Get the latest tech news

Samsung and Motorola want us to wear our smartphones. We REALLY shouldn't.

MWC 2024 was full of sci-fi-esque tech like transparent laptops, but a wearable, bendable smartphone doesn't even make sense on Star Trek.

My colleagues Nick Sutrich and Derrek Lee, who got to fly to MWC this year, took video footage and dozens of gorgeous photos of Motorola's wearable smartphone, as well as the RIZR rollable phone that grows in height with a display that slides out from the bottom. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)I'm harping on a concept that may never see the light of day, and there are plenty of other experimental products at MWC that probably don't have much of a consumer audience beyond the initial novelty, like Lenovo's transparent laptop. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)I'm sure plenty of people had trepidations about foldable phones' shortcomings and trade-offs, and new models like the Galaxy Z Flip 5 prove that the doubters should have had faith.

Get the Android app