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Flexible displays have been randomly shown off at a couple conferences recently, but none of them were as interactive as what I saw at Nokia World last week.
With Nokia’s Kinetic Bendable phone prototype you have a large flexible OLED display that you can bend at the center or around the edges, and can basically warp the shape of the device, with each bend or fold having a particular function. You can zoom in by bending it from the middle, or scroll through a list by bending it around the edges.
The large touchscreen slate in the image above, can also be bent to scroll through music or images. The screen resolution might just be WVGA but it has pretty awesome viewing angles. There’s no glass on the display though, because glass doesnt really bend, so its some sort of other covering which might be more prone to scratches.
It’s not perfect yet, since it’s a prototype and all, but its good stuff. Will it hit the market soon? Maybe. Is there any real practical use to bending your phone? Well, for one thing if you dropped your phone, it might still work fine. Or you could use your device without having to look at the display. If Nokia manage to ship a device like this, it might actually change the way you use your smartphone.
Here’s a video of it in action:
The other prototype that was also being shown off at the R&D stall, was a Nokia 700 with a hydrophobic coating, which basically acted like a water shield.
Using a “hydrophobic nanocoating”, there’s a layer of nanostructures which creates a very thin layer of air on the surface of the phone which in turn, prevents water from penetrating it. Water resistance for the win!
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