Curved Dimensions
by Amanda Prorok
It looks like phone makers are arming their models with enhanced ergonomic form factors. Two recently launched specimen include the LG G Flex and Samsung’s Galaxy Round. Both models feature flexible OLED displays – the former with a curved vertical axis, the latter with a curved horizontal axis.
At this point, it seems to me that this design feat does not go much beyond ‘harnessing new technology just for the sake of it’. Samsung dubs ’round interaction’, yet it boils down to rocking the phone on a flat surface for activating a visual update. This doesn’t blow my mind.
However, these phones likely embody real-life prototypes for what is to come; heralds of a new wave of tech design. With this in mind, let us embrace the curved dimensions.
