Samsung now has a model that you can wear on your wrist
Samsung, a leading South Korean technology company, was instrumental in the introduction of foldable phones for commercial use. Samsung’s Display business is developing a revolutionary form factor that will enable users to bend the phone onto their wrist and wear it like a watch, while competitors are catching up.
Samsung unveiled a concept phone at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in 2024. Known as the ‘Cling Band with OLED’ concept phone, it has a reversible design and functions as an easily attachable smart bracelet.
What Is Samsung’s New Concept Smart Phone About?
In addition to the flexible display, Samsung has created a rollable frame that bears resemblance to the Pangolin. Additionally, the manufacturer has made sure that when the wrist is rolled over, the battery and other parts stay in place.
The Cling Band is the name of the bending phone prototype that Samsung Display unveiled at the exhibition. Depending on the application, it can be used as a smartwatch or a smartphone thanks to its flexible OLED screen.
When in candy bar mode, the gadget has a tiny form factor, a front screen without bezels, and a rear camera that make it look like any other smartphone. It also has a loudspeaker on the bottom and a USB Type-C connection. When the device is bent, a structure that resembles a groove supports the flexible screen.
The phone resembles a dome under a bridge when it is twisted. It has a heart rate monitor and a camera on the back. It can therefore track your heart rate and other health indicators while worn on the wrist. Currently only a concept, it aims to highlight Samsung Display’s OLED panels’ adaptability.
The issue with this idea is that the gadget can only record a portion of your health data at all times because it cannot capture other metrics, such as your heart rate, when you’re using it as a phone. It would also be quite uncomfortable to wear when you are sleeping.
The foldable design allows for a more significant screen size when needed whilst also functioning as a regular smartphone with a larger display. This device aims to combine the portability of a wrist-worn device with the extended screen real estate of a smartphone.
This would offer you the best of both worlds, as a watch for basic tasks as well as for you to engage in immersive activities like multimedia consumption or productivity tasks. Therefore, the foldable design allows for a more versatile user experience.
Other Concept Phone On The Market v Samsung’s Pick
Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept Phone
Not content to just create and release the amazing 12S Ultra, Xiaomi’s brilliant scientists have managed to create a functional 12S Ultra Concept. It’s a smartphone that can take different Leica M lenses. You know, the real lenses that were fitted onto real Leica cameras. those eyepieces. The extra one-inch, 50.3MP sensor in the centre of the idea model’s camera array makes it all feasible.
Motorola Rizr
Motorola’s smartphone, the Rizr, which has an expanding and rollable screen, created quite a stir at CES 2023. The Rizr concept completely does away with the folding design as an alternative to phones that fold, such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Motorola’s own folding Razr. Instead, it uses a partially rolled-up OLED panel that extends when a built-in mechanism raises it upward. If you want a smaller display, you reverse the procedure, and its true utility is debatable.
Motorola Adaptive Display
Motorola, a company owned by Lenovo, improved upon the idea of an Adaptive Display in 2023. You can wear this wearable phone-meeting device like a watch by wrapping it around your wrist. Rollable smartphone displays are not a new concept to be experimented with by Motorola.
Actually, LG had a design for a rollable smartphone even before it formally shut down its phone division in 2021. However, Oppo also unveiled the Oppo X 2021, a concept rollable phone, that same year.
Conclusion
The swift progress of technology has led to inventive developments such as concept smartphones, particularly those intended to be worn as wrist watches. The incorporation of state-of-the-art functionality into small, wearable designs is indicative of a dynamic movement in customer tastes and lifestyle requirements as companies endeavour to redefine the traditional limits of mobile devices.
This trend highlights how important portability and convenience are. The idea that watches are smartphones opens up exciting new possibilities for research and development in the rapidly evolving field of technology, erasing distinctions between utility, style, and connectivity.
