Mitsubishi Displays Reversible LCD: New Technology Could Lead to Smaller, Lighter Cell Phones and PDAs

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114839,tk,dn021904X,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article...n021904X,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div>"Mitsubishi Electric is showing off a new LCD that can be viewed from both sides. The display, which the company says is a world first, was developed initially for use in clamshell-type cellular-telephone handsets and could help make such telephones thinner and lighter. At present, many clamshell-style handsets have two displays: a large main display facing inwards and a smaller sub-display that faces outwards and is used to display basic information when the phone is closed. Each of these displays typically consists of a glass LCD panel on which the image is shown, and a backlight that sits behind the panel and projects light through it so the image can be clearly seen by viewers."

[thadrool]

Won't this basically be vaporware with OLED screens? As I understand it, OLEDs are thinner than paper so putting two screens back to back might even take less space than this new technology.

[Gremmie]

This sounds very similar to a past front-page article about merging the two LCD screens in a cell phone to a single small screen. The last article was a bit more descript about how much would come off, I think it was a very marginal.

[surur]

What was interesting in this article was that a double sided LCD was actually cheaper than the old setup by a 1/3, so we should see this technology being adopted fairly quickly.

Surur

[madbart]

the sooner it gets to market the better. there is only one gadget i love more than my ppc & that's my mobile phone ! :lol: