Just a few years in the past we examined the Infinix Idea Cellphone 2021, which supplied spectacular 160W charging and had an electrochromic movie on the again. That movie allowed the cellphone to vary colour from slate grey to metal blue.
Now the corporate is again with a brand new prototype expertise, known as E-Colour Shift. It is a extra superior model of the identical concept – the again of the cellphone can change colours, besides this time there are extra colours to select from and the again is split into particular person segments (the colour of every section may be managed individually).
A prototype of the Infinix E-Colour Shift Expertise
This was achieved with E Ink Prism 3, not not like what you see in book readers. That is very energy environment friendly as energy is required just for altering the colours – as soon as set, they are going to stay mounted with zero energy draw.
That mentioned, the expertise can do higher than mounted colours. The segments can shift colours fairly shortly – sooner than you could be used to from book readers. Right 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 units, there will probably be an app to allow you to customise the look of your cellphone by setting totally different colours or taking part in varied animations.
Be aware, nonetheless, that within the design above there are solely 4 segments in a 2×2 grid (the darker diamond sample within the middle is mounted). Nonetheless, it’s sufficient to create an attention grabbing animation.
Additionally, E Ink isn’t mounted to an oblong form, Infinix designers can use extra free-form shapes just like the stripes beneath:
Because the tech develops there may be 60 customizable areas or extra. However this isn’t supposed to be a second display on the again, so don’t consider it by way of decision – particularly if the design makes use of advanced shapes fairly than a easy grid.
Infinix desires to provide telephones 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 gradual for that).
The corporate nonetheless has a number of challenges to beat earlier than this expertise may be put within the palms of customers – it believes that the primary shopper units with the Infinix E-Colour Shift Expertise can attain the market in a yr or two.