An LG patent gives new information about the roll-up smartphone that the brand is soon to launch. This includes how the brand plans to implement an external screen, as well as, for the first time, an overview of the arrangement of photo sensors.
Credits: Let’s Go Digital
As we enter theera of flexible-screen smartphones,manufacturers are exploring different implementations. We’ve seen several manufacturers try the experience of foldable smartphones, like Samsung with the Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Galaxy Z Flip or with the latest Motorola RAZR. But much crazier concepts are in the works. For several weeks we talk about LG’s future rollable smartphone, the LG Rollable, which the brand briefly showed on the sidelines of CES 2021. However, for now we do not know much about the smartphone, except that its main screen can unfold to deliver a surface equivalent to that of a tablet.
So we have nothing official at the moment on its technical sheet or on its features. A patent spotted by our colleagues at Let’s Go Digital, however, seems to lift a corner of the veil. The patent describes what could be the back of the smartphone. While at the front we would have a screen with ultra-thin borders not to say non-existent, the rear screen will have relatively thick borders,and will not be completely rectangular, since a cutout will reveal the camera’s photo sensors. This screen is in solidarity with one of the sliding sides of the smartphone – opposite that of the photo sensors.
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This means that when the main screen is fully unrolled, the secondary screen will move away from the photo sensors. By the way, this is the very first time we see the back of what could be the LG Rollable, and LG describes in passing the arrangement of its system of photo sensors. On the face of it, according to the few images LG showed us, no selfie sensor is planned, and everything would happen around the triple rear sensor arranged vertically. The precise composition of the set remains a mystery at this stage, but it is easy to speculate that there will be a wide angle sensor, ultra wide angle and a telephoto lens.
Source: Let’s Go Digital
