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here's another idea this right here is

the royal flex PI the world's first

commercially available phone with a

flexible AMOLED display now I'm sure you

guys have a lot of questions and so did

I but the good news is I have actually

gotten the answers for most of them so

stay tuned because there are some things

about this that are really cool and

there are some things about this that

are a little bit less cool so they

started out in 2012 but this is actually

their first phone they've been hard at

work on this for years and they actually

had to build their own fabrication and

production line in order to make this a

reality and it started with the world's

thinnest display so they claimed that

the actual display layer of their tech

here is just point zero one millimeters

thick and this was absolutely critical

to getting it to be flexible enough that

it could not just be bent in a tight

radius like this but it could do so

200,000 times without being damaged the

trick here is that while flexible OLED

technology has been around for a long

time the substrate is the part that's

the challenge because traditionally you

would build it on to glass and finding a

plastic that is also both thin and

flexible and durable both whatever don't

worry about it enough is a real

challenge now they couldn't really give

me any details as to exactly what

plastic they're using but it seems to be

working incredibly well now in terms of

the operating system in specs

it's running Snapdragon 850 five six or

eight gigs of ram 128 or 256 gigs of

storage

a customized version of Android that

they're calling water OS and the reason

for that is that they had to specially

design the software in order to flow

like water from one orientation to

another so you can use it like this in

tablet mode so that's either portrait or

landscape mode that is a four by three

display if you're into the mobile

productivity you can fold it up and use

it like this and you're gonna end up

with a sixteen by nine display you can

turn it around and here you've got I

believe it's an 18 by nine display if

you use it in this aspect ratio and

what's cool is that you can either turn

off the rear display and what they call

mid brightness mode I think medium

brightness mode or you can keep it

enabled just for that like you know

super casual hey you know no big deal

but this is just the future in my hand

passing you know don't stress out about

it's all good they've also got an edge

display as you can clearly see here man

that looks so cool and there's a bunch

of functionality that you can set up in

order to click on it there we go

so I customized mine to have a camera

icon there the camera is also pretty

crazy so there's two cameras they're

both right there which means if you want

to take a selfie you go ahead and hit

that selfie button boom switch the

secondary screen it uses it seems to use

accelerometers and gyroscopes or

whatever like traditional orientation

mechanisms in order to tell which screen

you're looking at so sometimes it's a

little bit off but there you go I'm in

selfie mode or boom you want to switch

back you go like there's still a little

bit of placeholder Chinese in the OS

look they're not planning to launch this

in the US like anytime soon like

hopefully sometime this year they said

but they're already actually launched in

China and then this is pretty cool you

can go into whoops there we go dual mode

and then both the user and

subject can actually see like preview

the picture that you're taking I know

right however there are definitely some

things I noticed while content

consumption is actually I would consider

to be a strong point for a design like

this where you've got stereo speakers

I'm gonna go like that stereo speakers

if you're in tablet mode or you're gonna

have to switch to while effectively I

mean they could still be pumping stereo

sound but you'd only really get a mono

effect out of them speakers in folded

mode the screen is a bit of a weak point

so one of the first things I noticed

about it when I walked up was that on

the lock screen you can clearly see what

appear to be some kinds of like

striations through the display and now

initially what I thought was that this

was because of the fold here either the

screen had been worn out by being folded

and unfolded a thousand times on the

show floor or it was the slightly ribbed

texture behind it that was causing it to

appear that way upon further inspection

though what I realized was that they're

present everywhere so you can see under

this file management a clock icon

there's kind of a shadow that even moves

around as I swiped the icons to the left

and right now then I thought maybe this

is some kind of a shadow that they've

baked into their OS as a graphical

feature then though I switched it here

and it appears as though they still run

this way so there was something else

what was the other thing that I was yeah

I was using the Play Store as an example

here so you can see those shadows are

still down here so it appears to be an

artifact of the display technology

itself at least at this time another

thing that was quite noticeable to me

was if we fire up the messaging app

we've actually got I mean I guess this

is great for a show floor demo because

you've kind of got a watermark on every

screen but they clearly had demo video

running on this for

sometime and we all know that burnin can

be an issue with AMOLED technology and

it appears that the the state that

they're in right now is one we're burnin

is not just possible but even present on

these show floor devices so state of

things now this is really cool

especially how impressively tight

they've got the bend on this thing and

now that I'm aware that the issue with

the striations through the display is

not actually the panel or is not

actually the the Bend mechanism itself

that's sick

now there's still obviously some work to

do on the software side and there's

definitely work to do on the panel side

making sure that it's not burning in

like that and improving their color

accuracy right I forgot one more thing

so comparing the Play Store icon and

Amazon icon remember these are known I

con with my samsung note 9 in just the

basic mode and whatever the other one is

without the the blue light filter on or

anything you can see that there's not

much color depth to the display so the

subtleties of colors can get lost a

little bit that's why that YouTube play

button there is like a shrieking vibrant

red rather than the more subtle red that

it would naturally be so still some work

to do on the panel tech but very cool

direction and I could definitely get

used to the idea of having something

that I can fold up put in my pocket

check that out and then unfold and boom

I'm watching fullscreen content just

like that what an incredible experience

for the future

speaking of the future if you care about

the future your phone you probably want

to get a deep brand grip and a prism

screen protector the deep brand grip is

impact resistant it's got these little

lips on the front so even if you put it

down on a table or whatever you're not

going to scratch your screen

it's got precision cutouts for your

camera your touch sensor all that good

stuff and they're super clicky buttons

of course you can customize it with the

skin of your choice and their prism

screen protector is basically

unbelievable

it comes with an applicator so you can

put it on perfectly every time and this

demo is real I'm actually hammering a

nail into a piece of wood with the front

of a screen

you take the screen protector off boom

screen still good I'm not recommending

you do it I'm just saying you could if

you really really really wanted to so

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