Motorola wants you to wear its new flexible smartphone around your wrist like a slap bracelet. See how the concept works.
- Motorola unveiled a concept for a smartphone you can wear on your wrist like a big slap bracelet.
- The "adaptive display" concept can also be folded multiple ways to stand upright, like a standard phone.
Most people these days always have their phones on their person at all times, but what if you could quite literally have your phone on your person?
Motorola showed off its new concept for a smartphone that you can wear like a slap bracelet on your wrist at the annual Lenovo Tech World event held this week.
The phone is an "adaptive display concept" that can be "bent and shaped into different forms depending on users' needs," the company said in a press release Tuesday.
When flat, the phone's 6.9-inch screen "runs a full Android experience." Folded into a self-standing upright position, the phone runs "a more compact form of full Android" on a 4.6-inch display. And of course, it can also be slapped onto your wrist like a (very, very large) watch for hands-free use on the go.
There are some reasonable questions to be asked about just how feasible a wrist-phone would be. Does it feel like it's weighing down your wrist after a while? How many flips and bends can the phone withstand before breaking? How would you even put a case on this thing (or make a case to begin with)?
Since the phone is just a concept right now, we don't have pricing or even know if the phone will ever actually become available.
Motorola's new concept isn't the first bendy phone we've seen. Lenovo, which owns Motorola, had another concept for a phone you could wrap around your wrist at its Tech World event in 2016. Also that year, a Chinese startup called Moxi Group said it was working on a phone that could fully loop around your wrist like a bracelet. To date, neither of those have hit the market.
Flip phones at least seem to be more viable options for now. They've been eyeing a comeback thanks to launches in recent years of phones like the Motorola razr+, Google Pixel Fold, and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5.