Readius: A Foldable Mobile Phone

The READIUS unveiled by Philips subsidiary PolymerVision. It has a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than other mobile phones. They do this by making a screen that is foldable. The 5-inch (13-cm) display is the world’s first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket.

You get the large display of e-reading, the super battery life of e-reading, and the high-end connectivity … and the form factor and weight of a mobile phone.

READIUS and Amazon’s Kindle have some similarities one of them is an electronic paper screen, which displays black-and-white text and images that look almost like they have been printed on paper. Just like Apple’s iPhone, the gadget offers the chance for operators to boost data usage, which is more profitable than voice revenues.

The device — which will also just make phone calls — connects to the Internet using the third-generation mobile phone networks with high data speeds.

There’s no price on the Readius yet, but a spokesperson for the company said it would cost as much as high-end mobile phones do.