TCL, one of the most popular TV & home appliance brand, was supposed to have its presence in Mobile World Congress 2020 before it got canceled. TCL was supposed to showcase a new smartphone concept featuring a sliding screen. It’s something that could’ve immediately overshadowed Samsung and Motorola’s folding phones.
Images of TCL’s concept sliding phone surfaced. Judging from the leaked images, TCL is using some proprietary mechanism to hide and extend the extra display.
Renders clearly show the display extends to the right but doesn’t explain how does it correctly fold and hide the rest of the screen. TCL’s sliding phone appears to be using a quad-camera setup, which is commonly found on flagships. The camera setup is indeed a step-up compared to foldable devices from Samsung, which only sports two cameras.
It’s not to say that this type of technology hasn’t been previously achieved. LG has been pushing its rollable OLED TVs in the market for quite a while. What’s revolutionary about TCL’s implementation is shrinking the from an 80-inch to your typical 6.7″ smartphone size. The technology would also solve the crease problem that foldable phones have.
Despite issues that surround foldable smartphones, especially with the Galaxy Z Flip’s “glass,” TCL is one step ahead in the industry with this new smartphone concept. Let’s hope that it’ll come to the market sooner than later.
In the meantime, you can check out our first impressions of the Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy S20 series.
