Many, many years in development already, Motorola’s Adaptive Display Concept, aka ‘the bendy phone’, might be a glimpse at the new normal for phones
Concept devices can often be ‘vapourware’ and never arrive on the market, but Motorola’s flexible smartphone might well be the future of the smartphone form factor.
I checked it out at MWC 2024 in Barcelona this week, and while there are some aspects I like, there are others I’m definitely not looking for in a smartphone.
Although concepts are good and bad for various reasons, which I won’t get into here, they do offer a potential look at what’s to come in the years ahead. Motorola’s Adaptive display concept is futuristic, if nothing else.
It’s really a flexible phone and is commonly known in tech circles as the ‘bendy phone’.
As with many concept devices, the firm is light on details, saying only that it has a Full HD+ pOLED display and runs a “a full Android experience, just like any smartphone”. There’s also a camera in a punch-hole notch for which we don’t know the specs.
That’s not really the point though, it’s what this gymnastic gadget can do that’s important. We’ve seen plenty of pOLED panels in foldable phones including Motorola’s Razr series but the Adaptive display concept bends the other way.
