Nokia has been heavily promoting its smartphones, both AMOLED and LCD sporting phones, with its patented Clear Black Display, or CBD, technology. So what exactly is Clear Black Display and why is it good for consumers? On a superficial explanation, CBD allows screens to be brighter, crisper, and more readable under direct sunlight without looking [...]
A strike at LG’s Nanjing, China LCD factory involving 8,000 workers may have potential impact on the mobile market, which is consuming higher resolution displays for tablets and smartphones. The company had failed to reach a resolution with its Chinese workers, who are demanding equal benefits to their counterparts in South Korea, including better pay [...]
Beyond just vibrating haptic feedback, display company Senseg has developed a new screen technology that will allow you to ‘feel’ what’s being displayed on the screen by changing the friction dynamically on the company as you touch. There are numerous applications to this technology, including gaming, braille, and perhaps even topographical Google Maps that begs [...]
Come 2012, we’ll start to see more tablets pack in more pixels, according to analysts. The trend will be led by Apple’s third-generation iPad tablet, which will help lead the push, though it won’t be alone as top Android tablet-manufacturers will also increase their display resolutions. NPD DisplaySearch analyst David Hsieh says that 2012 will [...]
Furthering speculations of a smaller iPad, Korea Times is reporting that Apple is in talks with LG Display to produce screens for a 7-inch version of the popular 10-inch slate. Currently, both the iPad 1 and iPad 2 are only available in a 9.7-inch form factor, and the Korea Times is reporting that the screen [...]
Every week we learn about a new Android smartphone, packed with a speedy dual core processor, new tech and in the case of the Galaxy Nexus — Ice Cream Sandwich. What do the HTC Vigor, Galaxy Nexus and Droid RAZR have in common? The biggest thing theses devices have in common is their large screens. [...]
Nippon Electronics unveiled a new glass screen called Invisible Glass that will dramatically reduce reflection and glare when viewed under light. The product’s name shouldn’t be confused with a glass cleaner also by the same name. According to the company, the new Invisible Glass displays will have a new anti-reflective film that coats both sides [...]
PenTile, which powers the subpixel arrangement on most, if not all, of the recently released Android smartphones with qHD displays, is giving advice to customers on how to conserve battery life on those new smartphones with the high resolution, pixel-packed 960 X 540 screens. On phones like the Motorola Photon 4G, the Droid 3, and [...]
The iPhone 5 remains a mystery, and today that mystery just got a little murkier. We had been hearing about a larger display on the iPhone 5 for months now, but according to Digitimes, the iPhone 5 will keep the relatively small screen size of ht e current iPhone and a return to a metal chassis. Digitimes [...]
In a prior leak, we had learned that the Samsung Celox may be a re-vamped Galaxy S II device with a 4.5-inch display and 4G LTE network support, but could this device also sport a higher resolution HD 1,280 X 720 display with Super AMOLED or Super AMOLED Plus screen technology? Nothing’s known quite yet, [...]
When Sprint’s wholly owned pre-paid subsidiary Virgin Mobile announced the Motorola Triumph, it was hailed as a groundbreaking device in the pre-paid smartphone market, offering high-end Android smartphone features, affordable contract-free data and rate plans, and bringing an unadulterated Android experience to the masses. The Triumph, priced at $300 without a contract, the Triumph’s impressive [...]
LG Display, which has been a strong partner to Apple in launching the Retina Display on the iPhone 4 as well as procuring iPad display panels, will be making its display technology available to other manufacturers soon. This could potentially lead to Retina Display-powered Android smartphones in the near future, with 960 X 640 resolution [...]
Apple is said to be in the process of testing large high resolution displays for its iPad 3 tablet made by LG and Samsung. The panels, which are said to feature a QXGA resolution, or 2048 X 1536 pixels, will bear the same 4:3 aspect ratio as those found on today’s iPad rather than the [...]
The Nokia E6 is Nokia’s first smartphone with a front-facing QWERTY keyboard that combines a touchscreen and the Symbian^3 operating system, and that device may have the best display of any modern smartphone. According to testing by GSM Arena, the Nokia E6′s display is the most pixel-dense display on the market as well as having [...]
With the rise of 3D-capable smartphones like the HTC EVO 3D, the LG Optimus 3D and the LG Thrill 4G for AT&T, Apple may be delivering an iOS challenger in the form of an iPhone with dual-rear cameras allowing users to capture and record their memories in 3D. Newly leaked images of what is believed [...]
After much debate and prior speculation on when Apple would release an iPad with a higher resolution Retina-like Display, new evidence found inside iOS 5 suggest that Apple is exploring a tablet with a 2048 X 1536 display. The new art assets found on iOS 5 confirms what was discovered inside the iBooks app in [...]
After much rumor and anticipation about the naming of its Android tablet that it debuted at CES earlier this year, Toshiba has formally announced that the tablet would be called Thrive and would be priced aggressively at $429, slotting the tablet between the Asus Eee Pad Transformer (starting at $400) and the Acer Iconia Tab [...]
At the All Things D conference earlier, Microsoft had announced and demoed basic features behind the Windows 8 user interface, showing off the new Live Tiles UI and HTML5 and Javascript apps, but the company left some lingering questions unanswered about its strategy and how it hopes to compete with always-on operating systems like iOS, [...]
While the iPad 2 is still fairly new, having been only made available for purchase in the U.S. several months ago and is still being rolled out internationally, Apple is already looking to secure components for the next-generation tablet, perhaps dubbed as the iPad 3. Taiwan news DigiTimes is reporting that LED backlight units from [...]
When it comes to phones with big 4.3″ displays like the Droid X2 and the HTC ThunderBolt, the quality of the display is a big deal. The Droid X2 comes with a qHD display that looks beautiful indoors and is also bright enough to be readable outside without looking for shade or the right angle. [...]
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The Motorola Droid X2 is another anticipated sequel for Verizon Wireless. The Droid X2 delivers a fast 1GHz Dual Core Nvidia processor and a beautiful qHD Display for $200. The biggest weakness is a lack of 4G, but even without the higher speed uploads and downloads, it is an impressive looking phone. Verizon just sent [...]
After having announced its acquisition of Liquavista for the company’s electrowetting display technology earlier this year, we haven’t heard from Samsung until now. The company had recently shown off its electrowetting display at the SID show, and there is speculation that electrowetting may beat Mirasol to the market in the evolving display market. Electrowetting is [...]
A recent press release today suggests that Toshiba may be making a high-resolution 4-inch display for a future iPhone model. The HD display would carry a resolution of 720 X 1,280 pixels, up from the current 3.5-inch 960 X 640-pixel display of the current iPhone 4. The company says that the new display panels will [...]
Last we saw of OGT’s tablet was back in April when it still didn’t have a name. Well, OGT has decided to clear that up for us as the company has released the first promo video for the upcoming device that is being billed as the Eros, the “world’s thinnest Android tablet. While the promo [...]
While it appears that Toshiba may have registered the Thrive brand in the U.S. with the USPTO, the company may be using the Regza moniker in its home country of Japan. According to Netbook News, the Toshiba Regza will see a release in June in Japan with pricing of around 723 USD. The Japanese edition [...]
OGT is preparing to launch its own Android tablet that will boast a number of industry-leading features to differentiate itself from the plethora of Android tablets that have launched or are launching soon. The device will pack a 1 GHz processor in a slim 7 mm profile and will come in either 16 GB or [...]
Apple may be looking to more aggressively tackle Amazon and the e-reader market with its latest patent filing for a hybrid display system that can dynamically switch between an e-ink display and an LCD display depending on the application used. The Apple system would, like its graphics options on computers, not require the intervention of [...]
It looks like some early adopters of the iPad 2 have noticed that Apple’s second-generation tablet has two issues that are related to the display. The first issue is that on select units of the iPad 2, there are yellow spots underneath the display. Fortunately, though, this issue is non-major and will resolve itself in [...]
After having aggressively launched a number of tablets since the beginning of the year, Asus is prepping another tablet, perhaps running the Android operating system, that will be powered by a quad-core CPU. Details are scarce at this time, but news of the Asus’s tablet plans were revealed by company CEO Jerry Chen during an [...]
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Updated: According to BGR, this is a fake photoshop job. In addition to the circulating iPad 2 rumors, speculation on the Internet has it that Apple has bigger plans for the iPhone 5 refresh, which is believed to be announced at the WWDC developer conference this June. According to 9to5 Mac, Apple may be preparing [...]
At Mobile World Congress, Fujitsu showed off two dual-screen phone concepts, that can be used as a ‘tablet’ with both screens. Interest in dual-screen devices have grown since Sprint had introduced the Kyocera Echo as that class of device not only provides more screen area in a compact form factor when folded into a single [...]
Apple had brought the term ‘IPS’ into the mainstream with the company’s iPad consumer tablet, and there is speculation that the company may be switching to a new PLS technology in the future. According to a report from The Korea Herald, Samsung Mobile Display will be the maker behind the Super Plane to Line Switching [...]
Hitachi Display is looking to launch its HD high resolution smartphone display, which essentially crams a resolution of 1280 X 720 pixels into the size of a 4.5-inch IPS display using LCD screen technology. The IPS screen technology promises wide-viewing angles. With the display, coupled with a 720p HD video camera on a smartphone, you [...]
In a refresh to its Samsung Galaxy S series smartphone, Samsung is said to be adding an L to the moniker, making the refreshed device a Galaxy SL Android smartphone that will bring a Super LCD panel and Texas Instruments OMAP3 chipset to the smartphone. The refresh would eschew the company’s Super AMOLED display and [...]
We’ve heard of Pixel Qi’s displays in the past, and the screen is being used on the Adam tablet by Notion Ink. Another application for displays that offer sunlight readability would be for netbooks for those who either work in the field or would rather do their computing in an outdoors space such as a [...]
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12 iPhone Photography Accessories – Lenses, Stands, Filters and More To Enhance Your Photos
Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
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The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
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These days whenever someone mentions the word “Tablet” visions of the iPad or something similar dance in their heads. Not that long ago a tablet was something quite different: a Windows-based slate computer. Since the rise of the new idea of the tablet there have been a few Tablet PCs trying for relevance in an [...]
