ISSUE 73 • ANDROID ADVISOR 13When closed, the trifold phone is thick and
the whole package was very heavy and clunky.
The screens looked and felt like plastic, and the
mechanism was creaky. In all honesty, it felt a lot
like Royale’s early FlexPai prototype. But TCL wasn’t
showing off a polished phone. It’s all about the
potential of what a smartphone display can be. When
TCL launches its first phones later this year, they’ll
look much more like traditional handsets, but down
the line, TCL is hoping to become an innovator in the
smartphone space with its outside the box displays.
And it might be able to do it. For years, TCL has
made some of the best budget TV sets in the business,TCL’s rollable display
is a tablet when you
need it and a phone
when you don’t