Samsung Comes Up with Another "World's First" | Jan 26, 2007 |
Everyone knows what is Samsung Electronics: its probably the most famous manufacturer of all times. There are probably no people not to hear about it at least once. And there are probably no branches of electronics industry, where Samsung has not yet its share. This company is renowned for its innovation streak. I mean there is hardly a month when Samsung wouldn't announce a gadget based on an absolutely new technology.
I'm a little bit late with this post, but it's better so, than never. At the very beginning of CES 2007 (Consumer Electronics Show) Samsung has presented another brand new thing, which was once again presented as the "world's first": the thing is that Samsung has issued a two-sided LCD display.
This gadget is based on Amorphous Silicon Gate (ASG) Technology (ownership of Samsung) and it is able to show two different pictures (for you to compare: all the previous gadgets of this type were able to mirror the same image, shown on the first display).
The display is rather small (only 2.22 inches) having a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. Both screens are able to reproduce 265k colors.
The device has only one source of light; in addition one side of the display lets the light through, whereas the other side reflects the light back. The reflective side of the gadget can also function in total darkness, as it uses not only external light, but also the light coming from the other side of the display.
What the engineers from Samsung are extremely proud of is the display width, which remained the same as the usual LCD screen of this size. So when these screens will come to mass production the gadgets using such screens should become even thinner as they were: the expected sizes is at least one millimeter thinner, which is rather impressive for this industry (so expect another wave of extra thin and slim mobile phones with two displays).
I figure gadgets which will use such two-sided displays will be smaller not only in width, but overall. The saved place from using a single display instead of two will enable the manufacturers either to shrink the sizes of the gadgets or to equip them with additional functions.
It is expected that the two-sided displays will become available for manufacturing the extra-thin gadgets in the second half of this year, yet there is no word about the costs of production. Let's wait and see when the next Moto RAZR appears and what it will look like.
