LG was expected to merchandise different telephone with an antithetic signifier origin aft The Wing arsenic an reply to Samsung's foldables. At CES 2021, the institution confirmed that it was moving connected a telephone with a rollable show and that it was going to beryllium disposable aboriginal that year. It ne'er got to motorboat the instrumentality earlier shutting down its mobile concern aft its newest models, which included the Wing, failed to summation traction. But now, a hands-on video by Korean tech reviewer 뻘짓연구소 (BullsLab) shows conscionable however adjacent LG got to launching the telephone that would've simply gone by the sanction "Rollable."

While the Wing featured a rotatable show connected apical of a smaller 1 underneath, the Rollable was designed to person a surface that stretches retired until the telephone becomes a tiny tablet. In the video, you'll spot however responsive the instrumentality is and however rapidly it starts expanding aft the YouTuber swipes astatine the surface with 3 fingers. Whatever's displayed connected surface — adjacent the animated wallpapers — automatically adjusts itself. At 1 point, the reviewer places 3 books beside the telephone to amusement that its centrifugal is beardown capable to determination the heap arsenic it stretches out.

In summation to the stretchable main display, the phone's backmost sheet besides functions arsenic an other surface that tin location a fistful of widgets, including ones for the camera, calendar and music. If you occurrence up the camera app from that other screen, you'll beryllium capable to instrumentality selfies without powering connected the main phone. 

Based connected the instrumentality BullsLab reviewed, the Rollable would've launched with a Snapdragon 888 CPU, up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Those were top-level specs that would've enactment the Rollable successful the aforesaid class arsenic flagships, specified arsenic the Samsung Galaxy S21. 

Since LG's mobile concern nary longer exists, there's small to nary accidental for the Rollable to, well, rotation out. It's worthy noting that Oppo besides showed disconnected a rollable phone backmost successful 2021, but it was conscionable a prototype, and we haven't heard thing astir it since then.