As other leading smartphone makers are perfecting devices with vertically or horizontally folding screens, recently published patent information suggests Cupertino might take a different route. A patent...

As other leading smartphone makers are perfecting devices with vertically or horizontally folding screens, recently published patent information suggests Cupertino might take a different route. A patent for “electronic devices with rollable displays” filed last October and published on July 13 references a device with a display that could be moved between an unrolled state where it is planar and a rolled state for storage.

  • Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    What In the hell do we need rollable phones for? So you can roll it up like Newspaper and shove it in your pocket??

  • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    For frack’s sake… All I want is a phone with a battery that lasts for over a day. I’d also like my headphone jack back, but really, I just want a mega-battery.

    • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Considering the new EU regulation requiring removable batteries, depending on how it’s done by companies I’m thinking therea a decent chance you could get an extra large battery that can connect to it, then have a custom backing to close it. BRING THE DAYS OF THE BRICK BACK

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Are they gonna make them like those rollable flip-bracelet things like what kids have? So you just wear your phone as your wrist watch when you’re not using it, then unroll it when you want to talk on the phone or read your screen? Or will we carry them around like scrolls and parchment and unfurl our phones when we want to do anything? We’ll look like magicians, it might actually be kind of sweet.

  • moog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    i have to imagine this is less for an “iScroll” of some kind and more for wearable tech.