Can I bend your ear about flexible telephones?

Today at Lenovo Tech World ‘23, many things happened. There was a lot of talk about AI. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and his leather-based jacket have been there. There have been some celebrities I used to be most likely supposed to acknowledge. And Lenovo dusted off its bendable cellphone idea and let it out into the sunshine for almost two full minutes!

This model does appear extra superior than the one we noticed seven years in the past! We solely noticed that one go into snap-bracelet mode (with a frankly upsetting crunching noise), whereas the 2023 mannequin can do a pair extra poses, from the completely happy worm to a tented mode — which, if we’re feeling much less beneficiant, is admittedly simply an incomplete cuff mode.

Motorola’s new prototype has a pleasant orange cloth backing. When Valasek snapped it onto her wrist, she did so over what seemed like a watch however appears to be a clean steel sq. held on with a watchband. It may be magnetic and appears to be there to stop the cellphone cuff from flying off your wrist each time you progress your arm.

I additionally didn’t hear a crunch this time, which is reassuring. 

Valasek spent a couple of minute of the two-hour occasion speaking in regards to the idea and one other minute or two utilizing it to show some on-device wallpaper-generation function after which walked off. That’s nearly double the display time the final model obtained in 2016. 

Is the flexible cellphone going to occur? Probably not like this! A minute feels just like the candy spot proper earlier than “Oh, that’s cool” wears off and other people begin asking questions like “What happens if I rest my wrist on a table?” or “What happens if I move my arm too fast?” or “How would I take a call?” 

But it’s nonetheless good to see a remnant of that ol’ Moto spirit, and you may draw a fairly straight line between the folding tablet concept in Meghan McCarthy’s different hand within the video from 2016 to the Moto Razr Plus, an actual cellphone you should purchase at this time. That video, by the way, is stuffed with gems, from the reveal of the one and solely Google Tango machine to a prolonged dialogue of Moto Mods — could they relaxation in peace. 

We sit up for seeing the flexible cellphone once more at Tech World 2030.