Folding Screen For Mobile Phones Unveiled 54
sumj sends in word out of a Taiwanese research institute of a folding display on a smartphone that allows its screen to double in size to 5 inches (slideshow here). It's a prototype at this point. Don't bother clicking for the article's second page — it's one sentence with an interstitial before.
Right... (Score:3, Funny)
Look mommy! I did some brake-through R&D!
"But Timmy boy, it's just a 3d model!"
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Look mommy! I can't spell "breakthrough"!
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it looks like a physical mockup, not a 3D render. most publicity/promo photos are cleaned up a fair bit to give them an unrealistically "perfect" look, but these are pretty clearly touched up photos rather than 3D renders.
and if you go to the Pilotfish [pilotfish.eu] website, you'll see that these publicity shots are exactly the same look/feel as those of their other products (which have already been released).
but no doubt there'll still be some paranoid arm-chair digital imaging experts screaming "fake!" or "photoshopped
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the source for creative and innovative things will no longer be the U.S
Yeah, because there was a time when the only place where humans were able to be creative and innovative was the US. That's not even a slightly bigoted opinion.
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I meant to say that as far as what we have in the U.S. is concerned. Most of the stuff we enjoy in the U.S. is, in fact, of U.S. origin or invention. It isn't all that bigoted at all. But I wouldn't go into "who invented paper or the wheel" but I would assert that things like modern electronics and computing devices owe their creative origins the the U.S. as are other devices and implementations of related and connected technologies. Philips, in my opinion, created the CD and that is not a U.S. company.
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Don't bother... (Score:2, Informative)
Don't bother clicking for the article's first page.
It's just renders, not even a prototype.
Re:Don't bother... (Score:4, Funny)
Your making a suggestion not to RTFA?
That should just be implied around here.
You're new here aren't you?!
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Click here [youtube.com] instead. Here's another version [youtube.com]. This video's pretty shitty in terms of both visual quality and cinematography, but at least it seems legit. It shows Samsung's foldable OLED scren prototype, built into a smartphone-ish form factor. I don't recall any specifics, and unfortunately searching for it just returns a bunch of identical blog posts.
The concept is pretty exciting, but can't help but wonder about the durability of this thing, the regular wiring in the laptop screens seems to fail due to folding often enough as it is.
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Click on an Article Link?
Why the hell would I do that?
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Looks a bit like... (Score:5, Informative)
@Home (Score:2)
Now, was I the only one excited and then let down because speedread left though title left me with "Cool, Folding@home@mobile phones".
Shame.
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Dude, read slower; type slower.
did you mean...
Was I the only one first excited and then let down after speedreading through the title? Because it left me with, "Cool, Folding@home mobile phones".
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I'd really like to know why the idea of running CPU-intensive computations on your mobile phone would excite you in the first place. Devices with relatively slow CPUs running from relatively limited power sources doesn't seem to be ideal platform for distributed computing applications...
In other news... (Score:1)
"Honey, I Flexed my iPhone!"
Anyone wanna see my mock-up time machine. (Score:1)
I made it out of some christmas lights and and old Delorean.
Does it do anything..well not really.
Look mummy I can read! (Score:1)
Don't bother clicking for the article's second page -- it's one sentence with an interstitial before.
kdawson's trying to prove he reads the articles before posting them!
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Apparently still not showing much judgment in whether to run a story.
It's not really a folding screen anyway like flexible paper. It uses two borderless screens connected with a thin hinge. If you're going to show off a render, might as well make the panel itself fold.
Dibs! (Score:2)
http://harns.blogspot.com/2008/07/additional-smartphone-screen.html [blogspot.com]
I've been talking about fold out screens for years. Why laptops don't have two thin screens is beyond me. All the technology is there.
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Here is some help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy [wikipedia.org]
Entropy doesn't apply here.
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wouldn't these be just regular non fraudulent warranty claims caused by a shoddy product?
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"Why laptops don't have two thin screens is beyond me"
Maybe because most people would prefer a lighter laptop to a dual-screen one. You know they design this things for the majority of its public, right? They need to make a lot of them to turn a profit.
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Since many corporations are moving to laptops on the desktop, and more ad more people are buying laptops for the home becasue they want something small and reasonably quite.
If you don't do high end gaming, and don't care about updating your hardware, the laptop is the logical choice. This applies to most people.
In fact, many new laptops can play most games, like WoW, just fine.
Certainly there is a power issue for portability use, but if you only power the screen when the second screen is unfolded, that's no
And it's runs firefox! (Score:1)
Dashed hopes (Score:5, Informative)
I was hopping for something like a roll-up OLED screen with in a bendable plastic base.
Instead what we get is basically 2 traditional color LCD screens mounted on a swivel.
Nothing to see here ....
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move along...
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Not really a breakthrough (Score:2)
I was hopping for something like a roll-up OLED screen with a bendable plastic base.
Instead what we get is basically 2 traditional color LCD screens mounted on a swivel.
Nothing to see here ....
That looks kind of nice... (Score:1)
Not until... (Score:1)
Earth Final Conflict Phone (Score:2)
I don't know anyone who watched the series (before it went downhill and we all stopped...) Earth: Final Conflict and didn't want one of those phone/PDAs. If you're unfamiliar, there was an interesting announcement to something similar much earlier this year: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1410 [technovelgy.com] - it includes a photo of the EFC phone (opened) and acknowledges Gibson.
The fictional EFC phone still outclasses anything I've seen dreamt-up to date.
I couldn't find a youtube of the
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It's what I first thought of when seeing the story. A pity the device in Earth: Final Conflict was given such a mundane name as "a Global" without even a trademarkable variation on the spelling to allow it to be more easily referenced in popular and technical cultures. "Earth: Final Conflict Global" also doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as, say, "Star Trek Communicator"; the series-as-adjective is too long and cumbersome to say, and even fans might not pick up on "EFC Global".
The fictional EFC phone still outclasses anything I've seen dreamt-up to date.
Still, holding a camera on
Hmm (Score:1)
Ok...so the entire story is about a screen that can be folded without having a break, and the only picture provided of said screen contains a line that had to be excused...?
my phone screen already folds... (Score:2)
...unfortunately it doesn't show anything.