A couple of years in the past we examined the Infinix Concept Phone 2021, which supplied spectacular 160W charging and had an electrochromic movie on the back. That movie allowed the telephone to vary shade from slate grey to metal blue.
Now the corporate is back with a brand new prototype technology, known as E-Color Shift. This is a extra superior model of the identical thought – the back of the telephone can change colours, besides this time there are extra colours to select from and the back is split into particular person segments (the colour of every section could be managed individually).
A prototype of the Infinix E-Color Shift Technology
This was achieved with E Ink Prism 3, not not like what you see in e book readers. This could be very energy environment friendly as energy is required solely for altering the colours – as soon as set, they may stay fastened with zero energy draw.
That stated, the technology can do higher than fastened colours. The segments can shift colours fairly shortly – sooner than you is likely to be used to from e book readers. Here’s a fast demo:
This permits totally different animation loops to be loaded and Infinix says that if this idea is utilized in actual gadgets, there will probably be an app to allow you to customise the look of your telephone by setting totally different colours or taking part in numerous animations.
Note, nevertheless, that within the design above there are solely 4 segments in a 2×2 grid (the darker diamond sample within the middle is fastened). Still, it’s sufficient to create an eye catching animation.
Also, E Ink isn’t fastened to an oblong form, Infinix designers can use extra free-form shapes just like the stripes under:
As the tech develops there could be 60 customizable areas or extra. But this isn’t supposed to be a second display screen on the back, so don’t consider it by way of decision – particularly if the design makes use of complicated shapes fairly than a easy grid.
Infinix desires to provide phones a dynamic look that may change each day, even hour to hour. Animations provide much more choices for customizations and are quick sufficient that totally different ones can be utilized for notifications (the electrochromic movie was too sluggish for that).
The firm nonetheless has a number of challenges to beat earlier than this technology could be put within the palms of shoppers – it believes that the primary client gadgets with the Infinix E-Color Shift Technology can attain the market in a 12 months or two.