No more Apple Stores and new batteries

Today is the Good Day: no more Apple Stores woo, hoo! Yes, dream of all those that hate Apple just came true...
No, unfortunetly no. Apple will just  rename their stational stores from Apple Store, Location to Apple Location. Why? From marketing psychology reasons mostly - they want people to assosiate those places more with meeting and technology then buying itself. In some locations Apple have plans to make a weekend movie projections.
Will it work? Well, if Apple knows how to do something really good it's deffinitly selling things and they themselvestalk about Apple Stores as biggest of their product, so yes.

Now another topic: new type of batteries in smartphones (and not only).
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology some time ago created a start-up called SolidEnergy and now they have more than $12 milion from investors and will start work.
In 2015 they started with a theorie and design of lithium - metal battery. Accumulator for mobile devices, drones , electric cars and others which allows double density in charge. What it means? Half the size or double capacity or anything between.
Now one of biggest problems with making phones thinner or making usefull bending models are mainly battery. This project seems ideal solution for Samsung, LG and Lenovo - corporations that race to make first bending smartphone.
We can't expect those kind of batteries this year but in near future? It would deffinitly make easier life for all those futuristic designs to comme true.

So, are bending phones future?

Hello,
First of all, sorry but I had long weekend and that means - no free time.
Now, to the topic. Bending phones, a wet dream of LG and Samsung and... some of us. And to be as understandable as possible - we are here talking about bending phones and not (permanent) bended like LG Flex/Flex 2.
I want to talk about future phones like one on gif above or like one on image below.

So two big players searched future of design it this solution: LG and Samsung, bah their first bending models should hit shelves next year.
But there is one who we ignored, who gived us hint in June that  he and not they will be the first:
Lenovo.
Yes my friends, in June on Lenovo Tech World San Francisco 2016 they showed concept of bending phone, but none thought then that they will make that kind of joke to LG and Samsung.
In clip promoting Lenovo on IFA Berlin 2016 we can see bending phone and tablet and they looks like working models:

And now about question in name of this post. Not, necessary, companies with access to this technologi will deffinitly try to promote it but for now it will be more a gadget or convinient solution.

How convinient? Well that depends. You can halve the length or width with price of thickness to easier transport it, protect the screen or bend it when it will be easier to use that way.

But real future in my opinion are bodyless costructions or only screen design. We are years now from point when it will be possible to contruct devices like this but I think it will be standard in... say 2028? Maybe earlier.

And banding - it's not necesery and it will have its disadvatages but it's goot to go forward because what stays the same that goes backwords in development.