LG Teases a Rollable Phone At CES 2021 (theverge.com) 39
At CES 2021 today, LG unveiled the LG Rollable, a smartphone that has what the company calls a "unique resizable screen" that transforms from a phone into a small tablet. The screen slides in and out of place to extend its surface area. The Verge reports: It's merely a concept right now, as part of LG's "Explorer Project" experiments, and we still don't know exactly what technology LG is using or the size of the expandable display. LG has previously used its Explorer Project to introduce its LG Wing smartphone, with a wild rotating design and two OLED displays. It's still not clear whether LG's Rollable phone will ever make it to market, but the company has now branded this experiment so it seems more likely we'll see an LG Rollable in the future.
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Not disagreeing, but you sure made them change, buddy! ^^
Re: Trump releases his wrath via MARTIAL LAW! (Score:2)
Well, the same can be said for every single other person that still *believes* instead of observing and concluding.
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Like folding phones, this kind of thing still seems like just a parlor trick. What's the real benefit here?
A bigger screen when you need it.
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What's the real benefit here?
You can get closer to your pr0n?
2020 (Score:1)
Very simple: (Score:2)
Everyone wants a large amount of displaying capability.
Everyone wants a small, easily carriable device.
Obviously, the logical conclusion is augmented reality with heads-up displays simulating as much virtual display space as you ever want.
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Everyone wants a large amount of displaying capability. Everyone wants a small, easily carriable device.
Yep. People are thinking about this completely the wrong way.
Instead of thinking "My screen is already big enough!" you need to be thinking "What if my phone could be half the size?"
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Did it come from the Talons? MCI coverage? (Score:2)
Isn't this an MCI Global communicator brought to life? I'd imagine just like in the 1990s science fiction show, the real draw is adjustable horizontal screen size.
No prototype or demo? (Score:2)
Literally zero info in the article. No prototype, not even a 3D rendered demo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fJPJvD4Uqw [youtube.com]
Ok, that's not from LG, that's just a Gene Roddenberry Fan from Earth Final Conflict.
New normsl phones ARE tablets (Score:2)
Any phone you cannot safely keep n your picket is already a tablet.
It is a shame that the sheep manufacturers now ONLY make massive, thin, fragile phones.
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Your picket is like your pocket, only cuter.
Re: New normsl phones ARE tablets (Score:2)
Ask me again about cuteness, when you're impaled on his picket fence. ;(
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Any phone you cannot safely keep n your picket is already a tablet.
It is a shame that the sheep manufacturers now ONLY make massive, thin, fragile phones.
Yep. This tech has the potential to make your screen bigger but it also has the potential to make your phone smaller .
I'd pick the latter in a heartbeat. Phones are getting ridiculous.
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I suspect the market for small, thick, rugged, big battery smartphones is larger than just you and me.
The lack of products for us to buy is in indictment of captialism FFS !
I remember (Score:2)
dealing drugs on my foldable $1000 Start Tac in 1997 lol
What are they trying to tell us... (Score:2)
Call it the Doobie (Score:2)
Will I be able to smoke it ? (Score:2)
Or use it as toilet paper in an emergency ?
How many times can you roll it before it breaks ?
What if they did a Dumb phone to Smart Phone (Score:2)
but also could transform into a fullsize smartphone when really needed.
If you need that (Score:2)
Just buy a jacket that allows you to put an iPad in one of its pockets.
Re: If you need that (Score:2)
Bitch please! We got iTables in da hood!
*lifts 120" iTable onto shoulder*
*lops arm clean off with it*
It's only a fleshwound. I was holding it wrong.
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LG wasn't even first with this... (Score:3)
... but since they're so well known, they'd like to pull an "Apple" on it, and present a world first, sorry LG But...it exist:
http://www.businesskorea.co.kr... [businesskorea.co.kr]
Demoed live in November: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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It's not hard to build a flexible phone. (Score:2)
It's hard to build one that lasts!
So write a story when that happened, please.
Right now, most phones are provably designed for maximum breakage in normal conditions and minimum repairability and reusability. Which *is* actually a crime.
And it will stay that way until someone sues.
So yes, I'm telling you to just shut up.
I have a better idea. (Score:2)
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