development skills. Our hope is that this does not resolve itself in one of the many projects then abandoned, but obviously the technical difficulties to overcome are enormous, one above all the fragility of the flexible screen always exposed (and which in the folds is in fact protected between the two parts of the phone).