LG announces 'bendy' phones due next year
LG has announced it plans to sell the "world's first flexible” screen for smartphones from next year.
The new phones will be "bendable and unbreakable"
Samsung has already announced similar plans.
"The new display is vertically concave from top to bottom with a radius of 700mm [28in], opening up a world of design innovations in the smartphone market," LG said in a press statement.
The design is said to be "bendable and unbreakable".
"What's more, it is also the world's lightest, weighing a mere 7.2g [0.25oz] even with a 6in screen, the largest among current smartphone OLED displays," it added.
"I think LG is doing this to show it is innovative, to do something different and to stand out from the rest of the bar-style screen devices that we have at the moment," said David McQueen of Informa.
"But I don't think consumers are going to be that interested by a slightly curved design.
"However, we do think there will be interest if flexible screens are used to offer different form factors.
"For example a device that you snap round your wrist or a traditional shaped smartphone whose screen wraps around the sides onto a bit of the back so that the edges become touchscreen rather than hard buttons."
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