Some new images or press renders have surfaced online, courtesy of Jessica Dolcourt, the Section Editor from c|net. Dolcourt shared a few leaked renders of a smartphone or maybe a tablet with a never seen before design, carrying a slide-out display unlike the vanilla foldable smartphones from Samsung, Motorola or Huawei. It's still not clear if this device we see here is a final and commercial product from TCL or just a concept design showing off the next possibilities in the foldable industry by the manufacturer TCL Corporation. The handset was supposedly in line to make it's first ever public appearance from the phone maker at this year's Mobile World Congress trade exhibition, which was cancelled this past week due to the novel Coronavirus concerns. So talking about the device here, at first glance the smartphone appears to be pretty normal and standard in all it's aspects but what make's it exciting is the flexible display, where phone's screen can slide out from it's right side, extending the likely rollable display to turn itself into a tablet. This interesting and contemporary mechanism from TCL should allow it's users to take advantage of the large screen space as seen on a slate, without having to carry a real tablet around. It was also reported that TCL did not respond to any of these comments when the media tried to get in touch with the company.
It's a design I've never seen before, and that makes the concept exciting. Journalists would have seen this expandable phone at Mobile World Congress this month. The world's largest mobile show was canceled in response to health concerns regarding the global spread of Coronavirus, said c|net's trusted sources.In terms of built, the newest phone features a curved display on both parallel sides from the front, also traiting narrow bezels or frames on top forehead and bottom chin, bringing a pill-shaped punch hole style front facing secondary camera sensors placed to the top right corner of the handset. The expandable mechanism for the display works with a break in the chassis on the right side, from where you can pull the respective portion apart to expose the rollable-flexible panel that is expected to be housed on the left side of the smartphone. When slided-out the phone appears to be large enough to work as a conventional tablet, offering more screen space for multitasking on the move. From the back the slide-out panel is supported by a frame that also moves back and forth with the display, which can indeed make the phone a bit thicker compared to normal smartphones in the present trend. Apart from the rousing display, the phone will also bring a quad primary camera module on the rear left side (sitting on the portion that slides-out) with lenses arranged vertically with a LED flash on the bottom. The hardware buttons for volume and power controls are also positioned on the same side. However with MWC off the calendar for this year, we have no clue when the manufacturer will finally show off the device formally to their global audience.
Source: c|net
