The LG Wing is a “T” shaped, dual-screen smartphone - Ars Technica

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• The LG Wing. It has two screens.

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• Using the finest computer simulations available, we have worked out how the hinge mechanism should function.

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• ETNews' mockup from earlier this year. A keyboard at the bottom would be interesting.

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• LG tried a similar idea on a feature phone before: the LG VX9400.

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Well, you can't accuse LG of being afraid to try something new. LG's next phone is the completely wild-looking LG Wing, a dual-screen design that looks like it spins open into a "T" shape thanks to a rotating hinge. Android Authority scored a 10-second video of the device that provides solid proof that this crazy idea actually exists.

The first news of the Wing phone came from Korean site ETNews earlier this year, which reported an October launch date. The site only had a mockup of the device at the time, which now seems spot on. The report says the device has a 6.8-inch main display, a 4-inch secondary display with a nearly 1:1 aspect ratio, and a Snapdragon 765G SoC. That would give it the same display and SoC as the LG Velvet.

The top and bottom halves of the phone are the same size, so it looks like the idea here is that the phone should fold up into a normal smartphone shape. LG basically built this design before on a feature phone, the LG VX9400, which showed up as Tony Stark's first phone in 2008's Iron Man. 

In Android Authority's video, the secondary display is used for split-screen. The main display shows a map, while the secondary display shows music controls at first and then phone controls when a call is picked up. ETNews' mockup showed a keyboard in the secondary display, which would be very VX9400-ish.

That's about all we know about this device. LG hasn't said a word about it, so we're not even sure if this is a widely launching smartphone or a niche device that will only launch in Korea. Stay tuned.

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