Media News - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Phone with fold-away screen launched
A Dutch company has squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than
other mobile phones - by making a screen that folds up when not in use.
The 5-inch (13-cm) display of Polymer Vision's ‘Readius’ is the world's
first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email
and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket.
Polymer Vision, spun out of Philips, whetted the appetite of gadget fans more than two years ago when it
showed off a prototype. Now the gadget is in production and will go
head-to-head with Apple's iPhone and Amazon's ebook reader Kindle when it
hits stores mid-2008. Like Amazon's Kindle, the Readius has a so-called electronic paper
screen, which displays black-and-white text and images that look almost
like they have been printed on paper. The device - which will also just make phone calls - connects to the
Internet using the third-generation mobile phone networks with high data
speeds. Users will be able to set up their email accounts, news sources,
podcasts, audio books and blog feeds at home on their computer, and the
data is then pushed to the device whenever it is updated.
(Reuters)
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