Bendable and foldable phones are coming. Are you ready?
She pushed down hard on the rectangular phone and, like a slap bracelet, it cinched around her wrist. The audience gasped; the internet went wild.
This articulated wraparound phone -- known as the CPlus -- was a concept device Lenovo used to wow the crowd as part of a larger launch last June that included the modular Moto Z and Phab 2 Pro (the first phone using Google's Tango software for augmented reality). The CPlus may have only been a prototype, but it might as well have been a fireworks show for the imagination it ignited about the future of truly flexible phones that can bend and even fold.
As powerful as today's phones are, their rectangular reliability has become a boring necessity that we hardly see at all. And that's why handsets that bend, twist, snap and fold will electrify and energize the industry, even if these newfangled future devices limp and lag at first....
