Motorola has teased rollable phone concepts in the past, and has upped its game with foldable phones in recent years. Now owned by Chinese tech giant Lenovo, the company has unveiled a smartphone that can literally wrap around your wrist at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Motorola has introduced a smartphone with a display that wraps around the wrist, demonstrating its display technology advancement in a fiercely competitive market. (Photo: Motorola)
Motorola calls it an adaptive display, and it's designed to showcase the capabilities of future phones with flexible displays. The company says the display can bend and shape into a variety of shapes depending on your needs.
This is just a concept product so it may never be released.
During the demonstration, Motorola representatives showed that the phone can be bent in a variety of ways, such as wrapping it around your wrist or standing on a table. When the phone is wrapped around your wrist, the way the information is displayed changes dynamically. The representative said that the phone is “contextually aware,” so it adapts the display depending on how the device is bent.
Motorola’s idea isn’t new, actually. Lenovo, which owns Motorola, had another idea for a phone you could wrap around your wrist at Tech World in 2016. That same year, a Chinese startup called Moxi Group said it was working on a phone that could wrap around your wrist like a bracelet. But so far, neither has made it to market.
That said, don’t expect a phone with a bendable screen like the one Motorola just showed off to hit stores anytime soon. It looks more like an experiment. Companies tend to go slow and cautious with these kinds of weird new designs. Meanwhile, given some of the hurdles that foldable phones face, like durability and price, it may be a while before this actually happens.
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