Phone with rollout display rolls out

John Chan | Jan 22, 2008

If we were editors for a thesaurus, "brag" would become a synonym for "concept". Companies tease consumers all the time with digital renders of products that never make the light of day. This is why it came as quite a surprise that Polymer Vision, a spinoff from Dutch company Philips, has committed to bringing its Readius mobile phone with a rollout display to market.

This mobile phone is not much bigger than your regular candy-bar device. Even then, it manages to have a 5-inch display which can be folded out to one side. The screen is a monochrome one, but still, its size makes it great for reading e-books and other text documents. An earlier press release on the Polymer Vision site said it should have shipped by the end of 2007. We have contacted the company for a confirmation of that and whether it will be available in Asia Pacific. For now, check out some images of this not-just-a-concept-anymore handset.