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.
Re:LG G Flex curved smartphone revealed
by thaumasiotes on Monday October 14, 2013 @03:29AM
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I cannot squelch the urge to say, "side pockets!"
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.