The Paper Phone is best described as a flexible iPhone. The Paper Phone can store books, play music or make phone calls and being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers. It uses an E-Ink display and works by bending the phone into different positions to make calls, use apps, and listen to music. When you want to make a call you simply bend the device's surface and squeeze the appropriate symbols.

According to creator roel vertegaal, the director of queen’s university human media lab, "This is the future. everything is going to look and feel like this within five years. this computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. you interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen. We don’t see any camera as of yet, so it’s missing a feature that’s extremely popular with smartphones, but we know it’s in the early stages, so that could be added in the future.”