PSA: don’t try to wow your friends with the key scratch test on the Nexus S — because it’s not Gorilla Glass
Before you stand (perhaps slightly inebriated) in front of a group of wide-eyed disbelievers and poke your brand new Nexus S' display with a fork, rock, key, icepick, or anything else that's hard and pointy, just remember this: it's not Gorilla Glass . That's the official word from Samsung Service's Twitter feed, a stark contrast to the hardened, tough-as-nails surface of the original Galaxy S' Super AMOLED display. No reason is given for the change, but there's an obvious theory: Corning might not have the technology to produce Gorilla Glass that's curved in the way that Samsung wanted -- or they can't produce it in the quantities asked of them -- and so Sammy decided to go with a slightly less rugged screen rather than ditching the so-called Contour Display
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: contour, contrast, disbelievers, display, friends, galaxy, gorillaglass, mobile, nexus, nexus s, obvious-theory, Plastic, sammy, Samsung Service, tough
Samsung Continuum first hands-on
If surprise was the focus of the event, we'd say the Samsung Android-powered, Verizon-exclusive (and, alas, Bing-driven) Continuum reveal was a comedy of errors -- but who cares now that we've got our hands on the Galaxy S phone, secondary ticker and all. The Android buttons themselves, as it turns out, are on the display as well -- basically, it's one huge display
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: accident-since, battery, bing-driven, continuum, display, engadget, entry, galaxy, Grip, party, result, the-display, verizon, vzw
LG giving away ten free Windows Phone 7 apps every two months
Windows Phone 7 launched with a dizzying variety of handsets . On closer inspection though, all nine WP7 devices hitting retail space in 2010 feature the same processor and display resolution.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: devices-hitting, display, handsets, media-streaming, microsoft, phone, space, windows phone 7 os, windowsmobile
HTC Bee spied by way of firmware?
Remember how the HTC Lexicon / Merge render leaked -- accurately, may we add -- via a firmware updater ? Well, it seems we might have another one here
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: beasts, bee, buzz, display, image, leak, qualcomm, seriously-might, time, verizonwireless, wildfire
Samsung Mobile Display promises 10x increase in production next year, end to AMOLED shortages
We already knew about Samsung's grand plans for expanding its display production in 2011, but now we also have a number to give us a sense of scale: 30 million. That's how many screens the new Mobile Display fab (set to go live in July) will be able to churn out in a month, a vastly superior rate than the current 3 million maximum.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: amoled, apparently-use, display, engadget, expansion, Fab, lee woo-jong, obviously-being, phones, production, revised-upwards, samsung, screens, superamoled
Sharp microchip enables dual-screen smartphones, e-readers and netbooks
Judging by the fact that our lovely planet is home to the Libretto W100 , the Kno , Onkyo DX and oodles of prototypes that utilize twin panels rather than a panel and a keyboard, Sharp's newest microchip is likely to draw some serious industry attention. Improving on an idea that began in 2008, the company has recently shown off a new chip (dubbed LR388G9) that can control two mobile LCDs and can simultaneously display a pair of different 1,024 x 480 pixel clips on a pair of screens; moreover, it can output full 1080p to any source connected via HDMI.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: display, keyboard, libretto-w100, lr388g9, mipi, mobile display, oodles, panel, planet, screen
HTC makes Super LCD screens for Desire and Nexus One official
Welcome back to our "worst kept secrets" hour, where HTC has seen fit to release a PR blast informing the world of what it already knew: the Desire and Nexus One are getting Super (duper) LCD displays to fill demand that Samsung's AMOLED division cannot .
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: blast-informing, chou, close-sibling, desire, display, experience, global, incredible, lcd, peter, screen, statement-says
Verizon confirms Droid X screen issues, but says they’re not widespread
We just got word back from Verizon regarding those flickering Droid X screens , and sure enough, the ghastly images are not a side effect of your assimilation into the Droid collective. Verizon and Motorola have owned up to a genuine problem with a small number of Droid X displays, approximately one-tenth of one percent. If your screen starts acting up you'd best contact the authorities immediately
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: authorities, defective, display, fbi, motorola, motoroladroidx, result, screen, verizon
iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G screens go head-to-head under the microscope
We got up pretty close to the iPhone 4 's retina display in our review , but we can't say we got quite as close as PhD candidates Ryan White and Bryan Gauntt of Penn State University, who have kindly provided us with some images of the screen under a microscope (along with an iPhone 3G for comparison). According to their measurements, the iPhone 3G's pixels measure 13 x 40 microns, while the iPhone 4's measure 6.5 x 20 microns, which adds up to exactly four times as many pixels. As impressive as sounds that sounds, however, it's the pictures that really tell the story -- hit up the gallery below to check them out.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: display, engadget, entry, iphone, iphone3g, kindly-provided, Measurements, microscope, phd, result, screen, the-pictures
iPhone 4′s retina display claim put under the math microscope
Samsung might have entertained us with some trash talk about the iPhone 4's IPS LCD yesterday, but this stuff is of a rather more somber variety.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: density, display, eyesight, iphone4, math-microscope, perfect, raymond soneira, vision