28 February 2024

Last yr Tecno offered a rollable phone idea referred to as the Phantom Ultimate. This was simply a idea, although, seen solely in demo movies – however now the corporate has some precise prototypes and introduced them to the MWC. We obtained some hands-on time with the Ultimate and a couple of different fascinating concepts which are brewing over at Tecno HQ.

The Phantom Ultimate might by no means develop into a retail product, however it’s now a actual working gadget. The phone begins off with a 6.55” show that wraps across the left edge. At the push of a button, it grows wider and as extra display screen spools out the diagonal grows to 7.11” (with a completely different side ratio, after all), all within the span of 1.3 seconds.

There is a “second display” on the again – we put that in quotes because it’s really the primary (and solely) show that’s rolled across the again. Here the show is seen by a glass window, so that you don’t have to fret about damaging it. It’s a intelligent use of what’s already there.

The rise of foldable telephones have pushed Android to develop better assist for screens out of the blue changing their measurement and side ratio. The Tecno Phantom Ultimate is a good demonstration of that too because the UI and apps alter after you prolong or shrink the show.

The gadget measures 9.93mm thick, which was slimmer than any foldable, although some horizontal folding fashions have now reached under the 10mm mark.

While Tecno continues to be experimenting with rollable telephones, it already has two foldables in the marketplace – the Phantom V Fold and the V Flip. The firm’s engineers have been busy dreaming up methods to make them better.

One factor that they’ve give you is named Borderless Foldable Main Screen . It’s fairly self descriptive – it’s a modification of how the Ultra Thin Glass (UTG) is connected to the phone that permits the producer to shrink the bezel across the display screen, giving it a better screen-to-body ratio.

At final yr’s MWC Tecno unveiled the Chameleon Color Technology – mainly, a panel on the again that may be set to considered one of a number of thousand colours. This is achieved with sub-micron prisms that may be rotated by a magnetic area.

This implies that the impact wants ambient gentle to work, however on the flip aspect it makes use of little or no energy – on the order of milliamps. And it’s fairly quick too, needing simply 0.03s to shift to a completely different color. Additionally, Tecno says that this has a very lengthy service life so that you don’t want to fret about it carrying out.

For extra of Tecno’s superior ideas, take a look at the Tecno Pocket Go and Tecno Dynamic 1.