Motorola Unveils a Flexible Phone You Can Wear on Your Wrist
It is surprising to see that foldable smartphones have become increasingly prevalent. Once considered revolutionary and potentially impractical, this technology has now become widespread, with every brand introducing their own version of foldable or flip smartphones. Recent releases such as the Oppo Find N3 Flip, Google Pixel Fold, and OnePlus Open demonstrate this trend. However, there is still one technology, bending smartphones, that remains in the prototype stage and has not yet been introduced to the consumer market.
But that could soon change as Motorola unveiled its latest concept device, a bendable smartphone that can be wrapped around your wrist! Let’s take a closer look.
Motorola presents a concept phone
At Lenovo Tech World 2023, Lenovo-owned Motorola unveiled the latest iteration of its prototype bendable smartphone. For the uninitiated, Motorola first announced a bendable “wrist” phone at Tech World in 2016. Since then, the device has been mostly kept under wraps. But now Motorola took the opportunity to unveil the new concept while showing off some of its features.
According to the company, the device has an FHD+ pOLED screen, which when placed flat extends to a 6.9-inch panel. On the other hand, it can also be adjusted to a standing position, reducing the screen real estate to 4.6 inches. Being a bendable smartphone, it can also be wrapped around the wrist for a similar experience to the Motorola razr+ external display to stay connected on the go.
The snapshot shared in the publication shows a fabric on the back of the device, perhaps to make it more comfortable to wear for long periods of time.
According to Motorola, “This adaptive display concept continues to build on the display and mechanical innovations of our foldable and rollable devices in both the smartphone and PC categories.”
When could it appear?
While there was a wow factor to the folding concept Motorola introduced, it was only a prototype and not all will make it to the production stage. Foldable smartphones have recently become more common, even though they have been around for about five years. That’s why it’s likely that we won’t see flexible wrist-mounted smartphones for at least a few years.
