LG Rollable finally shown off as a foldable phone alternative at CES 2021, launching later this year [updated]
It’s official, and launching sometime in 2021
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Update:Sources familiar withLG’s plans toldCNETthat the LG Rollable will be coming in 2021, and an LG spokesperson just confirmed toNikkeithat it will be “launched this year.”
Original story:We’ve been hearing rumors of theLG Rollablefor a while now, but atCES 2021, LG officially confirmed the name of the phone, while also providing a brief glimpse of it in a teaser.
From the teaser you can see something that starts out looking much like a conventional smartphone, but with edges that extend to create a small tablet, as shown in the image above.
This makes it very different in design to a foldable phone then, but the end result is somewhat similar, giving you the option of either a large screen or a smaller one at any given time.
Lots left to learn
We don’t know anything else about the LG Rollable yet, including when you’ll be able to buy it, but with LG providing a clear view of the front of the phone in a teaser it’s very likely that it will go on sale this year, and possibly sooner rather than later.
Hopefully you’ve been saving though, because arecent leaksuggested that the LG Rollable might cost as much as $2,359 (roughly £1,775, AU$3,130).
Still, LG isn’t the only company working on a rollable phone – theOppo X 2021concept phone also rolls, as does a concept device fromTCL. There’s no guarantee either of those will ever actually go on sale, but sooner or later there are likely to be multiple rollable phones on the market, so hopefully some of them are affordable.
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James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.
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