The foldable smartphone is an old concept!
At a time when smartphone makers are thinking of bringing foldable devices, Guangdong-headquartered TCL Corporation is also making a phone with a slide-out screen. The device will feature an extendable screen that you can turn into a tablet.
"TCL is working on a phone that has a slide-out display instead of the one you can bend in halves like the Galaxy Z Flip and Motorola Razr. The point? To give you as much screen space as a tablet without having to carry one around," CNET reported on Monday.
Based on images that CNET obtained, this concept phone looks like a standard phone, which then turns it into a tablet after you've pulled out the screen.
A working prototype of the phone was slated to debut next week before concern for the Coronavirus resulted in a cancelled Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020.
According to reports, when viewed from the back, the extended portion of the TCL's phone would have its own (non-glass) backing to support the display.
It looks like the right (extended) side is a hair slimmer than the left, so there's room to house the sliding portion of the device, the report added.
