The LG G Flex is currently only available in South Korea but its makers have just announced a special Hong Kong event on December 3 where a global launch is expected to be announced.
The phone, which features a curved screen -- a feature which is already leading some in the tech world to dub it the banana phone -- also features a self-healing coating on its casing that magically repairs scratches.
Launched in LG's native South Korea in November, Orange has since confirmed that the handset will be going on sale in France before the end of the year and more recent reports suggest that at least three network operators will be selling the phone in the US in 2014.
However, until now, LG itself has remained quiet on the subject of wider availability, yet has gone to great lengths to demonstrate why the phone's unusual shape is not simply a gimmick.
There's little doubt that as battery and processor technology catches up with flexible screen capabilities, bendable, foldable phones and tablets will become must-have items -- who wouldn't want a 21-inch tablet that could be rolled up and dropped into a handbag?
But for now, they're little more than a curiosity and a glimpse of what a flexible future may hold. Samsung has also launched a flexible phone, which is also restricted to South Korea. Called the Galaxy Round, it curves from side to side, like a half-finished cylinder, rather than from end to end, and while both phones have similar internal specifications, it's LG's device that seems to have captured the public's imagination.
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