TechPhones3 reasons I like Motorola’s rollable phone – and 1 why I don’tForget folding phones: Motorola wants your phone to rock and rollWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhones3 reasons I like Motorola’s rollable phone – and 1 why I don’tForget folding phones: Motorola wants your phone to rock and rollWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Forget folding phones: Motorola wants your phone to rock and roll
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(Image credit: Motorola)
(Image credit: Motorola)
Motorola’s parent company Lenovo is having a bit of a party today: its Tech World 2022 event is showing off its forthcoming products and vision for the future. And part of that vision is a phone that doesn’t fold, but rolls. Simply press a button and the screen unrolls to become bigger; do it again and it rolls back down again.
What’s interesting about this concept is that it seems more realistic than some of the more pie-in-the-sky phone concepts we’ve seen in recent years. Motorola isn’t doing really wild stuff here: the screen unrolls from 5 inches to 6.5 inches and back again, effectively taking it from the size of aniPhone 13 minito aniPhone 14 Pro Maxand back again.
(Image credit: Motorola)
(Image credit: Motorola)
Motorola’s rolling phone won’t be rolling out any time soon
Unfortunately Moto has no plans to roll out the rollyphone, a name I’ve just made up, any time soon. And that’s frustrating for sure. The tech just isn’t ready for mass production yet, although when it is it could be a really big deal. That’s because rollable displays don’t have to deal with the same issue that affects every folding display in even thebest folding phones: the fold. That’s proved to be an engineering challenge for the likes ofSamsung, because you don’t want a great big crease down the middle of your screen. With an unrolling display, there isn’t one.
What Motorola’s shown here is very different from the folding phones we’ve seen so far. They are effectively phones that unfold into tablets, and that means they’re fairly thick devices when they’re folded over: theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 4is a good example of that chunkiness. Motorola’s rolling phone looks much slimmer because there’s less phone to cram into the case, and that to my eyes makes it a much more attractive option.
I know rollable displays sometimes feel like the jetpacks and flying cars of the phone world, always just one promised step away from becoming real, but I do think we’ll see this tech make its way into mainstream devices relatively soon.
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