Previously, Touch Phones and devices were considered expensive and luxurious because of their fragile and complicated nature but Apple cleared this misconception by releasing a cheap touch phone i.e. the iPhone which has revolutionized the mobile market.
According to Reuters, a Dutch Company plans to take over the mobile industry in a similar manner by releasing a new type of phone which is not only a Touch Phone but also has a fold-away screen thus making it the World’s First Phone with Foldable Screen.
The Phone has a 5-inch (13-cm) display of Polymer Vision’s “Readius” that folds up when not in use and folds out whenever the user plans to read news, blog or email on the phone.
The basic plan is to make a a phone which can promote the habits of e-reading so that people don’t have to carry their laptops anymore. Though I hardly think that this phone can serve as an alternative to laptops.
The phone will be in tough competition with iPhone and Amazon Kindle which are similar products that target the same market. No official word on the price of the phone yet but it will be available somewhere between the mid of 2008.
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Thats a nice phone but I don’t think it can compete with iPhone or any other good phone in the market because of its size if they make it a bit smaller in size and a bit more good looking then this phone has a chance to survive such a tough competition.
This phones target market is the e-reader market.
People who are more inclined to read a book than surf the web.
People who can’t read these small screens in the first place.
That said.
I’m waiting for color touch and a slicker form factor would be nice. At this point I’m having troble giving up my thumb keyboard. But with this type of screen I would expect to start seeing more normal sized keyboards.