Mobile phone "Cellular Book" that can store liquid crystal by folding it

Unlike ordinary folding mobile phones seen in town, it seems that a surprising cell phone will be released in Italy, which can fold and store the liquid crystal itself. Is it coming out soon in Japan ...?

Details are as follows.
Cellular-Book Rollable Display Mobile Device Unveiling at 3GSM

According to this article, Italian mobile phone companies Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision company have agreed to produce a liquid crystal display that can be folded and stored in 2007.

And, based on the concept "Readius" devised by Polymer Vision, this cellular phone "Cellular-Book" equipped with liquid crystal will be announced on February 12 at Barcelona 3GSM World Conference.

In addition, the liquid crystal installed in this "Cellular-Book" is made to be foldable at three places, and it seems that it becomes a maximum of 5 inches when expanding it all. No backlight is mounted, only 16 high contrast monochrome colors can be displayed. Basically it is the main purpose of reading electronic books such as newspapers and books downloaded via the network.

Expanded place.


By the way, although it is a function as a mobile phone, it corresponds to the EDGE / UMTS communication method, it is said to have 4GB of memory and miniUSB terminal. Also, because the power consumption of the display is very low, it seems possible to use it for 10 days with one charge.

Where it is not possible to display color or the back light is not a problem, it may be very useful to have batteries for 10 days.