{"id":535102,"date":"2026-03-14T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:44:09","slug":"vivo-patents-vertically-rollable-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535102\/","title":{"rendered":"vivo patents vertically rollable smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rollable smartphone concepts have come and gone in the past few years, but we&#8217;ve yet to see an actual product using a rollable display (there are, however, rollable-screen laptops already).<\/p>\n<p>While the rollable smartphone concepts we&#8217;ve seen thus far have all rolled the screen out of the side, vivo has patented something else entirely &#8211; a rollable screen that becomes longer, not wider.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773459849_2_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"vivo patents vertically rollable smartphone\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The vivo rollable device pictured in the patent application becomes taller as you roll out the screen, which is definitely interesting to see, yet we can&#8217;t help but wonder what the actual use cases for something like this would be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773459849_925_gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"vivo patents vertically rollable smartphone\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apps today are already pretty well optimized for tall screens, so what exactly would making the screen even taller accomplish? Don&#8217;t pay too much attention to these questions, however, as this is just a patent application &#8211; it&#8217;s not even a concept (yet?).<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s really unclear if it will ever get to that stage &#8211; smartphone makers file for a lot of patents they never actually use, and we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if this was one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/workgpt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rollable smartphone concepts have come and gone in the past few years, but we&#8217;ve yet to see an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,190,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-535102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}