Will be awesome when they make it work, although I expect it's years off yet. The problem's the glass - even super thin, ultra strong gorilla glass has limits to how far you can bend it before it breaks. When they can make super strong, super flexible, scratch resistant, polymer based screens, with no glass involved, then maybe.
It reminds me of the abandoned Microsoft Courier concept, and that's mighty fine with me!
Looks pretty good to me, not worried about the bulk - I'm sure that'll be addressed before it's commercially available. For me the bigger concern would be how well it copes with repetitive opening/closing cycles. I'd worry about fatigue stresses building up. Overall though, I'm very impressed so far. Going to be at least a couple of years before I think about upgrading my OnePlus, maybe by then I'll be switching to a foldable Samsung...
That'd be 2 screens though - they'd never line up perfectly every time, there'd be a noticeable line, you couldn't swipe seamlessly, etc, etc. Would be a poor mans foldable screen.
The 'bulk' was the box they put the device in as they don't want to reveal its full form factor yet.
I think in a few years time when you show a kid a Samsung 9 or iPhone, they'll be confused why it doesn't open up.
Geometry dictates design in this instance. Assuming one wants to start off with a traditional, modern phone format - rectangular, roughly 2:1 ratio - then making it fold out will produce a square. If you wanted to result in a 16:9 format, you'd need to start with 16:4.5 or 8:9 - either bizarrely long & thin or strangely square, neither of which are likely to be big sellers...
Ditto. I love the idea, but suspect the teething years to be long. I've no plans to replace my current phone for at least 2 or 3 years. Maybe by then the technology will be mature. Or failing that it'll have gone the same way as Google Glass...
