Motorola’s rolling Rizr
Lenovo-owned Motorola started the global tradeshow with a rolling smartphone prototype called the Rizr (get it?). The Rizr is a 5-inch smartphone that expands to a 6.7-inch device for viewing and interacting with content in a 22:9 aspect ratio. It’s hardly ready for mass production, but the concept is intriguing.
Unfortunately, the back of the smartphone looks a little like a millennial-era PDA device. The display has to roll back somewhere, so this device has more junk-in-the-trunk than the foldables we have now. It’s also a wonder why Motorola is showing off its next steps when it could do so much more for its Razr foldable that’s already on the market (the good news is that there’s another one coming).
