The article says "bendable and unbreakable". I'm not clear on if the phone is fixed and curved or actually bendable?

I bet it is not.

The display may be, but the boards, components, battery, case... for everything to be bendable or small enough to be in hinged sections, specially the battery, it would be much bulkier than it is showing.

That said, i will consider getting one instead of the regular candy bar format so that my butt looks better.

I think you're probably right. But if you asked me to guess a year ago, I would have said that the engineering challenge of making a flexible touch screen display would be a lot greater than that of making a flexible circuit board (assuming that the components themselves are small enough to not need to be flexible).

not correct. flexible touch screens are available since forever. and the first oled prototypes shown some 7years ago were already extremely bendable. nothing new on all that. Someone already pointed out that the nexus S(?) already had a curvature on the screen.

I cannot squelch the urge to say, "side pockets!"

People complained about the Galaxy Note's form factor, and yet it's become enormously popular. I don't think we should be so quick to dismiss unusual form factors.

All I can think is how annoying this would be to use on a flat surface, like a bar. This thing looks like it will start rocking back and forth as soon as you poke it.

I hate phones that spin or wobble when placed on a table, so this phone would likely drive me crazy. (Probably better than my HTC which rests right on the camera lens, but still.)

EDIT: Come to think of it, it would be kind of cool if you placed it screen-down, like the receiver on an old dial phone. Then just put a small readout on the back with a clock and notification LED.

I can imagine this opening up much better ergonomics for phone. This particular design is probably more for aesthetics, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was slightly more ergonomic. There's nothing ergonomic about the current rectangles.

A curved phone might fit better in a front pocket, curving around the leg. Especially a gigantic 6" screen like this one.

I can see how a curvature on the vertical axis (like what Samsung did) would help fit better with the shape of the thigh, but this phone is curving horizontally. It would just create a weird bulge in your pocket, wouldn't it?

I guess the difference between between a phone and a tablet is now 1 inch

Diagonal measurements are meaningless. I can make an infinity-inch screen that takes up no space. All "6 inch" means is "no dimension is larger than 6 inches".

> I can make an infinity-inch screen that takes up no space.

I don't understand what you meant by that. It's going to take infinite space...

1000" long by 0.00001" wide. Length 1000" (ish). Area 0.01 sq in.

Whatever is `1000" long`, hardly "takes up no space". We can go on about theoretical size, etc. In practice 1000" is a lot and not possible to comfortably store in any way by an average person.

The point isn't the phone in and of itself. The point is to build something real with the new display material, which has its own benefits, most notably "unbreakable" displays.

The Galaxy Nexus (and the S, I believe?) had a very slightly curved screen, and I do think it fit against my head a bit better. Not sure how pocketable it'd be, though.

The Galaxy Nexus was slightly curved but i always thought it was to prevent scratches when putting it on the table with the display down.

The only benefit I see is it being easier to use with one hand (thumb will reach the top and bottom of the screen)...