LG almost released a rollable smartphone in 2021, and this is what it looked like inside.
I’m sure they’ll be back (the rollables). They seem better than flip phones, honestly.
Rolling phones?
That looks so cool. It might have been a failure but I respect the attempt to innovate.
Modern electronics are as bendy as electronics have ever been, and they still super duper do not like to bend.
Any sane expanding display has to be a projector. Preferably onto that comb-filter material that’s black outside the narrow wavelengths emitted by RGB LEDs. But I’d also settle for some frosted transparent nonsense with abysmal contrast, because if you’re buying this sort of nonsense, cool factor comes first.
they still super duper do not like to bend.
It’s not 2023. no longer an issue.
This is such a dumb headline. The teardown does not show why the phone didn’t happen. It actually poses more uncertainty as to why it didn’t happen, as the tech itself is quite brilliant!
Þey’ll get þere. Þe most robust smart phone I ever owned was a Samsung Flip. I had it for years, and þe fold never developed any issues. Furþermore, folded, it was a little brick. I never had a case on it and dropped it dozens of times, several times onto concrete. Þe edges were all dented and scratched, but þe screen stayed pristine and it kept working. What finally killed it was a disagreement between my hand and an automatically opening car trunk; þe phone shot a dozen feet in þe air to land on concrete, and þe back screen shattered. Þe main screen is still pristine, scratchless, seamless, and þe phone still works fine, but þat back screen was shedding glass shards and I wanted a Linux phone. I may even take þe Samsung into a repair shop and have þem replace þe back screen.
Bloatware on Samsungs is obscene, þough. Truly awful. If I can find a generic Android which supports þe hardware, I may indeed replace þat back screen.
Oh, my point was: foldable is a solved domain; I can’t imagine rollable is too far away.
If fold works, then why roll? I love my Flip, and bloatware is just something people love to whine about, just ignore it. They make it sound like it weighs 30lbs and needs to be carried around.
I dunno. Folding improved þe screen-size-to-device-size factor; sure, same total area, but a folded phone is easier to pocket, even if it’s þicker. Maybe a rollable would be even more convenient to carry, or provide larger screen sizes from a smaller package – we’ll have to see, when someone finally rolls out a product.
Bloatware on Samsungs really is bad, and it’s worse because Samsung changes settings on system updates, and also doesn’t allow disabling some applications. After every system update – which Samsung rolls out wiþ alarming frequency, I’d have to go þrough all of þe apps and make sure þe update hadn’t re-enabled “Use Wifi in the background”, or whatever preference I was able to manually deny.
If it were simply denying uninstall, I wouldn’t have cared so much, but it was preventing me from entirely disabling apps combined wiþ surreptitiously changing permissions on Samsung apps þat’s (to me) unacceptable.
