Lg Teases Phone With A Slide Out Screen During Wing Event

LG officially unveiled its unique LG Wing smartphone with a swiveling primary display last night. The company streamed the pre-recorded event on YouTube and towards the end, LG shared a small teaser of its next device in the ‘LG Explorer Project’.

LG is not the first smartphone brand to work on phones with sliding displays. Earlier this year, leaked images of a TCL prototype showed a similar mechanism. The major difference here is that TCL’s prototype expands horizontally while LG is working to expand the display vertically. I’m not sure how expanding the display vertically is going to help the user. It will only make the device appear like those elongated iPhone memes instead of a usable tablet form factor.

It will be interesting to see the use-cases of this upcoming sliding phone. At its launch event, LG pointed out a wide range of potential scenarios where the swivel display of the LG Wing will be convenient for customers. We could expect this sliding phone to get the same treatment when it gets announced in the future.