All-round smartphone: Old Xiaomi idea is revived by Motorola patent

Concepts like this push the screen-to-body ratio to the extreme, because after all more or less the entire smartphone body consists of screen. If we remember a little bit, the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha one. The futuristic looking smartphone was presented in autumn 2019 and should even be produced in small numbers and sold later, but unfortunately (?) nothing came of it in the end .

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Several manufacturers are working on the 360 ​​degree smartphone

T In fact, Xiaomi should not remain the only smartphone manufacturer tinkering with such ideas, later reports from the camps appeared Samsung

, Oppo, Huawei and LG on. But apparently Motorola also has such a device in its workshops, like LetsGoDigital reports.

Those with this concept contiguous Patents were made by the Lenovo subsidiary Motorola in the middle of last year and were published towards the end. On the one hand it is about the device itself, on the other hand it is about the operation, which needs to be rethought.

That in the patent The smartphone shown is equipped with a flexible screen that Front, both sides and the entire back overcast. Since the sides also have a touch display, the physical buttons are missing . Virtual keys are added instead.

The frame of the case is only on visible at the top and bottom of the device. Access to the SIM card and the USB-C port is at the bottom of the smartphone, where the microphone and speaker are also located. It would be conceivable that the all-round Motorola phone would also support a stylus.

Smartphone automatically adapts to the orientation

Various sensors, such as a motion sensor, a temperature sensor and a gravity sensor are designed to assess whether the smartphone is in a pocket. Then you take it in your hands, it doesn’t really matter where in the front and where in the back is. Therefore, the user interface, including the virtual keys, should adapt to the current orientation.

How useful a smartphone designed in this way with a flexible screen on the front and back is is a completely different matter. Also the one with it

associated high price this wild concept is certainly worth the least – on the other hand, “normal”-looking foldables are in the four-digit range. The increasing power consumption due to the large display area also plays a major role.

Freelance technology journalist, blogs about smartphones, apps and gadgets, since 2018 with regular news and detailed test reports at SmartDroid.de on board. More by Jonathan Kemper

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