Future smartphones are going to be extendable with
flexible screens
LG has long
experimented with flexible displays. Their years of research started to bear
fruit in the company’s light and bendy OLED TV displays. It now looks as though
the company may be ready to begin trickling that tech down into some
interesting portable devices.
A recently uncovered 2016 patent describes a device
with a flexible, extendable display. Filed with the World Intellectual Property
Organisation, it shows a device that can be pulled at the sides, extending the
screen depending on the application. This appears to leave an exposed edge to
the extended part of the screen, with a metal frame circling the display when
back in its ‘neutral’ position.
The patent shows a number of different applications
for the device, including an extended keyboard, and more screen real estate
when dealing with emails, versus the at-a-glance portability of its smaller
portrait position.
The device, as described in the patent, would include
many of the features you’d expect to find in your average smartphone too, from
a wireless module to a camera and mic, right down to a removable battery. A
patent, however, is not a definite sign of a product in the works, but merely a
company protecting its ideas from the competition.
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