This Is The LG Rollable Smartphone, That We'll Sadly Never Get

LG had teased a rollable smartphone at CES 2021, showing us the future of mobile devices. Simply at present that the Korean company's officially killed its smartphone business, the phone might never get to meet daylight. We can, still, still see it for one terminal time, in alive images.

Korean regulatory bureau Rubber Korea recently certified the LG Rollable with model number LM-R910N (via Twitter @FrontTron). While the list doesn't reveal any info about this next-gen device, it does give us a live look at the phone. Cheque it out beneath in some of its glory.

Every bit you lot tin see, the device closely matches what LG had shown us dorsum in January. It features a curved screen with a thick frame at the top and bottom. Before reports had revealed that the LG Rollable would feature a flexible OLED brandish from Chinese firm BOE.

In that location's a cutout on the top-left corner for what appears to be a selfie camera. The device is seemingly around 170mm long, give or take a few millimeters. Interestingly, the Safety Korea list describes the device as a Tablet PC, falling under the Laptop Computer category. But, unfortunately, there'south only i prototype that as well in non-expanded form. So we tin can't run into it in all its glory.

LG Rollable appears in a live image for one last time

LG's smartphone business is officially dead then are some interesting next-gen smartphone concepts, such equally this rollable phone. The company is shutting down its mobile business in a few months. While it will continue to sell its existing inventory, there'southward no give-and-take official word on whether information technology volition launch any new smartphone before its expected closure on July 31. Well-nigh likely it won't and that ways we will never run across the LG Rollable in real again.

LG seemingly had strong intentions of releasing the rollable telephone this year. The phone was doing rounds on the cyberspace quite oft, suggesting that the development is underway. The fact that the company had submitted the device for certification itself speaks a lot near its plans (Safe Korea certified the LG Rollable on March 19th, 2021). Just, unfortunately, the device wasn't meant to be.

Of course, someone or the other volition eventually launch a rollable smartphone in the not-so-distant future. The likes of Samsung, TCL, and OPPO are already in the race, with many others peradventure joining soon. With LG no longer in the race, it at present remains to be seen who comes upward with a market-ready rollable smartphone first.