TCL: here is the phone with a removable screen

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 What the images that CNET has been able to acquire skillfully do not reveal is, however, how this removable screen works. Probably, even MWC TCL would not have been entirely exhaustive, given that it is a prototype, and not a smartphone ready for marketing.

have shown a prototype of the device at the Mobile World Congress, the hi-tech fair in Barcelona which, however, was canceled due to the risks related to the coronavirus.

The images suggest that the additional part of the screen comes out of the smartphone as a sort of sliding door, or an extendable table, doubling the size of the device. There is currently no other information on the smartphone, which however is a concept phone, therefore presumably not close to a commercial launch. But there are many doubts. From the image, the screen looks unique, and one thinks that a part folds back on itself when the phone is in ‘smartphone mode’. But doesn’t this risk marking the screen too much when it comes to the size of a tablet?