robila Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 (edited) At CES2020 a startup presented a round smartphone. It's called Cyrcle Phone, and although it's a prototype at the moment, it could really hit the market later this year, the company says. Smartphones, as a concept, have been reduced down to glowing rectangles that have grown boring. Why not have it take on a different shape? Well, the people behind the Cyrcle Phone have decided to take up the challenge, showcasing a circular phone at CES 2020. And from the looks of it, let's just say Android will be a tight fit on the thing. The Cyrcle Phone started out as a Kickstarter in 2015, raising $10,739 out of a $10,000 goal. Prototype units were imagined to clip onto clothing and fit snugly into more pockets than a typical smartphone. They would have a smart touchscreen and 2G connectivity. Fast forward to today and we now see a larger LED display, LTE radios, cameras facing front and back, two (!?) headphone jacks. All of this doesn't necessarily make the Cyrcle Phone more negotiable in the hand or pocketable than a conventional smartphone, despite what is described as a more "sensual" shape. And, as opposed to Wear OS, it'll also be a challenge to fit Android 9 Pie into a circle. "What we need to do as a team is actually modify the system UI just slightly," Cyrcle Phone co-creator Christina Cyr told the BBC in an interview, "so that apps actually open up within the circular interface." Edited January 13, 2020 by robila
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