New Delhi: Leading Chinese tech companies, Vivo and Transsion, have set their sights on releasing the world’s first rollable screen smartphone, intensifying rivalry to reshape the smartphone business. Vivo and Transsion Holdings plan to release its roll-screen smartphone in 2024, which will undoubtedly shake up the global smartphone industry.
This front-line technology promises to radically alter how we use mobile devices by introducing groundbreaking new capabilities.
Very little information has been made public concerning the nature of this partnership. Experts in the field, however, believe that it will be radically different from smartphones of the past. Recently, Transition introduced a roll-screen idea phone called the Techno Phantom Ultimate, which is a subsidiary of the company’s well-known domination in the African mobile industry.
The rollable-screen phone Techno Phantom Ultimate was released by Transsion in September 2022. Vivo released the Vivo X-Fold in April, marking the company’s entry into the foldable smartphone market.
These Chinese smartphone makers are considering entering the rollable phone market. There have been reports that both Vivo and Transsion Holdings are developing slideable smartphones for release in 2024. In the battle to market the first rollable smartphone, Vivo and Transsion are widely predicted to beat Samsung to market.
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The rollable handsets’ displays will be partly extended and may be fully expanded or contracted at the touch of a button.
Last year, Transsion Holdings—the parent company of Itel, Tecno, and Infinix—displayed a prototype of its Phantom Ultimate with a rollable display. The phone’s 6.55-inch screen begins to enlarge to 7.11 inches with the press of a button, giving it the appearance of a small tablet. CSOT’s low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) rollable thin-film transistor (TFT) display was found in the Tecno Phantom Ultimate. The 7.11-inch screen had a pixel density of 388ppi and a resolution of 1,596×2,296.
This Tecno Phantom Ultimate concept rollable phone can expand from 6.55″ to 7.11″ in just around 1.2 to 1.3 seconds!
The display is an on-cell OLED panel with LTPO technology and it is very thin, at just under 10 mm.
Sadly, it is only a concept for now. pic.twitter.com/TuLIKNop5I
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Motorola, Samsung, LG, and TCL are just some of the other major phone manufacturers that have recently introduced competing ideas. Oppo has also conceptualised a rollable smartphone with a 6.7-inch screen that expands to a 7.4-inch small tablet.