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The First Phone You Can Actually Bend: LG's G Flex

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-in-case-you-want-to-use-your-phone-as-a-slingshot dept.

iONiUM writes "As a follow up to LG's announcement of mass flexible OLED production, and as a competitor to the limited Samsung Round trial which was only available in Korea on SK Telecom, LG has released the G Flex phone which is curved vertically (instead of the Round's horizontal bend, which many thought was the 'wrong way'). In addition, the G Flex can actually be flexed, as shown in the video in the article."

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  1. It's on it's way from Apple, mark my words! by xevioso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soon you will pull out a small device, the same size as an iphone, but with two tubes at either end. And on a whim, you will unroll these tubes, revealing a large horizontal screen, where you can read your internets!

    BEHOLD!!! Cometh soon the iSCROLL! For all your iPapyrus needs!

  2. Re:All phones can be flexed by quenda · · Score: 4, Funny

    But will it blend?

  3. Re:Why would you want to? by iONiUM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I honestly I think this, like the Samsung Round, is a "shot in the market" to see what people want. Basically Korean makers now have flexible screens, but can't (yet) make fully flexible phones, so they're just sort of coming up with random phones to see where the interest lies.

    It's basically early alpha editions of what will eventually be fully flexible phones. That's my take, anyways, from visiting Korea and seeing this stuff.

  4. I remember having a bendable phone by TsuruchiBrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    From like 2004 to 2011 I had a phone that I had to bend in half to answer.