vivo patents vertically rollable smartphone | Infinium-tech
Rollable smartphone concepts have come and gone over the years, but we have yet to see any actual products using rollable displays (though, laptops with rollable screens already exist).
While the rollable smartphone concepts we’ve seen so far have all juxtaposed the screen out to the side, Vivo has patented something else entirely – a rollable screen that gets taller, not wider.
The Vivo rollable device featured in the patent application becomes taller as you roll out the screen, which is certainly interesting to see, yet we can’t help but wonder what the real use cases would be for something like this.
Apps are already quite well optimized for tall screens these days, so what would actually be gained by making the screen even taller? However, don’t pay too much attention to these questions, because this is just a patent application – it’s not even a concept (yet?).
And it’s really unclear whether it will ever reach that level — smartphone makers file for a lot of patents that they never actually use, and we wouldn’t be surprised if this was one of them.
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