Foldables schmoldables: meet the world's first (concept) phone with a slide-out screen

While everyone seems to agree foldable devices are the future, invigorating an industry that's been suffering from a distinct lack of innovation in recent years, it's also hard to overlook the glaring flaws, weaknesses, and compromises of otherwise groundbreaking products like and or the reinvented .

Bottom line, current foldable designs are arguably not ready for primetime, laying the groundwork for while essentially allowing their manufacturers to run tests on audacious (and wealthy) early adopters. But what if there was another way to seamlessly expand a handset's ...