At the Lenovo Tech World 2023 conference today, Lenovo unveiled a highly anticipated bendable concept phone and showed it off for nearly two minutes at the launch.
After seven years, the Lenovo MOTOROLA Innovation research and development team has once again brought the concept of flexible mobile phones back to the public. Similar to the version unveiled in 2016, the new concept phone features a flexible OLED display that can be bent backwards and slipped over the wrist like a cuff.
Igeekphone notes that the new concept phone is more mature than the version from seven years ago. The 2016 version can only bend into a wristband shape and make an unnerving crunch. The new version can implement more forms, from “happy worm” to “tent mode”.
The back of the new phone is made of orange fabric, and when the demonstrator wears it on the wrist, a square metal block resembling a wristwatch can be seen below the phone, which appears to prevent the phone from sliding off when the arm moves. Thankfully, there was no crunch during this demo like the 2016 version.
The presenters spent about a minute introducing the concept phone and using it to show off the device’s built-in wallpaper-generating capabilities, for a total of nearly two minutes, twice as long as the 2016 version.
Will this bendy phone ever actually hit the market? That seems unlikely at the moment. A few minutes of presentation may be a novelty, but when the novelty wears off, people may start asking questions like, “What happens when you put your wrist on the table?” “, “What happens when the arm moves quickly?” “, “How do I answer the phone? Let’s wait. Still, this is a reminder of the innovative spirit of the old MOTOROLA.