02-20-2004, 01:00 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Mitsubishi Displays Reversible LCD: New Technology Could Lead to Smaller, Lighter Cell Phones and PDAs
"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."
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02-20-2004, 03:48 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
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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.
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02-20-2004, 06:17 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
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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.
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02-20-2004, 09:18 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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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
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02-20-2004, 12:29 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 232
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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:
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