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| A smart Phone that can bend |
Mobile are static. It couldn’t bend. But a Chinese startup succeeded
in bending the smart phone.
Moxi Group, based in Chongqing, says it will ship 100,000 of
the devices in 2016. The phones, which will sell for about 5,000 yuan ($765) a piece,
are designed to be rolled into a bracelet and worn on the wrist. The touchscreens
work when curled up, or can be unfurled into rectangles to use just like any
other smart phone.
For now, the gadgets will only
feature black and white displays. with a colour version to follow later. Still,
that gives Moxi enough bragging rights to beat out other smartphone makers in
being first to release bendable products.
"Black and white phones are much easier to make," said Chongsheng Yu, Moxi's executive vice president. "The color model power usage is also much higher than that of the black and white unit. We'll sell in China and if there's demand overseas, we'll look into it."
The wobbly screens are based on
graphene technology, where carbon atoms are arranged in a specific pattern to
make them more conductive and resilient.
Instead of putting all the smartphone's parts behind the flexible screen, Moxi crammed the battery , processor and the other components into one end of the gadget.That enables the display to almost bend into a full circle. A key question is how good the screen will be.
