LG WING confirmed to be the official name of the upcoming rotating smartphone

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Over the weekend, LG has confirmed, via a press release, that the official name of is upcoming rotating smartphone will indeed be LG WING. It’s how the media has been referring to the device ever since the first reports popped up back in May, describing its T-shaped rotating build.

The phone will be part of LG’s Explorer Project, a “new mobile category aimed at discovering new ways to interact with mobile devices”.

As we reported at the beginning of the month, the LG WING will be unveiled on September 14; this has been now officially reconfirmed by the company in the aforementioned press release.

As far as the device is concerned, it brings a new approach to an older concept. While we all remember sliders like the BlackBerry Priv, the concept with most devices in this category was simple: slide the display up to reveal a physical keyboard.

With the LG WING, users will reportedly be able to tilt/slide the main display in order to reveal a secondary screen that will host the keyboard or other information depending on the usage scenario and the app being used.

LG has been experimenting with multiple displays for quite some time now. While the company seems to have settled for the Second Screen concept, a case you snap on to the phone that attaches an identical secondary display, it does indeed reveal the fact that, at least for now, LG is not planning on any “real” foldable.

However, the “twistable” could be innovative enough, and “cool” enough to make up for that approach. This innovative smartphone might, however, according to recent reports, be priced somewhere around the $1,000 threshold.

In addition to the image at the top, which is an old mock-up from spring, you can check out a leaked video showing off the phone in a navigation scenario. A second video shows off the same device, which will give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.

We’ll, of course, be covering the event and we’ll tell you all about the LG WING, so make sure to check back in on September 14 for our LG WING launch coverage.

Source: LG

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LG Wing to arrive in H2 to redesign the Second Screen to a rotating design

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Despite shaking up its line-up with the recent LG Velvet, nothing seems to have changed in terms of how the company is approaching the foldable trend. Instead of having a display split in two, LG went with a more conventional approach of the Second Screen, which is, as its name implies, a physical secondary display that you attach to your phone via a case.

While still not considering foldable displays, LG, according to a recent report from Korea, might be redesigning said Second Screen, making it a swivel design rotating screen as seen in the illustration above.

The device is rumored to be the LG Wing (probably a codename at this point), and is expected in the second half of the year, ETNews reports.

The way this would work is that the main 6.8-inch display will rotate (swivel) in a T-Shape to reveal a second 4-inch display underneath it.

The report also notes that the difference between the current Second Screen, and the redesigned rotating screen is one of user experience. While the first one had productivity and multitasking in mind, the latter is focused on immersion. This would open up scenarios like displaying images on the main screen, and having editing options displayed on the secondary display.

The report also notes that said LG Wing is already in the development stage, with a second half of the year launch in mind, probably at the upcoming (online-only) IFA 2020.

Source: ETNews

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