Check Out TCL’s ‘Fold n Roll’ & Ultra Flex Foldable Phones At MWC 2022
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 show floor, TCL showcased a pair of new phone concepts — the TCL Ultra Flex that looks more like a foldable mini-tablet and the TCL Fold n Roll that blends the foldable as well as rollable display tech into the same hardware. TCL has been into the foldable phone scene for a while now, but in a rather odd way. TCL has teased both foldable and rollable devices for over two years without bringing any of them to the market.
In Feb. 2020, leaked images revealed a TCL device with a rollable screen, turning what looked like a regular phone with a pill-shaped camera cutout at the top into a tablet. TCL showcased the device a year later alongside a tri-fold tablet concept. And yet again, neither of the two ideas got a market release. Meanwhile, TCL kept releasing both entry-level as well as high-end phones at a steady pace.
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MWC 2022 is here, and so is TCL, returning with a pair of new concept devices. The first one in line — and the one most likely to get a market release — is the TCL Ultra Flex. It's a rather odd-looking phone, both in design and functional approach. It looks inspired by the Royole Flexpai that was launched back in 2018 and was touted to be the world's first mass-market foldable phone. Specifically, the hinge design is a shared aesthetic trait between the TCL Ultra Flex and the first-gen Royole Flexpai, so is the lack of a secondary display. Unlike the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 or the Oppo Find N, there is no cover display on the TCL Ultra Flex. It's more like an inward-folding pocket tablet. The squircle camera island at the back appears to have three lenses sitting alongside the LED flash.
Things again get weird when the
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