Vivo 36286c Transsion Holdings to Launch Smartphone With Rollable Display in 2024: Report

Transsion Holdings showcased its Tecno Phantom Ultimate prototype with a rollable display in September last year. 3g1t27

Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 10 October 2023 11:41 IST

Vivo, Transsion Holdings to Launch Smartphone With Rollable Display in 2024: Report

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Samsung's Flex Hybrid concept has simultaneous sliding and folding capabilities

Highlights

Rollable displays can retract and extend at the tap of a button
Motorola showcased its rollable concept at the MWC in March
Rollable smartphones could bring some competition for foldable devices

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Vivo entered the foldable smartphone segment in April last year with the Vivo X Fold. The company followed up with the Vivo X Fold 2 with improved cameras and new internals. The Chinese smartphone brand is now looking to dip its toes into the rollable phone segment. Both Vivo and Transsion Holdings are reportedly working on slideable phones intending to launch them as early as the end of next year. The latter already previewed its slideable handset named the Tecno Phantom Ultimate in September last year. Vivo and Transsion are expected to beat Samsung in the race to release the first rollable phone.

As per a Vivo and Transsion Holdings are gearing up to unveil the world's first rollable screen smartphone. The report quoting industry insiders notes that the handsets will debut by the end of the coming year. The rollable handsets will have a partially expanded screen and their screens will be capable of extending or shrinking with the press of a button.

If Vivo or Transsion manage to launch handsets with the rollable display form factor in 2024, they would sur and grab some of the market share for rollable display handsets from Samsung, which is currently leading the way in the foldables market.

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Transsion Holdings, which owns brands including Infinix, showcased its Phantom Ultimate prototype with a rollable display in September last year. At the tap of a button, the phone's 6.55-inch display starts to expand to 7.11 inches, with a form factor of a small tablet. The Tecno Phantom Ultimate packs a low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) rollable display made by CSOT. The 7.11-inch display claimed to have a 1,596x2,296 resolution and a pixel density of 388ppi.

Other prominent handset makers including unveiled the world's first rollable smartphone at the CES 2021. Oppo has also made a rollable phone concept with a 6.7-inch screen that can transform into a 7.4-inch mini tablet-sized display.

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KEY SPECS
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Display (Primary) 8.03-inch

Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Front Camera 16-megapixel

Rear Camera 50-megapixel + 48-megapixel + 12-megapixel + 8-megapixel

RAM 12GB

Storage 256GB, 512GB

Battery Capacity 4600mAh

OS Android 12

Resolution 1916x2160 pixels

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