First Mobile Device With Folding Screen

16 Feb 2007 |
11:45 am

First Mobile Device With Folding Screen

Here’s a short Phonescoop video report about the first mobile device with a folding screen. Polymer Vision is the company that developed this device. The device is smaller than a typical mobile phone but its display can extend up to 5-inches. Watch the video.

Press release by Polymer Vision about this device

The device features the largest display available in the industry for the same form factor, the 16 grey levels combined with a high contrast and high reflectivity display for paper like reading experience enables comfortable reading, even in bright sunlight. Future developments include colour and moving image capable display.

The rollable display enables reading entire newspapers as well as books that can be delivered and bought through TIM’s mobile network via a regular SIM Card within the device - and then stored in the terminal’s memory which will be extremely large (starting from 4 Gigabytes available in the first models).

Combined with TIM’s mobile services, the device will permit instant access to personalised data, e-mail, news, information feeds and location sensitive maps wherever and whenever. The always-on user experience is made possible through an optimised combination of cellular (EDGE/UMTS) and broadcast (DVB-H IP data-casting) mobile functionalities as well as a mini-USB slot for PC and wired/wireless broadband data connection.

Together with superior text and graphic content, the new device will also download and play music, audiobooks and audio podcasts. Featuring single-handed navigation and control via an innovative touch sensitive LED user interface, as well as intuitively simple software, users will enjoy a new unique experience in managing, accessing relevant and personalized high value content. With the extremely low power consumption of the display, the new device will deliver an exceptional 10 days of average usage time between battery charges.

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This is basically the same screen that's in the Sony Reader. It's good for reading text, but is incapable of supporting a full PDA-type OS or playing videos.

Posted by: Peter G. on 19 Feb 2007 | 08:21 am

For the people that are interested, this is the Sony Reader that Peter G. is talking about. Right Peter? :-)

Posted by: Fresh Creation on 19 Feb 2007 | 10:57 pm