Neon Gen phone concept with twistable display

Posted in Concepts by Conner Flynn on October 29th, 2010

The Neon Gen concept phone has a slim and sexy design. It also features a rotating display. The phone consists of two parts and can easily be slid open from the side, then you twist the top half to reveal the display.

The display supports touchscreen input and uses clips instead of screws to make assembly easy and presumably cheaper. The slim design makes it easy to carry with you in any situation. It might not be long until we see this sort of design being offered by manufacturers.

Larger display iPhones coming?

Posted in iPhone by Conner Flynn on October 6th, 2010

Wall Street analyst from Kaufman Brothers, Shaw Wu, recently said that sources familiar with Apple’s overseas suppliers see larger as well as smaller displays making their way to iPhones very soon. Mr. Wu says:

“We believe Apple moving to a more complete iPhone product line makes strategic sense in that its iPhone 4 addresses only the high-end of the market. We think Apple should take a page out of its iPod playbook where it has had a lot (of) success with a 3-tier strategy addressing entry-level, mid-range and high-end, making it difficult for competitors.”

Apple releases new 27-inch LED Cinema Display

Posted in Apple by Conner Flynn on July 27th, 2010

Apple has just announced its latest 27″ LED Cinema Display. It features a stunning 2560 x 1440 resolution and 60% more screen real estate compared to its predecessor. It has a built-in iSight video camera, microphone and speakers, a powered USB 2.0 hub and universal MagSafe connector.

This good looking $999 monitor also sports a beautiful 16:9 edge-to-edge glass display on an aluminum stand with an adjustable hinge, so that tilting the display requires almost no effort at all. Let’s not forget the 178 degree viewing angle.

Microsoft display could make 3D glasses obsolete

Posted in 3D by Conner Flynn on June 15th, 2010

The current generation of 3D TVs all have one large and dorky problem. The glasses. Nobody wants to pay extra for a pair and nobody wants to wear them. We need to get rid of them. Microsoft may just do that.

The company has been working on a new lens that would allow for 3D video with no glasses needed. The display tracks the viewers eyes using an onboard computer. Then it delivers a different image to each eye. It can even handle two viewers at once. The problem right now is that it has a viewing angle of only 20 to 40 degrees.

Huawei intros 3G pocket router with OLED display

Posted in Routers by Conner Flynn on June 13th, 2010

Here’s something you don’t see everyday. Britain’s 3 has added a portable 3G router with its own display features. Huawei’s E585 has a monochrome OLED display that shows battery life and connection as well as the amount of data used. There’s also a new web-based setup page with the router and it can be configured for Linux PCs and Macs and Windows.

The E585 will continue charging even while it shares its 3G connection over Wi-Fi with up to five other devices. It also doubles as storage with a microSDHC slot, but we don’t know if this will act as network-attached storage. 3 UK will sell Huawei’s router in July for £50 (or $74) on a pay-as-you-go basis.

HP’s new 30″ ZR30w display with over a billion colors

Posted in HP by Conner Flynn on June 1st, 2010

HP’s new ZR30w S-IPS LCD display is impressive. It boasts a color resolution of 30-bits per pixel, which means some 1.07 billion displayable colors. That’s about 64 times as many as you can see on an average LCD.

The ZR30w features a 2560 x 1600 resolution, that’s over 4 million pixels. It’s being targeted at small businesses for a price of $1,299. Sadly that just means higher resolution work, while you go home to your not as colorful HDTV.

Sony develops “rollable” OTFT-driven OLED display

Posted in News by Conner Flynn on May 26th, 2010

One of the benefits of OLED displays are that they can be flexible. Now Sony has a new ultra thin flexible OLED display, just 80µm-thick, which is less than a strand of hair. The OLED display measures 4.1-inches and has a resolution of 432 x 240 pixels and a contrast ratio of under 1,000:1.

They claim that it’s the first OLED panel that can play videos while being rolled up and stretched around a cylinder (like a pencil) with a 4mm radius.

Samsung shows off 19-inch transparent AMOLED display

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on May 24th, 2010

Samsung has another world’s first on it’s hands. This time a 19-inch transparent AMOLED display, taking the technology up a few notches from the 14-inch model they were showing off at CES in January. The company has now achieved a 30 percent transparency on its designs, and so they have some big ideas on how they want to use the technology.

Samsung sees it used in storefront advertising, just like in the sci-fi movies, HUDs for helmets and even car windshields.

Some HP Envy 15 units shipping with Display and Webcam issues

Posted in HP by Conner Flynn on May 21st, 2010

The HP forums are going crazy over the popular Envy 15, because some buyers are receiving models with screens that randomly go blank and/or webcams that only show full color under fluorescent light.

Looks like HP is on it though, offering a full refund or repair. However according to one user, two trips back to HP could not fix his laptop’s webcam. It isn’t all HP Envy units, but 20 pages of complaints on the HP Envy Forum means that something is clearly wrong.

iPhone 4G to get a 960 x 640 display?

Posted in iPhone by Conner Flynn on May 17th, 2010

We’re hearing more rumors about the upcoming iPhone 4G. The latest rumors say that the iPhone 4G will be getting a 960 x 640 pixel display. If the rumor is true, the device will not only get a higher resolution display, but will also a higher quality IPS (in-plane switching) panel along with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology to make it easier to read when outdoors. All of those changes would be welcome.

LG Display and Prime View International have been named as the suppliers for the new display. Apparently the panel will be a third thinner than previous models, which makes room for larger battery. Again, nice news if true. How about 512MB of RAM to double the iPhone 3GS and iPad?

Samsung W960 is the first AMOLED 3D display phone

Posted in 3D by Conner Flynn on May 9th, 2010

Damn you Avatar, look what you’ve done. Now everything has to be in 3D. Now Samsung is getting ready to introduce the world’s first mobile phone featuring a 3D display. The Samsung W960 is expected to support a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen that will display 3D images without the need of any special 3D glasses.

Looks like this is just for the South Korean market for right now. The W960 is powered by Samsung TouchWiz 2.0, will support HSPA, DMB-T TV tuner, Bluetooth and microSD card slot. Nothing yet on the release date or the price, and we have no idea when the phone would be made available outside of South Korea.

Fujitsu Laboratories shows off world’s highest-level color e-paper display

Posted in Fujitsu by Shane McGlaun on May 7th, 2010

Before the iPad was official, many were predicting that the print market could be saved by eReaders with color screens for reading magazines and other content. Now that the iPad is on the market, it will steal a lot of the thunder from eReaders color or not.

However, there is no denying that an e-paper screen is easier on many eyes than an LCD like the iPad uses. Fujitsu Laboratories has unveiled a new color e-paper screen that is much better than its previous color offering.

World’s Largest Curved Plasma Display

Posted in Plasma by Conner Flynn on May 2nd, 2010

Sure, your home 65 inch plasma television is big, no one is taking that away from you. But it’s nothing compared to this monster plasma recently installed at Japan’s Kansai airport. This behemoth measures 200 inches, approximately 13′ x 10′ or 4m high x 3m wide. How would you like to play games and watch movies on 200 inches of plasma display?

The display is made up of 3 curved plasma displays all joined together. They installed it in the airport to give airport information but also info on traditional Japanese culture, like sightseeing locations and public entertainment within the Kansai area.

iPad 2 already in development, with OLED screen?

Posted in iPad by Conner Flynn on April 19th, 2010

Looks like Apple may have version 2.0 of the iPad in the works already, with sources claiming that development has already begun. And if you believe the rumors, the screen is about to get an OLED makeover.

OLED displays are more vibrant than the LCD panels currently in the iPad, but so far are too expensive to use cost-effectively in anything larger than a mobile phone. However, analysts are predicting that OLED prices will drop eventually, but not until at least 2011. If the iPad 2.0 was to have an OLED screen and be released with Apple’s traditional update schedule, it’s unlikely the prices would drop in time.

Newsight 70-inch 3D display don’t need no stinkin’ glasses

Posted in 3D by Conner Flynn on April 19th, 2010

The latest in glasses-free 3D displays comes from Newsight, who recently demonstrated a series of 3D naked-eye displays which include a massive 70-inch model. The display was exhibited in Finetech Japan 2010 in Tokyo and is said to be the largest in the world.

So how did they go so big with 3D and not require glasses? Thanks to Newsight’s parallax barrier technology. We don’t have any specs on this yet, but when we find out more from Newsight, we’ll let you know.