The China-based smartphone maker vivo continues on its innovative journey as the company patents a smartphone with an extendable display design.

The future of smartphones might not be foldable but sliding, as a report by 91mobiles surfaced earlier today, giving first glances at a patent filed by vivo at the World Intellectual Property Organisation back in May 2021. The patent was published on December 2nd and contains images of the sliding concept.

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The patent drawings show the phone will have an extendable display that extends from right to left and provide the user with additional screen real estate. The vivo extendable phone expands from the right spine and clips back in when not in use. The phone is equipped with a motor that when triggered automatically brings out the screen. The screen might be manually expandable with the help of a touch or a physical trigger, while some tasks like accessing the rear camera might trigger this response automatically as a triple camera module can be observed on the left side of the phone, which appears when the screen is extended.

The speaker grille can be observed on the top, while the USB Type-C port is on the right spine. The phone has a punch-hole cutout on the front for the selfie snapper.

vivo is not the first company to try its hands on the sliding phone, as OPPO has previously made a concept phone dubbed the OPPO X in 2021. That being said, no sliding smartphone is commercially available yet.

Since the vivo sliding phone is still in the patent stage, it is unknown when customers can see a working model. So stay with us as we will provide updates when notable developments surface regarding this phone.

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Chinese tech giant and one of BBK subsidiaries OPPO last year announced what should be the world’s first rollable smartphone, aptly referred to as OPPO X 2021 ‘concept’ device. The company went on to state that the product was no vapourware and that the device is more durable than could be imagined. It even backed that up with a durability test. Well, looks like the X 2021 will be commercialized soon. OPPO has given out some units of the concept rollable to Youtubers. We have now come across a couple of review videos of the OPPO X 2021.

The videos give us our first look at the device in real skin showing us all the externals from the front and rear designs to the rollable mechanism and the user interface. In one of the videos by French YouTuber Brandon LeProktor, the Oppo rollable phone can be seen in all its glory with a spectacular and impressive look.

The video which is in French gives us an idea of how the phone retracts and rolls out at the press of a button. One aspect that would be of concern to many is how the interface is adapted to intuitively transition between the entended and contracted form-factor of the device. The video shows the software changes seamlessly.

A second video by Youtuber Sami Tech Tips provides a hands-on review of the device in English even though it may not the best of accents we’ve heard. The Youtuber gave answers to some burning questions about the Find X 2021 such as the selfie camera and what happens when you accidentally open it inside your pocket.

Interestingly, there is no selfie camera. Even more interesting is the discovery that the phone will open if the screen is left unlocked inside the pocket and the slide is accidentally triggered. In this situation, it will keep trying to expand even when the space is not wide enough. We believe this is still a work in progress and OPPO will modify that to retract if an obstacle is met.

You can check out both videos from above to get more insight into the OPPO X 2021.

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