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Folding screens are old: Huawei already looks at sliding
WHAT ABOUT THE PHONE WITH REMOVABLE SCREEN?
Huawei has already entered the world of folding smartphones (the latest addition is Mate Xs, which we have reviewed), but is already looking to the future. Just as we saw a few months ago with LG, the Chinese company would also be looking to the future through not folding displays, but through sliding displays.
According to a patent issued on April 14 by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and discovered by Lets-After the folding smartphones, the smartphone comes with a removable screen. The idea came from Tcl, a Chinese company also known for licensing the Alcatel and BlackBerry brands. The company would develop a smartphone that manages to make itself a tablet - doubling its size not opening in two like Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s Mate X, but extending through a sort of sliding mechanism.
The indiscretion comes from the Cnet site, which publishes the images exclusively.
According to the American website, Tcl should have shown a prototype of the device in a few days at the Mobile World Congress, the hi-tech fair in Barcelona which, however, was canceled due to the risks related to the coronavirus.
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