Now, which one of these concepts has made the cut, remains to be seen, but LG has codenamed the undertaking Project B, and is already begun prototype production at its remaining Korean factory in Pyeongtaek, tip insiders.

The display itself will be made from BOE with LG's input, the same ones that made the foldable panel of Huawei's acclaimed Mate Xs bendy phone. According to those same sources, " foldable displays need to withstand consistent pressure at a small area, but rollable displays can dissipate the pressure to a wider area," so "a rollable display isn’t necessarily more difficult to achieve than foldable ones," and BOE already has plenty of experience with those.

Heck, LG has even demonstrated one rollable panel of its own making a long time ago, albeit at a time when it was still angling to be a viable competitor in the foldable handset business, and in the phone industry overall.

Instead of fighting in the same space as Samsung and Huawei, however, LG has apparently revamped its strategy to create brand new phone niches and perhaps be a first mover in new markets created by innovative form factors.

First in line is a rotating phone with two displays codenamed Wing which will be released in the second half of the year, and was just confirmed again in the current publication about the rollable display device. Its price is expected to be around $800, so LG is obviously not planning anything else but the rotating dual display to be the "wow" factor of the Wing phone.

Next in LG's new strategy of phones is the rollable Project B phone in question which will be extending display to the sides when needed, and in the first half of 2021 LG will be introducing a flagship device called Rainbow.