There’s a new smartphone to put on your wrist (like a bracelet)

A bizarre idea but not at all absurd. The Motorola bendable (foldable) is the first smartphone that can put on your wrist like a bracelet. This prototype, still in a development phase, however, stimulates an interesting debate on the future of wearable devices.

It seems like an object from the future but we touched it firsthand at the event Lenovo Tech World ’23 which recently took place in the United States where the phone was shown publicly for the first time. A fully functional concept phone and with intriguing aesthetics.

When extended it looks like a traditional smartphone with a large 6.9-inch displaybut the plastic screen can also be folded by doing take on the product different shapes. The originality of this product is in fact mainly linked to its versatility. Instead of remaining in your pocket or left on a table, the device can be folded in two displaying information on both sides, but also placed upright on a shelf and even put on the wrist as we have seen done, for the moment, they are in science fiction film.

The innovation is not just about the foldable display, the Motorola bendableas it is technically defined, also uses artificial intelligence which allows the software to dynamically change information shown on the screen depending on how it is folded and the mode of use we choose.

“Our “adaptive display concept” allows you to expand the possibilities of use of this smartphone by going beyond the typical experience of foldable products such as the Motorola razr. It is still a prototype but it helps us imagine the possible evolutions of portable devices that will arrive in the future”, he tells us Lexi ValasekProduct Research Lead at Motorola Mobility.

Precisely artificial intelligence will allow the next phones to be very simpler, more powerful and aesthetically appealing. For example, as happens with this Motorola, just take a picture of our clothing to get in real time an image to use as a smartphone wallpaper, perfectly matched to how we are dressed.

The AI ​​will also allow you to perform other small magic, for example just use the Mobile Doc Scan function to obtain the perfect image of a document even if the sheet is wrinkled, with one click the creases disappear. One click is always enough to automatically eliminate all private information or sensitive data from a text to be able to share it on social networks while protecting our privacy. With AI Text Summarizationyou can also reduce long chats, emails or very detailed and complex texts into a few lines and key messages.

The technological evolutions linked to the development of the screens that will be possible fold, roll or extend along with advances in artificial intelligence that will change both the graphical interface and software features, will make the phones of the future quite different from the ones we use today. It is a very close time horizon as Motorola demonstrates bandablea revolution that could already arrive within 4/5 years.