Motorola Bends a Phone, and Debuts Smart Connect

 Late last year at Lenovo’s Tech World event, Motorola unveiled a bendable concept phone called the Adaptive Display. I got a chance to play around with it at MWC. It looks and feels like its Razr folding phone, except instead of having a hinge that snaps the phone closed precisely in half, you can bend the whole thing backward.

https://www.gadgetmatch.com/motorola-bendable-phone-concept/

It can rest on a table in this arched position, enabling two people sitting across from each other to use the screen. For example, two people can watch a movie together; I watched two people play a quick game of Connect 4. There’s also a magnetic band you can wear that the phone clips to—wrap the device over your wrist and now you have a smart bracelet (of sorts). The interface adapts to show information on the top part of the screen. It’s fun and wacky, but I have to admit it looks quite janky.

Last year’s concept phone from Motorola was Rizr, which had a screen that rolled up to extend the display size despite the small design—I dare say I’d rather it be put into production than the bendy thing.

https://www.slashgear.com/1429251/motorola-rollable-smartphone-concept-watch/

Motorola also announced a new software feature in conjunction with its parent company, Lenovo, called Smart Connect. This is an evolution of its Ready For platform, which enabled you to wirelessly connect a Motorola phone to nearby displays to stream apps, use the phone’s camera as a webcam, and share files. Smart Connect expands on these features and will be available on Windows laptops via the Microsoft Store.

 If you have a compatible Lenovo tablet or a Motorola smartphone, you can then seamlessly move your apps between the screens, very much like Apple’s Universal Control feature. You can even use the laptop’s keyboard and mouse on the tablet and phone.

Lenovo and Motorola aren’t the only companies that showed off something like this—Honor had the same functionality with its laptop, phone, and tablet.

source- https://www.wired.com/story/all-the-top-new-gadgets-at-mwc-2024/