- Samsung’s bendable phone is called the ‘Cling Blend’.
- The phone features a flexible OLED screen and can be used as a smartphone or a smartwatch.
- Motorola’s Adaptive Display on the new bendable phone can bend into a variety of forms to fit different user needs.
The foldable smartphone segment is slowly becoming mainstream as more brands are adopting innovative designs. User adoption, though slowly, is surely on the rise and this induces confidence in brands to take things up a notch. To that extent, Samsung and Motorola took the ongoing MWC 2024 as a stage to show off the bendable phone designs. While we might not see these designs in mass production anytime soon, it gives us enough to be excited about the future.
Samsung bendable phone
- At the MWC 2024, Samsung introduced a bar-style phone that can bend and be worn on the wrist. The company is calling this ‘Cling Band’.
- The phone features a flexible OLED screen and can be used as a smartphone or a smartwatch.
- In its full-fledged form, the candy bar design looks like any other smartphone but with a thin form factor. There are no bezels on the front.
- We see a camera module on the rear alongside a heart rate monitor. The USB Type-C port and a loudspeaker are present on the bottom.
- There is a groove-like structure to support the flexible screen when the phone is bent.
- In its bent shape, the phone looks like a dome under the bridge. The heart rate sensor on the back panel can track heart rate and other health metrics when it’s bent.
As said, this is in the concept stage at the moment and is only meant to showcase the flexibility of the OLED screen from the Samsung Display division. Besides this, the company also showcased other concepts, including small circular screens on top of the wireless headphones and charging cases for TWS earbuds. This shows the charging levels, media that is being played, equalizer, audio modes, and other information.
Motorola bendable phone
Motorola unveiled its own version of the bendable phone at the MWC 2024. The Adaptive Display on the phone can apparently bend into a variety of forms to fit different user needs. One among them is the ability to wrap around the wrist. Motorola says that this first mode can pair with one of its AI-powered outfit-matching wallpapers.
We get a 6.9-inch pOLED screen and the Adaptive Display can bend the top half upward and this creates a curved 4.6-inch screen on your wrist. This makes it perfect for scrolling social feeds or video calls. The tent mode comes in handy if you want to watch videos on a tiny screen.
For better fit on hands, the back panel of the phone is covered in fabric. But similar to Samsung, the Motorola phone is still a concept model and we will never know if the company will ever have a working commercial model of the phone but we will be looking forward.
