A great innovation in mobile phones: a screen that you browse.
The news yesterday of
A Reuters Company Netherlands has managed to keep a display the size of two business cards in a device no bigger than other phones with the ability of the screen to be folded when not in use.
The display of 13 cm "Readius" of Polymer Vision is the first in the world that opens when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and then rolls up so that the device fits in your pocket.
Polymer Vision, a spin-off of Philips, had piqued the curiosity of gadget fans more than two years ago when he presented a prototype of the device. Now the gadget is in production and will challenge Apple's iPhone and Amazon's ebook reader Kindle when it put on the market in mid-2008 .
"(You) has a large display of electronic reading devices, the same long battery life and its excellent connectivity ... all in weight and shape of a normal cell," said Karl McGoldrick, CEO of the company financed by venture capital which Philips still holds a stake of 25%.
McGoldrick did not specify what it will cost Readius, but explained that will be comparable to the cost of a next-generation mobile phone.
How Amazon's Kindle, Readius has a so-called electronic paper screen, which displays black and white text and images appear on paper.
The device - which you can make phone calls - connects to the Internet through third-generation networks with ultra-fast data transfers.
0 comments:
Post a Comment