LG ’s departure from the smartphone space elicited a nostalgia - push semisweet response . While it was right at the leaflet of reinventing phones with bold excogitation concepts , LG shuttered its smartphone partitioning .

But it seems one of the brand ’s most challenging relics is still kick . Even though the chances are amazingly slim , there is still some glimmer of hope that LG will retrovert to the smartphone game — and with a rollable smartphone , no less .

According to apatentthat was first spotted byMSPowerUser , LG ’s display unit has developed a machine that includes a “ roll - slide ” display gathering . At the center of it is a pliant jury that is basically a substratum developed using plastic as one of the ingredients .

The use of plastic is not surprising here , in the main because it supply some much - needed flexibleness . When the first generation of foldable phones arrived on the scene , Samsung was also using credit card for the internal foldable panel and later on shifted to a intercrossed cloth called ultrathin deoxyephedrine .

The display material in LG ’s patent implementation do it pliant and rollable . There ’s a frame that includes a crimper and pathfinder organization , allowing the flexible video display to extend and retract .

sandwich between the multi - frame array is a system of magnetic sheets that rely on charismatic pull to check that no creases or wrinkles form as the flexible display inflate and retracts . bump off the wrinkles is n’t merely an artistic choice . alternatively , it also go along the display wholeness intact and ensures that it live for farseeing - full term use .

It seems LG ’s patent does n’t restrict itself to smartphones . Instead , it harbors a few more ambitious ideas , as well . Take a look at what it say :

“ The flexible show gimmick can be easily carried and follow out a large screen so that the flexible display gadget may be applied to various fields include not only peregrine equipment such as a nomadic earpiece , an electronic book , or electronic newspaper , but also a idiot box or a monitor . ”

Now , rollable tech is not merely a figment of patent imagination . LG showcased a exploit image of its own take on a rollable phone . Oppo reached the showcase stage , but never released its rollable phone . TCL also got into the race for fold - and - roll concept phones .

Does this patent of invention mean value LG is getting back into the smartphone fight ? Well , that would be a monolithic endeavor . Though , technically , it can happen . This patent , which was filed on October 10 , is registered under the LG Display building block , a company that has historically provide phone panels to the likes of Apple .

It is plausible that LG ’s display unit of measurement is arming itself for the changing landscape painting of smartphone design . And down the road , if a smartphone brand is willing to launch a rollable phone , LG would readily present itself as a supplier of the central rollable display tech .

When exactly will we see a rollable phone murder the ledge ? Well , we do n’t have a whole commitment from any brand yet . On the other hand , Huawei issteering the theme of foldable phones into the silly domainof tri - folds , where the screen spread out twice into a massive tablet .

In the meantime , if you ’re marvel what LG ’s Rollable phone was all about , gibe out the video above .