Motorola has unveiled a “rollable” smartphone at Mobile World Congress.
Ryan Browne | CNBC
BARCELONA — Motorola is showing off an idea smartphone that rolls out as a user slides it up.
The phone, which is being featured on the Mobile World Congress tech conference in Barcelona, has a versatile five-inch display that extends to six.5 inches when pushed upward.
The thought is to permit for higher productivity and multitasking, while also easily fitting inside your pocket.
To make certain, the phone is not something you will find a way to purchase any time soon. The phone is at an early concept stage, and there is not any telling how much it would cost.
Motorola isn’t any longer the key mobile industry player it once was — the corporate shipped 51 million units in 2021, in accordance with Statista data.
The design not less than shows innovation in a market that has struggled to give you recent features to get consumers excited.
Firms are hoping to alter that with recent form aspects, similar to folding displays.
“It underlines the explosion of innovation underway using flexible display technology with a slew of concept products experimenting with an enormous number of form aspects,” Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight, told CNBC.
The device is coming at a time of pain for smartphone makers.
Last yr, the industry saw sales decline 11.3% as consumers tightened their belts, exacerbating an ongoing trend of individuals holding onto their phones for longer as upgrades from major players turn out to be incremental.
Lenovo, which owns Motorola, also unveiled a rollable laptop on the conference this week. Just like the phone, the laptop slowly rises vertically so that you would be able to see more of an internet page or have multiple apps open on one screen.
