TCL Interaction, one of the fastest-growing TV brand names in the United States, now desires its own slice of the phone market– and it’s not scared to push the envelope to get it.
The business took the wraps off 2 collapsible gadget concepts, various from the one it showed at CES 2020 The first has a tri-fold display; believe the triple-folded paper sales brochure you get at state parks, except change the paper with a phone. It is among the first principles we’ve seen with 2 separate hinge mechanisms working at the same time, converting a 6.65- inch phone into a 10- inch tablet.
I got a chance to experiment with a prototype. It feels very rough around the edges– specifically, it’s stiff and tough to unfold– however the device veritably went from a traditional-looking phone into an iPad-like tablet. You can likewise fold one-third of the screen away for the times you do not need the maximum offered amount of screen area. I can easily see myself unfolding this in a coffee bar and taking out a slim Bluetooth keyboard to type up some words rather of carrying around a laptop.
Unfortunately with a lot folding going on it, it’s a really thick phone– around the chunkiness of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, if not more. It’s not terribly enjoyable to use one-handed.
That’s why the 2nd concept is a little more fascinating. It’s not precisely a collapsible phone, rather a phone with a “rollable” screen, as TCL puts it. It looks just like a normal smartphone with a 6.75- inch screen, however amazingly, you can pull on the right edge of