The design lets the device’s shape reflect its functionality: folded as a book for reading e-books, a tablet for browsing newspapers or in crowded environments, or a laptop when preparing typed documents. ‘flexbook’ is also easily
portable, serving as its own case when folded it in half.
With Samsung’s announcement of a seamless bendable AMOLED display, this flexbook concept doesn’t look like much of a concept at all. Hope someone makes it, soon.
The machine sports a 15.6-inch screen, machine metaled speaker grilles, and a razor-thin profile.
Dell is doing something different. The MacBook Air line from Apple come in two sizes: 11.6 and 13.3 inches. Dell threw out the 13.1-inch Adamo and now will re-enter the ultra-slim notebook market with a much larger 15.6-inch version called the XPS 15z.
Ortus Technology crammed 1920×1080 pixels into a 4.8-inch LCD for a resolution of 458 ppi.
ORTUSTECH newly developed LCD, however, is based on the company’s original HAST (Hyper-amorphous silicon TFT) technology, which permits higher resolution and a higher aperture ratio. Combined with optimal design under minute manufacturing technology, LCD rubbing technology and panel driving technology, the result is the new 4.8-inch LCD with small size screen and Full HD. The natural and three-dimensional power of expression is realized by achieving overwhelming higher resolution (458 ppi), which exceed discrimination limit of a human’s eye.
The 4.8-inch LCD is an 8-bit panel good for 16.8 million colors and sports a 72% NTSC color gamut. These two features leapfrog almost all mobile displays including those found on notebook PCs where the LCDs are limited to 6-bit. Viewing angles are good at 160/160 but not excellent.
There has been a fair amount of buzz on the iPhone 5, and the latest being circulated around the supply chain in Taiwan is that Apple is going to adopt a curved cover glass for its next generation model, according to industry sources.
Jonathan Ive did put emphasis on eliminating a dimension from the latest iPod touch design. The way Ive did it was to curve the back of the iPod touch. The result is an incredibly thin but rigid iPod touch.
The previous iPod nano also had a curved design, but both front and back were curved. I’d bet this iPod nano is one of the most rigid Apple devices since there are actually no sides to it; it really is a single piece of aluminum. The block of aluminum was hollowed and then the display and electronics were slid into it.
Would Ive design an iPhone like the previous generation iPod nano?
National Geographic, September 2001:
Our photographers do a lot of “sketching” with their cameras, Kent says, and, as with all artists, many of their sketches end up in the wastebasket. That’s not a waste of film, Ken notes: “The amount of film shot is no different from the number of notebooks a writer uses. That’s insignificant. It’s what you end up with that counts.”
I was reading through some old National Geographic magazines that received through Freecycle and came across this article about photography, film photography in particular. Even though I haven’t had the pleasure, I appreciate the artistic process of photographing and processing prints in film. But I am certain we ended up with an environment that was impacted by the chemicals used and the empty cans. I also appreciate the development of digital cameras, which allow us much freedom to “sketch” and throw away as many unwanted digital pictures without impacting the environment in a negative way.
The launch at Beijing Apple Store is outrageous, drawing hundreds of customers and scalpers to the store, and guess what, the iPad 2 goes out of stock in just 4 hours.
I wonder how many iPad 2s sold at the Apple Store in Beijing.
Newswire.co.kr: Samsung reports pre-orders for its Galaxy S II, an Android 2.3 smartphone with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, has hit more than three million units, the largest in the company’s history.
The New Yorker via All Things Digital:
As of this morning, that is changing. We can now offer subscriptions on the iPad, and we can give our U.S. and Canadian print subscribers access to iPad issues at no additional cost. Before long, we hope to be able to give the same access to international subscribers beyond Canada and to existing digital-only subscribers.
Pricing for The New Yorker: $5.99 a month ($1.50 an issue), $59.99 per year, or free with a print subscription that costs $69.95 per year.
The Samsung Infuse 4G is very thin at 8.9 inches but I’m not a fan of plasticky no matter how thin or light it is. But I do understand the choice of using plastic not only to make it light and keep the cost of manufacturing down, but to improve overall reception. Dana Wollman at Engadget:
This 4.5-inch superphone — the biggest Sammy has made to date — feels surprisingly light in the hands, despite its width. That’s largely thanks to its crazy-thin 8.99mm profile, along with a subtly textured backside. The Super AMOLED Plus display, which promises to be brighter than Super AMOLED as well as easier to view in direct sunlight, is simply stunning. We were seriously impressed by the punchy colors and deep blacks, although that outdoor test will have to wait for another day.
The 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display is Samsung’s biggest and is integrated into the Infuse 4G Android smartphone. The Plus in Super AMOLED Plus indicates that the OLED sub-pixel structure is RGB stripe and not PenTile Matrix. The Samsung Infuse 4G is also AT&T’s first HSDPA Category 14 smartphone bumping downloads speeds up to 21Mbps.
But over all, this is one of the most elegant, fluid, immersive apps you’ve ever seen. It’s a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets.
Our Choice, an iPad ebook by Al Gore and powered by Push Pop Press is a brilliant example of what can be done to improve the learning experience on the iPad.
DisplayBlog is written and produced by Jin Kim. Subscribe via RSS.