Microsoft Phone: Bend, Fold, and Wear
Since I first wrote about the possibility of the Microsoft Surface Phone here and here, it seems as if Microsoft is inventing and patenting various folding technologies whereby an OLED screen tin unfold into a large screen phone or tablet.
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This is nothing new as shown on this page of images. Samsung has shown prototypes of a cute "folds like a book" telephone. Microsoft once showed a "folds like a book" laptop that was never released. So nosotros tin can assume something that folds will be with us soon.
But what actually intrigues me is something I saw at a trade prove 3 years agone. It was a flexible LCD brandish that took the form of a bracelet. It wrapped around the wrist and was going to exist a fully functional phone that connected to the user via some Bluetooth lash-upwards.
There was something nerdy-cool near the matter. It was just a sparse piece of plastic and very light. It has more appeal than a ho-hum traditional looking wrist lookout man. Information technology had a lot of potential.
For the purpose of this article I'll call it a cuff phone. Merely imagine the iPhone as a thin sheet of OLED fabric that would wrap around your wrist with the microelectronics of the Apple lookout man.
Since the things would be an adornment it could exist designed to put on a fancy light show-type display when not being used. Perfect for parties. The display patterns could be adult by artists and sold similar ringtones. Both moving and stationary displays would be available. The display fine art could exist a topic of chat.
The gage phone would be a device that replaced the clunky candy bar telephone, the Apple Watch, fifty-fifty jewelry.
This sort of device would crave a slight cultural shift. But the smartphone showed how easy that tin can be, one time it catches on.
Which brings me back to the Microsoft Surface Phone. Could it be something radically dissimilar like the cuff phone? How will it incorporate some flexible or folding engineering science?
For some reason several news outlets are predicting that these technologies will be used in some sort of Microsoft notepad. They are not fully subscribed to the idea that Microsoft volition return to the phone market using the classic withdraw-and-return model of progress.
The company knows that mobile devices are the futurity of computing. I'grand assuming that in the background Redmond is going all-out to re-enter the market with something special.
In the past, Microsoft has dropped the brawl because the corporate civilization internally rejects people who say annihilation negative well-nigh any new product or idea. Hence yous see a lot of bad or poorly executed ideas.
The best recent example of this was the curt-lived Microsoft Kin, a telephone specifically designed for interacting with social networks. It was a smartphone with a keyboard that was never promoted properly and dumped after only one year.
So Microsoft might suffer from stage fright when it comes to bringing out something radical like a cuff phone. But one matter is for certain, based on these patents, something is afoot. And information technology folds.
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Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/apple-watch-series-3/18843/microsoft-phone-bend-fold-and-wear
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