from the Is-that-a-phone-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-glad... dept.
LG's rollable phone is a tantalizing response to Samsung's foldables:
For the last two years, it's been an open secret that LG has been working on a smartphone with a rollable screen -- that is, a device with a display that starts out phone-sized and stretches out into a tiny tablet. It's still not quite done, but that didn't stop LG from offering our first real glimpse at the device in a lightning-fast teaser during its CES 2021 press conference.
[...] While details are scant, the LG Rollable is at least visually a tantalizing response to Samsung's slew of foldable phones. Unlike the Galaxy Z Fold 2, which pairs a tall and narrow external display with a spacious interior one, the Rollable's single screen is the same size as a traditional smartphone display -- at least, before it mechanically unfurls to the size of a small tablet. From what we've seen, that clever design means the Rollable's display won't feature the same telltale crease found in many existing foldables.
[...] Given the speed at which Oppo and TCL seem to be working through smartphone concepts, it's very possible we'll wind up with two or three rival rollables later in 2021. Needless to say, if you don't need to buy a new phone right now, it's definitely worth waiting to see what ambitious new hardware this year has in store.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by SomeGuy on Monday January 11 2021, @11:12PM (6 children)
Uh. Can we please have some new tech that doesn't have to do with toy cell phones for a change?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 11 2021, @11:30PM (3 children)
Here:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16329/ces-2021-ambarella-cv5 [anandtech.com]
I will continue to dispute calling cell phones "toys", however.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @05:22AM (2 children)
Would you prefer "insurgent tracking devices", then?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @06:36AM
They track everybody else too.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 12 2021, @07:19AM
Yes. Tools and/or surveillance devices.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Tuesday January 12 2021, @12:13AM
Sure! [bbvaopenmind.com]
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 12 2021, @04:21PM
You say that like there's a problem with buying a $1k cell phone. I mean, there certainly is, but at least before it was gold plated cell phone jewelry.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Frosty Piss on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:16PM (1 child)
Does anyone really want one of these? Are there actual practical uses? Or is it just a flashy status toy?
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday January 13 2021, @05:02AM
I wouldn't mind one if they're affordable & compact enough at one stage. I like to have enough real estate in my cell phone screen; but today that requires lugging around a phone that can hardly fit in my pocket. One that I can roll up into the size of a pen might be quite useful.
Even better if this can one day turn into a multi-purpose roll up screen that I can connect smaller disjointed device like my cell or desk compute to so I don't need a screen for a cell, a screen for a tablet, a screen for my desktop, etc. Such potential.