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IGZO technology and smart TV

Paul Merak — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:59:59 +0000

Intel recently declared that they expected high-resolution displays to start appearing in notebooks late this year. Sharp has now announced that they have commenced mass production of the first displays to make use of Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) semiconductors, which enable manufacturers to use smaller thin-film transistors with increased pixel transparency, which may mean [...]

Atmel Twistable Touchscreen

Paul Merak — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:11:51 +0000

Atmel is a tech manufacturer specializing in touch-screens, such as those found inside the Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The most recent technological development for the California-based firm is XSense, which is an ultra-thin, flexible, film-based touch sensor which can be bent and twisted without distorting displayed images, let alone cracking or splintering [...]

Lotus Glass Teamed With Samsung OLED Displays

Paul Merak — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:12:46 +0000

Corning’s Gorilla Glass famously makes the iPhone and several premium smartphones a bit mre likely to survive falls without a broken screen, but a lesser-known product made by Corning is Lotus Glass, which can be laid on top of OLED dislays and will flex without cracking. Lotus Glass makes curved displays possible, and helps screens [...]

Toshiba’s 6.1 inch 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display

Paul Merak — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:22:35 +0000

Time for a paradigm shift. Very few people find anything to complain about with the the iPhone 4S 3.5 inch 2560 x 1600 pixel Retina Display. Now Toshiba has unveiled a development 6.1 inch 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display. To save you from doing the mental arithmetic that’s a pixel density of 498 pixels [...]

Screen Manufactures Realign Forces

Paul Merak — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:31:45 +0000

Hardware manufacturers are all set for a bumper 2012 for tablet sales – so much so that TFT display companies have re-oriented their business plans towards smaller devices. Weak demand has led to the price of larger, notebook-sized LCDs crashing. Tablets still make up a smaller proportion of the total market than notebooks and TV [...]

Toshiba Launches USB-powered Second Screen

Paul Merak — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:08:48 +0000

Toshiba, not content with announcing last month the launch of a lightning-quick 15000rpm hard drive, has now unveiled a USB-powered second display. The 14-inch, 1366 x 768 display plugs into a USB-2 port. Although second displays are estimated to increase productivity by 30%, the 795g of extra baggage might be a bit large to carry [...]

Microsoft Palmtop Desktop

Paul Merak — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:30:47 +0000

Developers at Microsoft have developed a system to make any surface touch-enabled. They call their system Omnitouch, whereby a connected camera and pico-projector enable any surface – wall, paper, even a user’s hands – can serve as a touch device. Similar to Kinect but short range-enabled, the camera reports real-world 3D co-ordinates and then tracks [...]

Delta Electronics Unveils e-paper for 2012

Ashley — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:13:20 +0000

The IFA in Berlin has given an insight into the future of mobile technology. Taiwanese manufacturer Delta Electronics revealed its flexible e-paper which it expects to hit the mass amrket in 2014. It offers 960 x 280 pixel colour based on QR-LPD technology. A full range of panel sizes will stretch from 4.1 to [...]

Pixel Qi displays growing big

Paul Merak — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:40:00 +0000

Pixel Qi displays can function as a full color LCD display as well as a grayscale display that does not require backlighting and only relies on ambient lighting to work. This is pretty much like the E-ink but the difference is that the E-ink has a much slower refresh rate and the Pixel Qi displays [...]

7 inch Blackberry Playbook in ad

Paul Merak — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:06:30 +0000

A 30 seconder TV ad was released by Research in Motion revealing the Blackberry Playbook. The good thing about this ad is that it really shows the great side of the tablet especially the multitasking capabilities. In the ad, you will see the app switching support which is one of its greatest strengths. The high [...]

Mirasol Sunlight-Readable Display

Paul Merak — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:02:14 +0000

It is not only Pixel Qi that offers low power display solutions in the CES. With Pixel Qi, you can turn on the LED back lights for full color and turn it off for grey scale viewing. The Mirasol display from Qualcomm is a color display that you can pleasantly view in ambient lighting. Right [...]

Flexible display OLED from Samsung hypnotizes the world

Paul Merak — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:03:03 +0000

In recent years where the hype of the flexible screen has been shown, most or all of them have been left out as mere concepts or just back in the drawing board type of thing. Now of course something is bound to come up in this department. Samsung Mobile Display is geared to give a [...]

I-O Data USB display for your netbook

Brooke — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:42:58 +0000

The 10-inch USB powered displays seem to be all the rage these days. This 10.1-inch display is equipped with touchpanel and packs the same amount of pixels that one finds in a standard netbook (1024x600). The monitor is powered by a single USB cable and comes with 144cd/m2 brightness and a 500:1 contrast ratio. [link]

Now, if they could do something about the ridiculous 250 dollar price tag (21,950 Yen)

Acer Apsire AOD250 and Aspire AO751H now on sale in North America

Peter — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:11:18 +0000

Acer has recently made available two new netbooks which were launched in Asia few days back, Aspire One AO75 and AOD250. The 11.6-inch Aspire One AO75 is available for an affordable price of $379.99 and AOD250 is available at $298.99 price tag.The AO751H is a hybrid of netbook and notebook. It has the size and feel of a full feature notebook, but lacks a powerful processor and a DVD drive.Click on read more to read the specifications and press release

iUnika GYY – Low-cost solar powered netbook

Paul Merak — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:17:48 +0000

Netbooks going eco-friendly! That is something we do not hear everyday. Do we? iUnika has launched a netbook that is powered by solar energy, the iUnika GYY. The netbooks weighs just 700gm and runs some proprietary version of linux on its 400MHz processor.It comes with a WVGA (800 x 480) 8-inch display. It uses 64GB SSD for storing your data and comes with meager 128MB RAM. 128MB RAM may seem low, but since it running not a bulky OS, we are not complaining. Cost? Just 160-euros and hitting the shelves in the month of June.No need to carry portable chargers! Charge on the go, thanks to the wonderful sunlight!

HTC TOUCH HD as a Mobile Internet Device (MID)- Review

Paul Merak — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:55:22 +0000

This time we are going to review it from a different perspective - AS A MOBILE INTERNET DEVICE. If you have been following the windows mobile scene from the past couple of years, you must have observed that the display size of the mobile phones has decreased in size over the years. Whether we all like it or not, but it was the iPhone that brought the big screen to attention to the mobile phone manufactures.

Stone announces Neo 101 netbook

Peter — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:19:07 +0000

The Stone Neo 101 will join the netbook family with the usual netbook-ish specifications even though being priced at a high £275 (about $400). It will be available in UK, from 1st May, with an unusual three-year warranty. Its features include:

10.1-inch widescreen display
1,024 x 600 resolution
optional internal 3G
a pair of USB ports
34mm PCI-Express Card expansion

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HTC TOUCH VIVA review

Paul Merak — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:52:38 +0000

With the economic recession still plaguing the world economy, the normal consumer wants to get more features at the lowest price possible. This is where the HTC TOUCH VIVA truly shines. This pebble shaped Windows Mobile device packs a lot of features at a diminutive price. Do we recommend it? Read the review to find out!

PROOF: Screens of HTC TOUCH DIAMOND and HTC TOUCH PRO are NOT same [Windows Mobile]

Paul Merak — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:48:02 +0000

Let the pictures say the story. The one on the left is the HTC DIAMOND and the one on the right is the HTC TOUCH PRO. As you can see, on the HTC DIAMOND’s display has much more saturation and the image looks much more dense on the Diamond’s display as compared to HTC TOUCH [...]