Lenovo is holding its annual Tech World event in Austin, Texas this week, and as part of its keynote presentation on Tuesday, it briefly showed off a smartphone concept device that includes a fully flexible display.
As posted on the company"s website, Lenovo and its Motorola subsidiary have been working on this flexible phone concept. It has a FHD+ pOLED display and can be bent and folded into many different positions for different uses.
Lenovo stated:
The adaptive display concept can be adjusted from a standard Android phone experience in a flat position to being wrapped for a wrist-worn experience or positioned in several stand modes. When laid flat, the 6.9″ display runs a full Android experience, just like any smartphone. In the upright position, the device can be adjusted into a self standing position, running a more compact form of full Android on a 4.6″ display. Users can also wrap the device around their wrist for a similar experience to the external display on motorola razr+ to stay connected while on the go.
All of that sounds cool, and it is, until you realize that Lenovo has been showing off similar smartphone concepts with flexible displays since at least 2017 with the Cplus. It even showed off an idea for a Lenovo Thinkpad notebook with a flexible display in the same year.
At least Lenovo actually released a notebook with a foldable display, the ThinkPad X1 Fold PC, in 2020. Motorola also revived its Razr smartphone brand a few years ago with a foldable display as well. However, the company has yet to release a phone with the kind of multi-position features that it has been showing off at tech shows for the past several years. Lenovo has not stated if this latest concept device will actually be mass-produced for the public.
Lenovo also talked about how it is developing an AI model that can be run locally on smartphones, which it calls MotoAI. It states:
Users can engage with their personal MotoAI assistant to answer questions, draft messages, schedule tasks, and so much more. While most LLMs run cloud-based operations, MotoAI can process data and run tasks locally on-device. which offers users enhanced data privacy. MotoAI also features an on-device knowledge base where the user’s patterns and preferences inform their experience, making it more dynamic, personal, and helpful over time.
Again there"s no word on on when MotoAI will become available on Lenovo"s Motorola phones.