LG almost released a rollable smartphone in 2021, and this is what it looked like inside.
That looks so cool. It might have been a failure but I respect the attempt to innovate.
Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing
Submitted 18 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 hours ago
I’m sure they’ll be back (the rollables). They seem better than flip phones, honestly.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
they still super duper do not like to bend.
It’s not 2023. no longer an issue.
reddig33@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 12 hours ago
Rolling phones?
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 hours ago
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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
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.