South Korean tech big LG exited the cellphone market in 2021, however now it appears the corporate could have plans to strive its hand at smartphones once more.
As MsPoweruser studies, the corporate has taken out a brand new patent for a cell phone.
However this isn’t simply any cellphone – it’s seemingly a brand new model of the rollable machine that LG started teasing in 2020, simply months earlier than it stopped making handsets.
The brand new patent diagrams present a display that’s ‘rolled up’ at one finish, permitting you to drag it out to your chosen measurement in line with the scenario.
The patent itself is 21 pages in complete. It was filed on 10 October 2023, and has a publication date of 8 October 2024, therefore why it’s public now.
Does that imply the LG Rollable may lastly materialise? And can it mark the beginning of LG’s return to creating telephones?
That continues to be to be seen. However extra Android cellphone competitors, particularly corporations which might be keen to strive new kind components, can solely be a superb factor.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and tailored from Swedish.