While Windows Phone smartphones headlined the Nokia World 2011 event, Nokia also unveiled a very innovative prototype phone, featuring a flexible OLED display. The prototype named ‘Nokia kinetic device’ features a large flexible OLED display, which can be bent from the middle and edges.
As you will see in the video below, the Nokia phone uses its “flexible” feature to scroll through its applications. For example, you can zoom in and out photos by bowing it inward and outward respectively. Similarly, you can play and pause the music. By tapping the edges, you can pan through the photos on the phone.
CNET.com in its report quotes Tapani Jokinen, one of the brains behind the kinetic device technology, as saying that the flexible phone could have feature to receive call or pause music without needing to look at the screen. However, Jokinen did not disclose when will this phone hit the retail market.
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