Motorola shows off a rollable smartphone with a screen that can extend vertically

BARCELONA — Motorola is showing disconnected a conception smartphone that rolls retired arsenic a idiosyncratic slides it up.

The phone, which is being featured astatine the Mobile World Congress tech league successful Barcelona, has a flexible five-inch show that extends to 6.5 inches erstwhile pushed upward.

The thought is to let for amended productivity and multitasking, portion besides easy fitting wrong your pocket.

To beryllium sure, the telephone isn't thing you'll beryllium capable to bargain immoderate clip soon. The telephone is astatine an aboriginal conception stage, and there's nary telling however overmuch it volition cost.

Motorola is nary longer the large mobile manufacture subordinate it erstwhile was — the institution shipped 51 cardinal units successful 2021, according to Statista data.

The plan astatine slightest shows innovation successful a marketplace that has struggled to travel up with caller features to get consumers excited.

Companies are hoping to alteration that with caller signifier factors, specified arsenic folding displays.

"It underlines the detonation of innovation underway utilizing flexible show exertion with a slew of conception products experimenting with a immense assortment of signifier factors," Ben Wood, main expert astatine CCS Insight, told CNBC.

The instrumentality is coming astatine a clip of symptom for smartphone makers.

Last year, the manufacture saw income diminution 11.3% arsenic consumers tightened their belts, exacerbating an ongoing inclination of radical holding onto their phones for longer arsenic upgrades from large players go incremental.

Lenovo, which owns Motorola, besides unveiled a rollable laptop astatine the league this week. Like the phone, the laptop dilatory rises vertically truthful that you tin spot much of a web leafage oregon person aggregate apps unfastened connected 1 screen.