Foldable smartphones have mostly settled into book-style and flip phone form factors, but Motorola is still toying around with new ideas, including an “adaptive” foldable that can, among other things, be worn on your wrist.
Shown off at Lenovo Tech World today, the “Adaptive Display Concept” is Motorola’s latest idea using the same tech found in foldable smartphones. A flexible display on a hinge that allows the phone to sit in place leads to a final product which can serve a variety of purposes.
At its core, a 6.9-inch display can be used just as a normal Android smartphone. You can run apps and do anything else just as usual. But bending the device allows it to sit in an upright position which cuts the display size down to 4.6-inches while allowing it to stand up on its own.
On the other hand – literally – the device can even be bent to fit around your entire wrist and worn like a really big smartwatch. The experience from there, Motorola explains, is much like the condensed form of Android found on the outer display of the Motorola Razr+.
In an on-stage demo, Motorola shows off the device being worn on the wrist.
Notably, Lenovo also tried this same idea several years ago, well before foldable smartphones were as common as they are today.
Beyond that, Motorola is also showcasing some new AI functions, including “MotoAI” which acts as an AI-powered assistant, a new document scanner that uses AI to create a better final scan, AI text summarization, and “Privacy Content Obfuscation” which can automatically blur out personal information in screenshots of social posts.
On the “Adaptive” concept, Motorola is also using AI to generate wallpapers for the device based on the user’s outfit, as seen below.
As with the “Rizr” rollable concept that Motorola showed off previously, there’s no word on when this “Adaptive” device will actually hit the market, if ever.
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