Motorola's Smart Phone Bracelet

It is difficult to imagine our lives without smartphones. They empower us to access information, communicate with coworkers, employees, and customers, as well as streamline workflows with the many different apps that add up every day.

Whether as a useful tool in the office or as a source of entertainment and means of communication every day, our phones have become an integral part of our lives, and smartphone companies are very much aware of this. They come up with newer models that seem to get smaller and smaller but more innovative than ever before every time.

This includes Motorola, which has recently showcased its wearable smartphone prototype at Lenovo Tech World ‘23, infused with AI-powered features with the goal of providing style, innovation, and convenience for users.

Smartphones in 3 Ways

Motorola presents its freshest smartphone model as one seasoned with the concept of adaptive display. The flexible device is equipped with an FHD+pOLED display and is able to take several forms, three to be precise.

The device’s default state is a 6.9-inch opened and laid-flat smartphone, running “a full Android experience”. The device can also be bent into an upright, self-standing position, making its visuals a little bit more compact, displayed at 4.6 inches. Its last but certainly not least adaptive display is its wearable, bracelet-like mode.

Based on the keynote presented by Motorola’s own Lexi Valasek, users can place the phone around a silver band, presumably magnetic, attached to their wrist, and wear the phone just like one would a bracelet or a watch. The prototype’s wearable mode’s magnetic feature prevents the phone from falling off every time a user moves their arm, and it is equipped with a fabric backing, offering comfort.

The bendable phone allows users to stream videos, socialize with friends and families, take photos, and browse videos, just like they do with every other smartphone, this time with style and without having to hold them in their hands.

History Repeats Itself

This isn’t Motorola’s first ride on adaptive display smartphones. Back at Tech World 2016, Motorola presented a similar concept, a large smartphone that is built around a flexible OLED display and can bend to wrap around the wrist like a cuff. In 2016, however, there were factors like crunching noises during snap-bracelet modes that made the concept improbable.

The 2023 unique reiteration seems more promising. With the aim of offering maximum convenience to its customers, Motorola strives to make the smartphone’s bending capability as comfortable as possible and easily interactable even on the go.

To further cement the idea of innovation, Motorola takes advantage of the ever-booming tech of AI, by introducing four AI concepts infused into the company’s smartphone, enhancing every user’s experience.

Motorola’s AI Plans

The smartphone’s AI features include new privacy features, an AI Text Summarization feature, real-time document scanning the company calls The Doc Scanner, and a generative AI wallpaper feature. The scanner is said to bring up clear images with minimized wrinkles and shadows, and the text summarization feature can summarize long texts like chats, emails, and articles.

The wallpaper feature allows users to take pictures of their current clothing to create multiple AI-generated images based on said clothing, with these images available to use as their phone’s wallpapers.

Aside from having AI-powered features in the smartphone, Motorola has also started developing its own AI personal assistant named MotoAI. The model can answer questions, draft messages, do some scheduling, and process local device data to ensure privacy and security. The model is said to work on both smartphones and PCs.

The Future of Phone Bracelets

Motorola isn’t the only company potentially working on foldable smartphones. Companies like Huawei, Oppo, and Samsung have demonstrated interest in exploring the landscape.

Despite the potential production of foldable smartphones starting to rise again, the demand for them at the moment is still not too high. According to a report by IDC, only 1-2% of the smartphone market worldwide in 2022 have an interest in actually having foldable smartphones. If prices decline or great quality is assured, however, the market may grow at a CAGR of 27.8% from 2022 to 2027.

As for the product itself, though convenience is what Motorola strives to offer, several parties are starting to question how convenient the phone can really be once it is released to the public. Questions like what happens when we put our wrist on a table, how heavy the phone feels, how tiring having it on our wrists could be, as well as what happens when one has to take a call, are starting to come up.

With not much technical information regarding the smartphone being disclosed by Motorola, the smartphone’s durability and price have also become causes for concern. There are currently no predictions of when or if the bendable smartphone will eventually be brought to market.

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