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New Motorola concept is a phone that bends around your wrist

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By Kristijan Lucic
October 25, 2023
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Motorola has shown off a new concept phone during Lenovo Tech World ‘23, and this one bends around your wrist. It’s a smartphone hybrid of sorts, which acts as a bracelet or a smartwatch, if you will.

New Motorola concept is an odd phone that bends around your wrist

The star of the show here is a fullHD+ pOLED display. It can “be bent and shaped into different forms depending on users’ needs”, says the company. That display is actually the whole point of this concept, even though Motorola did include Android OS on this thing.

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This device was made basically just to highlight the display itself, and its possibilities. Motorola says that the display can serve as a regular display on a phone, and also wrist worn, or “positioned in several stand modes”.

This is a 6.9-inch panel, and when it’s laid flat, it runs “full Android experience”. It can also run a more compact form of full Android on a 4.6-inch display, when you bend it into a different shape. The company says that this experience is similar to what the cover display on the Motorola Razr+ offers.

Motorola phone concept wrist 2 2023

The company showed off something similar back in 2016

If you take a closer look at the device, you’ll notice that it has a fabric back. This does remind us of a device that Lenovo showed off back in 2016, but it does seem to be more advanced than that. That is not surprising, as it has been 7 years since then.

This particular device will not become available for purchase, not at all. This is just a concept to show off what the possibilities are. It remains to be seen if we’ll ever see something similar on the market, to be quite honest.

True, it can be bent to fit on a wrist, but it does look very odd still, and at this point in time, it’s difficult to imagine people actually wearing this. Who knows, though, perhaps the company will figure out a different form factor that works in such scenarios.