Taiwan's AUO unveils smartphone with six degrees bending freedom

AUO, a tech company from Taiwan, has recently unveiled a new smartphone that will put the Bendgate-plagued iPhone 6 from Apple to shame. This device - which has remained unnamed to date - is actually supposed to bend.

In fact, its bending capabilities turn out to be one of its major features, as pointed out by Tech Times. Unlike the iPhone 6 - which was slammed for bending when placed in pockets - this device from AUO was intentionally made with a bendable screen. This proves that a bending smartphone screen is not necessarily a bad thing, unless they do so when they are not supposed to - much like what happened with Apple's flagship smartphone.

AUO debuted the device at the recent Touch Taiwan 2015. It features a bending sensor that may be used to control the unit, as tech users would use a stylus or their fingers on a touch screen display.

Engadget Chinese has posted a GIF file of AUO's bendable smartphone. The file demonstrates precisely how flexible the device actually is. By pulling the screen back, the screen zooms in, while pulling the screen forward will make it zoom out. When users apply pressure on the top left corner of the bendable screen, the display will also be moving towards that direction, too.

As AUO has boasted during the event, the 5-inch HD AMOLED smartphone features a total of six degrees of bending freedom with 720 x 1,280 pixel resolution. Furthermore, considering that the unit is very flexible, AUO has claimed that it is also impossible to break.

Apart from that, AUO has also guaranteed that the technology used in the product that they unveiled may also be used in other gadgets - even ones that boast of higher pixel resolutions or bigger screen displays. That said, it would appear that, in the near future, such technology will also be used for tablet devices, too.

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