New Leaks Suggest That LG Is Working On A Rollable Mobile That Will Arrive In 2021
LG is one of the companies that, for now, have not joined folding mobile phones. Until today, only Samsung , Huawei , Motorola and Royole have opted for this technology, while LG has preferred to keep conventional mobiles with a double screen as an accessory. However, new leaks suggest that the Korean firm is working on a mobile that is not foldable, but rollable .
The information comes from the Korean medium The Elec, which cites sources within the company and ensures that LG is going to launch a rollable smartphone at the beginning of next year . The name of this project, he says, is "B Project" and the name of the mobile itself, "Rainbow". Evidently, this device has already in the prototyping phase at the Pyeongtaek factory.
According to the Korean media, the phone screen can be extended to one side when necessary . Thus, the screen will be rolled up on the terminal's chassis, something similar to what TCL showed some time ago . Therefore, the panel will be OLED, since it is the technology that allows the screen to bend. This would be being developed by LG together with the well-known manufacturer BOE.
It is not the first time that this roller device has been mentioned. Already in 2019 LetsGoDigital commented that LG had a screen to make a roll-up mobile that, all said, had little or nothing to do with the one shown by TCL. Instead, the terminal would be a block and the screen would pop out to the side . It is not a mobile that we "stretch", but a device from which we extract a screen.
LG has experience with extendable displays
More recently, at the beginning of June, another patent appeared in which, this time, the device has a conventional screen that we can expand to one side and even fold inwards , thus turning it into a kind of miniature laptop. Be that as it may, they are still patents, and they do not necessarily have to show the final design of a product.
What cannot be ignored is that LG has experience developing panels that roll and fold . Already in 2014 LG showed a first advance of this technology; at CES 2018 he took it further by creating a 65-inch panel with 4K resolution and at CES 2019 he launched the Signature OLED TV 65R9 , the first rollable TV on the market.
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