The LG Wing’s twisting screen offers a new spin on the dual-screen smartphone

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LG is no stranger to two-screen smartphones in recent years, nearabout the company has just perceptibly spoken its boldest foray into a dual-screen dingbat in recent memory: the LG Wing. It's a wild-looking, swiveling-display smartphone that looks to -- really literatim -- offer a new circuit on what a phone can do.

The new phone is inspired by LG's demanded trends of dual-screen smartphones like the G8X ThinQ and the Velvet, forth with the company's edition swiveling LG VX9400 inamorata phone reported over a decade ago. The Wing is set to be the headmost dingbat beneath LG's new "Explorer Project" branding, aimed at exploring means to "breathe new life into what makes a smartphone."

Wing's most interesting feature, of course, is the two OLED panels. The headmost is a standard 6.8-inch plaza screen without any bezels or notches (instead, LG has chosen to go with a pop-up lens, when believably the Wing didn't have enumerated moving parts to worry about). Nearabout it's the spare 3.9-inch console that's underneath the plaza display that makes the Wing 2020's most unique-looking phone. Instead of folding out for two full-size (or one flexible) panels side by side, the Wing's plaza display twists circa and up to reveal the spare screen, in a shape that looks a lot like a Tetris T-block.

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And LG has big ambitions for the types of functionality that this new form line-up can enable. The idea is that when in "swivel mode," you'll use the plaza display for whatever your primary task is, while the spare display serves as a supplementary window for flipside app or long functionality.

LG has big ambitions for its hinge mode

For example, LG imagines utilizing the secondary console for camera controls while utilizing the camera application, freeing up the plaza display as an uncluttered viewfinder. Gauze it around, and you can use the plaza display as a massive, widescreen keyboard while you reveal to a message cilia displayed on the smaller, vertical display. Video applications can use the spare display for media and aggregate controls. A lot of this, though, will depend on third-party developers embracing the spare display to extend their apps -- otherwise, it'll end up a refrigerated inamorata limited to just LG's own software.

Of course, you can conjointly use it to simply run two applications side by side: spectacle a mobile sassy on your plaza console while streaming it online to friends and hearers utilizing the spare display, or read Warble while streaming the latest football match.

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The Wing doesn't just should be used in a landscape format, either. LG is just as fervid narrowly utilizing the plaza display in a standard candy-bar "portrait" mode as it is the other unclosed widescreen format, with the secondary console confined as an auxiliary display of sorts while you cross on Google Maps or read the latest document from work. The secondary halved display can conjointly be disabled while muddy out utilizing a "grip lock" feature, arrogation you to use it as a handy handle when watching a movie, for example.

There's a indiscrete gimbal mode

The Wing's variegated form line-up conjointly leads to enclosed enclosed one of the phone's most interesting features: a "gimbal mode" that allows for the secondary display to be used as a grip, chronicled with joystick controls for adjusting the camera. LG categorically included a spare dedicated ultrawide camera on the back-up to capture footage while the plaza display is in its swiveled landscape mode (with a rotated sensor to match the orientation). It's conjointly escaped with a new "hexa motion" sensor that the company says helps duck interference. The Wing can conjointly shoot in a dual recording mode, capturing video from the front and rear cameras at the aforementioned time.

Obviously, with therefore many moving parts here, there are profusion of referring narrowly durability and longevity. LG says that it's aware of those referring and promises that the Wing will maharishi up. It's conjointly working on cases that will be uniform with the swiveling design, something that takes a bit other work than a traditional phone case.

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The rest of the hardware for the LG Wing is ratherish 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 suture for wireless charging. The biggest omission, of course, is any waterproofing -- something to be expected on a phone with this many moving parts.

The rest of the hardware is ratherish standard

The spare display conjointly adds to the thickness and corporeality of the phone, although not as numerous as, say, the self-sufficing 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 conjointly features a pop-up 32-megapixel front-facing camera, forth with a triple-camera setup on the back-up of the device. There's a 64-megapixel plaza camera, a 13-megapixel "regular" ultrawide, and the aforesaid 12-megapixel "gimbal mode" ultrawide that's dedicated to the landscape mode.

LG says that the Wing will be reported in the US on Verizon first, followed by AT&T and T-Mobile. LG says that price, release date, miscolor options, and specs will yo-yo by network partner, which agency that we nimbleness see a transgress enclosed a sub-6GHz LG Wing model for AT&T and T-Mobile and a pricier mmWave version that's exclusory to Verizon, agnate to the previously reported LG Velvet. That said, as of now, the company has yet to annunciate metrical a ambiguous release window or rate gauging for the usable device.