Perhaps it starts from feature phones to smart phones, and in the future, the mobile phone form is destined to fall into a bottleneck.
A few years ago, Brother Dong still had an impression that mobile phone manufacturers have made great efforts to design smartphone styling in order to innovate and sell their products.
For example, the LG G5 released in 2016 can "change your chin" by itself and can be replaced with the camera and audio playback module.
Source: Network
Motorola Moto Z series, through the metal contacts on the back of the mobile phone, it can magnetically fit the official function expansion module.
has photography modules, music modules, projection modules and power modules , etc., and in general, it is still relatively practical.
Source: Internet
However, when smartphones are rolling in the image and performance track, the fancy appearance design is put on hold.
Until the two tracks above can no longer be rolled up, the manufacturer has set his sights on the mobile phone screen again, wanting to play new tricks here.
, friends should guess what Brother Dong is going to say. That's right, it's the "folding screen" , which is very popular now.
folding screen has developed relatively maturely. At present, many manufacturers have launched mass-produced products. If you have bought them, you can take a look at them.
But Brother Dong found that mobile phone manufacturers are not idle. The new generation of "reel screen" track is coming soon!
Motorola reel screen new machine
This is right, Brother Dong has seen a big news these two days, Motorola shows off his muscles in the screen form of the mobile phone.
, at the Lenovo Tech World 2022 conference, Motorola showed off its own new reel screen concept machine.
looks like this. Do you think the proportion is not right? Why is the phone still a little flat?
Source: Lenovo Tech World 2022 Conference
This reel machine is a bit special. Other machines either expand in the left and right directions, but it just expands from .
is the shape of its completely expanded. From this perspective, it is actually not much different from the current regular straight-board mobile phones.
Source: Lenovo Tech World 2022 Conference
Mobile phone screen is 5 inches, press the button to expand and shrink vertically, expand to 6.5 inches after fully expanding.
Let me give you a rough example. Your phone can convert sizes from iPhone mini to Pro Max like that.
Judging from the demonstration video, this scroll screen phone has a very high completion, and Motorola specially made telescopic dynamic wallpaper.
Currently, this scroll screen belongs to the concept machine . The official has no mass production plan yet. Those who want to buy it have to wait.
Source: Lenovo Tech World 2022 Conference
From this wave of longitudinal telescopic scroll screen, it is not difficult for us to see that Motorola's ideas are obviously different from other manufacturers.
Other manufacturers reel screens are horizontally retracted to switch between mobile phones and tablets to highlight the "large" area.
while Motorola focuses on mobile phones, with the purpose of allowing mobile phones to switch between screen sizes according to their usage.
There is no right or wrong in the two ideas. The main reason is that the manufacturer arranges according to the positioning of the mobile phone. Do you want to make a "big screen" mobile phone or a "small screen" mobile phone?
reel machine and these
Speaking of this, Brother Dong also took everyone to open their eyes and take stock of the reel machines that have been unveiled now.
The most well-known one should be OPPO X 2021 reel screen concept machine released in 2020.
Normal screen is 6.7 inches, slide the right side of the screen, and fully expand it can become a "tablet" with a 7.4-inch screen.
Source: OPPO Official website
OPPO has also made some optimizations for the stretched shape of the screen to give full play to the advantages of large screens.
For example, the text will change with the screen retracting, and the input method will become a full keyboard for easy typing in the form of a "flatablet".
setting interface will be displayed in left and right options and content. Watching videos will also automatically adjust the screen size according to the screen ratio.
Source: OPPO Official website
Brother Dong saw the news, it is said that OPPO is also developing a new scroll screen mobile phone that is positioned as a high-end price of 10,000 yuan.
Perhaps as soon as next year, we will see OPPO's commercial scroll screen mobile phone.
Source: Weibo @Digital Chat Station
Last year TCL "reel screen + folding screen" sewing monster phone, also left a deep impression on Brother Dong.
As the name suggests, the screen of this phone can be folded and retracted, which is what I want.
The screen can be fully expanded and can be turned into a 10-inch tablet form. This is also the first mobile phone in the computer circle of this form.
Since the mobile phone contains two forms of mechanical structures, it is estimated that only , Kirin arm, can hold on to it after playing for a long time.
Source: @Fold Universe
This year TCL also launched the above folding + reel screen successor: 60-degree Ultra Flex.
The same effect is that the screen is a little smaller. The machine is 7 inches in normal state, and it fully expands to 8.8 inches.
Source: Android Central
In addition to the two interesting scroll screens above, Brother Dong also noticed that some manufacturers have relevant patent authorizations.
For example, last year, Apple obtained a "Electronic Device with Flexible Display Structure" patent (11044822).
Source: Internet
, vivo also has similar patents, submitted in May 2021 and announced on December 2.
From the patent diagram, it should be similar to the horizontal expansion plan as its own good brother green factory.
Source: 91 mobiles
At the end of last year, Xiaomi also obtained a patent license for "folding mechanism, curling screen structure and electronic equipment" .
Source: Network
There is always a reason for it to be late
The problem is coming. So many big manufacturers are doing patents. Why is the scroll screen a big shot slower than the folding screen?
In fact, after all, it has a lot to do with the nature of the scroll screen itself. Let’s take a look at it below.
First of all, service life . Currently, the folding screen hinge can reach 200,000 times, but the scroll screen seems to have no data yet.
It is estimated that manufacturers are still in the testing stage and cannot rashly launch a scroll horn with a low service life.
Source: IT Home
Another point is that the scroll screen is different from the folding screen. cannot apply film and install a mobile phone case, and mobile phone protection is greatly reduced.
If you accidentally slip your hand, a mobile phone worth ten thousand yuan will likely need GG, and the maintenance cost will be difficult to bear.
and The design of the internal space of the scroll screen . How to put a bunch of hardware is more suitable, it also tests the manufacturer's design skills.
Finally, it looks like flagship phones are equipped with waterproof and dustproof , and the current scroll screen phones also take a certain amount of time to overcome them.
So, it is better to say that the starting stage is more appropriate than the starting stage.
On the one hand, some manufacturers have launched concept machines; on the other hand, many manufacturers are also following up urgently.
I just don’t know if you are interested in scroll screen mobile phones? Why not come to the comment section and chat with Brother Dong.
