A rectangular phone cinched around the wrist, music made up by bending a device. Those videos have gone viral on the Internet. So, are you excited for bendable phones?
Are foldable and bendable phones coming?
In the digital age, the mobile devices are so necessary to access the Internet, data. Smartphone manufacturers always upgrade their products, but they just enhance RAM, storage capacity, equipped unnecessary features to their phones. It seems to be boring. That’s why the devices can bendable, foldable, twistable that will electrify and energize the industry. Let’s think how cool it is when you bend, fold an electric device.
Foldable and bendable phones will change the way how people carry and use them. Folding a device gives you a smaller, more portable package to carry around. You can set the display to be a 3D work surface. Giving you a fantastic experience when you entertain on that device. Use the way you bend a device to trigger an action, like during gameplay or for creating sound. You can fold open a phone into a tablet.
In fact, there were some devices which can be bent, folded, twisted. Take a look back, LG Electronics LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper. An articulated wraparound phone was known as the CPlus, was a concept device Lenovo. The other phone maker also efforted to make the curved-screen phone such as Samsung Galaxy Ground, S7 edge, nearly bezel-less Mi Mix. According to a Friday report on Korean news site Electronic Times, display maker LG Electronics will supply the folding displays once they start mass production in 2018.
Manufacturers are trying their best
It’s likely that the first of these futuristic. Companies pour cash into R&D to research about flexible phones. But, it will take a long time to see them in popular. Companies tend to go slowly and cautiously. The reasons are: cost a lot to make, sell in small number to research the market, sell in one or two test markets to see how early buyers react.