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Flexible Phone Screens That Roll and Fold Are Liberating Boring Design
A mobile phone that folds up like a scroll—as in, Egyptian papyrus scroll—is coming sooner than you think.
Photo Ilustration: Justin Metz; Photo: Getty Images
Marko Ahtisaari, former chief of design at Nokia Oyj and son of Nobel laureate Martti Ahtisaari, would often tell me consumers want smartphones to be as big as possible in their hands and as small as possible in their pockets.
A decade later, gadget makers are taking up the challenge.