TCL company presented a Z-shaped and stretchable smartphones (6 photos)

Curved Screen Smartphone Marketexpands, and new players come out with original ideas. TCL company previously announced the technology of sliding smartphone in the form factor of the side slider and clamshell DragonHinge. Currently, TCL developers have shown two working prototype models with different ways of folding the screen: one model will be collapsed in the shape of the letter Z, and the second with the ability to stretch the screen hidden inside the case.

Given the existing smartphones on the market withwith bendable screens, the smartphone - the slider previously presented only in releases and patents is of more interest. The developers announced a model that, when folded, has a screen diagonal of 6.75 inches, and when stretched it increases the diagonal to 7.8 inches.

The demo video shows how flexibleThe OLED screen literally drives inside the case, and when unfolded, leaves back. At the same time, the process itself takes place automatically without the user applying forces using special engines.
Demonstrate the functioning prototypethe developers could not, because the only finished sample is in Wuhan, in the quarantine zone. Therefore, during the presentation, a layout without a screen and engines was shown.

The second device that bends along twolines and forms an impromptu letter Z, after layout gets a screen with a diagonal of 10 inches. Depending on the working conditions and user needs, you can work with one, two or all three planes. At the same time, a flexible smartphone can be fixed in various positions.

Currently, there is no information not about the price, not about the release time, not about the specific technical data of the device.