Motorola unveils a new rollable smartphone concept

A new concept has been introduced by Motorola which gives an idea of a rollable smartphone. It features a screen that extends and contracts with a touch of a button. The gadget was shown out at Lenovo's Tech World, and it's just the most recent example of how manufacturers are experimenting with new methods to advance today's smartphones.

The foldable display on Lenovo's concept rollable phone is 5 inches wide and 6.5 inches long. That makes it smaller than the iPhone 13 Mini in its reduced form and around the same size as the iPhone 14 Pro Max in its extended state. Since the product is still in the idea phase, the firm has no current plans to market it. The Razr 3 was first shown to the Chinese market by Motorola back in August. Evan Blass, who is known for leaking information about smartphones, made a statement in May on the website 91Mobiles claiming that Motorola was testing prototypes of a rollable smartphone. The method that Motorola is taking for rollable smartphones is unique in comparison to some of the other concepts that we have seen so far. For example, Samsung and TCL have created prototype devices with displays that stretch horizontally rather than vertically in order to move between the modes of a smartphone and a tablet. Instead of producing a device that combines the functions of a smartphone and a tablet, Motorola's plan intends to create a smartphone with a screen that can adapt to different sizes depending on the context.

You should anticipate that it will take some time before you will actually be able to buy a rollable phone. Just as companies like Samsung presented concepts for foldable phones years before the first Galaxy Fold appeared, you should anticipate that it will take some time. Despite this, Ross Young, co-founder, and CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants thinks rollable might solve some of the issues that plague current large-format foldable like the Galaxy Z Fold series. A book-like device may be replaced by the rollable notion, he suggested in an earlier interview, since it would be smaller. Moreover, "It ought to weigh a lot less." Samsung has become the undisputed leader in the flexible smartphone industry, despite the fact that Motorola's first foldable Razr attracted a lot of attention when it debuted in 2019. According to Counterpoint Research, Samsung controls 62% of the global market for foldable smartphones, with Huawei trailing far behind at 16%. According to the same poll, sales of foldable phones are expected to increase by 73% in 2022, demonstrating that consumers are warming up to the idea of smartphones with flexible screens.