LG shows teaser for smartphone with slide-out mechanism

LG showed a teaser for a smartphone with a slide-out mechanism at the announcement of its Wing smartphone on Monday. Except for a dark picture of the sliding device, the manufacturer has not announced anything about the presumably upcoming model.

The teaser shows the shape of a smartphone that is being extended, as happened years ago with the BlackBerry Priv and the Torch series. In addition, a keyboard emerged from under the screen. It is more obvious with LG that it concerns a second screen, because the manufacturer seems to focus on that.

For example, more expensive models from LG have had an accessory to add a second screen for a year and a half, while the Wing presented on Monday has a second screen that comes out of the housing tilted.

The Wing is the first model in LG’s new Explorer program to experiment with the shape of smartphones. The model with extension mechanism is probably a subsequent model. LG has not provided any further explanation about the teaser.