A bendable smartphone, with a catch.

A quite small startup company in China said that they’re about to unveil a smartphone that can actually bend all the way around your wrist.

This smartphone (produced by Moxi Group) will have a flexible touchscreen feature that, after bending it to your will, will still work and can be worn like a watch or even a bracelet. After all this bending, it can still function stretched flat like any other smartphone would.

How though? The bendy screen uses something called graphene, the thinnest material in the world that’s also very strong, super light, remains transparent and is flexible. According to Moxi, they already have a prototype and is planning on releasing 100 000 units in China by the end of 2016.

This in itself would be very impressive if they’ll pull it off since no other company is known to have brought out a fully bendable smartphone like this or even close to it.

But as always, there’s a catch. You see, the phones will only be released with a black-and-white display. The company says that they’re aiming for the full colour version of the phone, but since it’s technically challenging to make, they’ll only have one available by 2018.

These black-and-white phones are expecting to sell for about 5 000 yaun($760) per unit in China. The cheapest version of Apple’s iPhone 6S is sold for about 5 288 yaun ($806).

Moxi is based in the city of Chongqing and are masters in the graphene industry. They’ve released quite a few smartphones last year using this material. Even the name of the company in short means “graphene” and is pronounced “mou-she”.

The big companies like Samsung and LG have also been working on flexible touchscreens and creating new products using graphene. Not that we’ve seen many of those around as yet.

Although, Samsung has already tried to make curved screens that wrap around the device from the front to the sides. LG also has it’s “Flex” phones that are curved to the shape of your head but, not nearly as far as the Moxi phone claims to be able to.

Then apple received a patent for a “flexible electronic device” in 2015. The filing shows at least 24 drawings of how a device could actually be warped. The biggest challenge for most companies however, is figuring out if it would make sense to build a product like this for the mass market.

You see, wearable technology doesn’t yet have the full capability of a normal smartphone and customers will want a device with even greater computing power and way more functions.

Personally, I believe it could be pretty awesome to have a phone I can accidentally sit on that’ll bend to my perfect behind, without breaking. What are your thoughts on a phone like this? Or would it be a waste of time? Should we rather stick to improving what we have already or will this technology lead to smart clothes next? What’s your opinion?