The LG Wing is the latest smartphone from the Korean company with a main display that swivels to reveal a smaller secondary screen bringing a fresh take on smartphone design. The images show a couple of different use cases for LG’s unusual form factor, including watching video on the main screen while the playback controls appear on the secondary display, and displaying two apps side by side.
Users will have the option of saving combinations of apps to open simultaneously on the LG Wing and you’ll also be able to rotate the phone so that the swiveled main screen is above, below, to the left, or to the right of the secondary display.
LG is no stranger to making multi-screen Android devices. However, in the case of its previous phones, like the LG V60, their second screens came in the form of optional cases. LG Wings’s software will be its saving grace since Android isn’t designed for phones with two screens, which means manufacturers like LG and now Microsoft have to build their devices’ multiscreen functionality themselves, often with mixed results.
The rest of the hardware for the LG Wing is fairly ordinary. There’s a Snapdragon 765G processor with Qualcomm’s integrated X52 modem for 5G support, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a 4,000mAh battery, an in-display fingerprint sensor, and support for wireless charging. The biggest omission, of course, is any waterproofing — something to be expected on a phone with this many moving parts.
The second display also adds to the thickness and bulk of the phone, although not as much as, say, the self-contained full-size screen cases that LG’s used in the past. The Wing measures in at 9.17 ounces (260g) and 0.43 inches thick — for comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, with a similar-sized display, weighs 7.76-ounces (220g) and is 0.35 inches thick.
The LG Wing also features a pop-up 32-megapixel front-facing camera, along with a triple-camera setup on the back of the device. There’s a 64-megapixel main camera, a 13-megapixel “regular” ultrawide, and the aforementioned 12-megapixel “gimbal mode” ultrawide that’s dedicated to the landscape mode. There is no price tag on the device yet as of now, the company has yet to announce even a vague release window for the device.
