TCL likely to develop watch-like foldable smartphone
The concept was being worked on by Lenovo in the year 2016, however it was abandoned later.
(Web Desk) – Multiple companies have been working on an idea of developing foldable smartphones.
According to an American media website, TCL Corporation, a Chinese multinational electronics company, will soon introduce five models of smartphones with foldable designs.
Four of them are variants on a theme (folding horizontally or vertically, inward or outward), but a fifth model would be able to turn into a smartwatch-style bracelet.
The concept was being worked on by Lenovo in the year 2016, however it was abandoned later.
Whether or not TCL will introduce such models is not certain, however more information and facts are expected to be announced by the company in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019.
Earlier, TCL vowed to ship its first foldable device in 2020, but it wasn’t clear what its plans were at the time beyond some kind of smartphone.
It’s clearly more interested in the phone than first thought, although it said that TVs and other devices could use the technology. Whatever ships, it might not live up to people’s dreams.
Current bendable displays are not able to fold themselves alike paper, so they will typically be thicker.
The relatively exotic nature of the hardware tends to carry a premium.
While carrying essential software applications, Android aims to support foldable phones, but it is yet not certain how well that would work in practice.
