A Chinese company announces a folding phone

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's first-generation mobile phone maker, Moxi, today announced the launch of the world's first slimmable and bendable smartphone that can be worn on wrist for sale later this year. Moxi, a new Chonquing company, plans to ship 100,000 copies By the end of this year, which will cost about 5,000 yuan, equivalent to 520 pounds sterling, and the device will have a very thin, ultra-thin design with a narrow screen and a large battery at the bottom.

The world's first bendable phone

According to the pictures published by Moxi, the new phone will be able to bend to a closed circuit and allow the user to wear a bracelet or watch around the wrist. It is equipped with a screen made of graphene, a futuristic material developed for the first time in the UK and is light, thin and energy efficient.

Flexible phones for the future

According to the British independent newspaper, flexible smartphones have been developed by university researchers or concepts through major electronics companies, none of which has been translated into reality. The new Moxi will be the world's first smart phone to be worn Available to consumers.

But although the phone is a great achievement in the first place, it will not be the same quality and design as the promotional images, because the screen will be black and white because of the electronic ink, Chongsheng YU, the company's executive vice president, told Bloomberg. For future users.

Companies operating on curved phones

Industry giants such as Samsung have been working on flexible screens for years, but this technology has not yet appeared in their consumer products.