A few years ago we started talking about the LG Rollable Display, a very interesting project from a South Korean company that promised take the flexible screen concept to another levelthus clearly moving away from the approach taken by one of its main rivals, Samsung.

LG Rollable Display appeared as a high-end Android-based smartphone that used a flexible screen, but did not fold horizontally or vertically, but can be lengthened or shortened in seconds and fully automatic. The idea was quite attractive, but unfortunately LG decided to leave the smartphone sector in 2021 and this terminal did not make it to the market.

However, it seems that LG had some working prototypes of the LG Rollable Display and that one of them got its hands on a person who didn’t hesitate to share a video showing how the screen opening mechanism works. The truth is like this it has a futuristic touch for how well the system is solved and for the effect created by the screen enlargement. Thanks to this function, it is possible to turn the terminal into a small tablet in a few seconds.

The LG Rollable Display would be a very interesting terminal due to its design and new interpretation of the flexible screen concept. Also could benefit greatly from Android 12La version of Google’s well-known operating system for mobile devices that use flexible screens.

Will any company dare to launch a terminal inspired by the LG Rollable Display? It’s a question I couldn’t help but ask myself, and I think the answer is no, at least in the short to medium term. Perhaps in the future, when smartphones with flexible screens are democratized and production costs are lower, we will see a model with the original LG Rollable Display design, but this will not happen for a few years and at best.

It’s a shame that the LG Rollable Display didn’t make it to the market, it would have been an important turning point for the South Korean company would receive a “medal” for innovationalthough it is true that this terminal would not be enough to save LG from its fate in the smartphone sector, since its sales reached such a low level that it was unsustainable.