Gadgetory

so here at MWC 2019 we've seen flexible displays being used to create foldable phones by companies like Samsung and Huawei but Nubia the company that recently brought us phones like the Nubia X and red magic Mars decided to go a slightly different route they put a four inch flexible OLED screen into a SmartWatch this is the Nubia Alpha and Nubia isn't exactly marketing this product as a SmartWatch and instead they're describing it as a phone on your wrist this sort of gives you the impression that it's gonna have smartphone specifications but it doesn't it has pretty typical SmartWatch specs with a Snapdragon wear 2100 1 gig of ram 8 gigs of on-board storage and a 500 milliamp hour battery that Nubia claims will get you 1 to 2 days on a single charge it also has a 5 megapixel camera on it if you want to snap a quick photo but odds are the quality isn't going to be very good before continue I'd like to give a quick shout out to digit daily our sponsor for mobile world congress 2019 your tech news direct your Inbox make sure to check the link in the description below for more information the phone part is merely in reference to its ECM capabilities which allows it to function as a standalone device so you can take calls with it send text messages and browse the web without your smartphone I have to admit the Nubia Alpha is not the sleekest looking SmartWatch I've ever seen it is made out of stainless steel so it feels pretty nice but it's a very big watch and feels a little bit clunky the flexible OLED screen though is very impressive it's very bright and the colors look fantastic and the fact that it's able to flex and wrap around your wrist feels extremely cool and futuristic the software and here is Nubia own custom wearable operating system and from what I've seen so far it's really intuitive and easy to use everything's pretty easy to find and it takes pretty good advantage of the size of the screen by making the icons large and nicely spaced out so they're easy to press the watch has a lot of functionality built in you can use it to track Fitness sleep listen to music or view your entire gallery of photos it also has these really nifty air gestures that let you navigate side-to-side or scroll up and down just by swiping your across the watch so you can do a lot of interaction with the watch without having to touch the display the Nubia Alpha goes on sale later this year and starts at four hundred and forty nine euros for the non isom version in black 549 for the Easton version and finally six hundred and forty nine euros if you want the 18k gold plated model with Isom let us know what you guys think about the Nubia Alpha is a flexible display on your wrist the future of smartwatches or do you think this is just a gimmick let us know down in the comments below and keep it tuned here for the rest of our coverage of MWC 2019