TCL Unveils Trifold and Rollable Smartphones (betanews.com) 25
A year ago, we started to see the first wave of foldable devices and they were ... disappointing. But companies are not backing down. TCL is already looking ahead with a pair of foldable and rollable prototypes that imagines what the future of phones could look like. From a report: One is a trifold variant with two hinges, while the other is even crazier -- it is rollable! Yes, TCL has designed a phone that gets larger by utilizing a flexible display that rolls and unrolls -- it looks to be quite genius, actually. "At just 9mm in thickness, this portable concept re-imagines the standard smartphone design, with a rollable AMOLED display that uses internal motors to extend the 6.75-inch screen to a 7.8-inch display size with the press of a button. This allows for an entirely new device user experience that includes split screen and multi-tasking UI enhancements customized by TCL. Thanks to a larger axis and rolled display, the device has no wrinkles or creases which are commonly found with foldable AMOLEDs. When not in use, a motor-driven sliding panel utilizes advanced mechanics to conceal the flexible display," says TCL.
TCL/TK (Score:2)
They should name their phone the TooKool.
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Then they could come out with a scholastic edition: "TooKool for Skool"
Well one possibility fo a rollable phone... (Score:4, Interesting)
I will give a million geek points to the phone vendor that builds a rollable, that when rolling up deploys lenses in the "tube" to be able to use your rolled phone as a camera with a very serious zoom (or macro).
We're going to 5 blades! (Score:2)
So basically every one of these companies thinks that folding phones is cool, so why not be twice as cool with twice the folds?
Reminds me of a particular story from The Onion about Gillette going from 3 to 5 blades because Schick had the audacity to have 4 blades on their new product.
Re: We're going to 5 blades! (Score:2)
That's my favorite article from The Onion. Still cracks me up when I read it:
Fuck everything, we're doing five blades:
https://www.theonion.com/fuck-... [theonion.com]
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it also gave birth to the gillette fusion several years later
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And then they actually did it! https://gillette.com/en-us/pro... [gillette.com]
There's no such thing as satire anymore. It all became obsolete years ago; it just can't keep up with the ambient idiocy these days.
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Reminds me of a particular story from The Onion about Gillette going from 3 to 5 blades because Schick had the audacity to have 4 blades on their new product.
And before that was the SNL sketch [jt.org] from 1975 about the Triple-Trac razor: "The Triple-Trac. Because you’ll believe anything."
Totally unlike 5 blades (Score:3)
To
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Just buy clothes with bigger pockets, that's what I do. I'd have a 7" phone if I could get a decent one.
Bugs (Score:2)
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Foreseeing humorous hacks. (Score:2)
When someone hacks the phone and gets it to unroll while in your pocket and you have to cut it out ...
Also, motors in the phone -- what could go wrong with that...
Re: Foreseeing humorous hacks. (Score:1)
Almost every phone already has a vibration motor.
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Almost every phone already has a vibration motor.
Ya, I actually knew that, thanks. Though, that motor isn't really connected to anything...
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I'm looking forward to a rollable. (Score:2)
Foldable has never sat well with me. I see way too many issues with a crease point.
On the other hand finally having an Earth Final Conflict Global would be friggin awesome.
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> finally having an Earth Final Conflict Global would be friggin awesome.
We're still ten years away on the connectivity ... but it'll happen the same way GPS got tiny and amazing.
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Interestingly all the pictures are of the "half out" mode. The fully collapsed mode is handy and the fully open mode was what they used for real map looking and what have you.
You just watch... (Score:2)
If only they achieved a small form factor... (Score:2)
Rollable yes, folding no (Score:2)
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We have microns-thick glass with insane bending radius. The problem would be getting it layered on the display itself.
best sci-fi phone (Score:1)