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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.
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I'm sure they'll be back (the rollables). They seem better than flip phones, honestly.
That looks so cool. It might have been a failure but I respect the attempt to innovate.
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.
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The motors make a surprising amount of noise when operating, so LG designed the phone to play a musical chime to hide the sound.
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This thing is so fucking cool. I'm surprised foldables survived but these didn't. I mean, I don't know what sort of technical hurdles something like this has, comparatively, but I really like the idea of a rollable screen versus a foldable one.
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That's the coolest phone I've seen. The engineering is very impressive
I would love to have a tablet that rolls up into a canister so I can scroll on a scroll. I don't know if they'll ever be more practical than rigid screens but the tech is very cool.
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Shame that we got foldable phones instead of this
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