The projection industry is in the throes of commoditization.  Today we are seeing many display engineering continue to focus on projection, even though the vast majority of projectors sold are of the low-margin variety.  When projectors began to become the mainstream back in the 1990s, a 800-lumen projector sold for $10,000.  In those salad days, [...]

MSI Wind U90
Display: 8.9″
Webcam: 1.3MP
CPU: 1.6GHz Intel Atom
RAM: Up to 2GB DDR2 667MHz
Storage: 80GB 2.5″ HD
Ports: VGA, USB (3), Audio-In/Out, RJ45
Connectivity: Bluetooth, WiFi (802.11b/g)
Color: Imperial Black, Angelic White, Loving Pink, etc.
Battery: 5.5 hours (operational)
Weight: 1kg
Availability: End of June 2008
Price: TBD

MSI’s Wind U90 is exactly the same as the U100 except for the smaller LCD at [...]

Due to stiff price competition, sources (Var Business) is reporting that Sony will exit the desktop display market. This is a shame as I just recently purchased a very aggressively priced but really great-looking SDM-HS75 17″ LCD monitor. IT resellers are saying that Sony has begun notifying them about the exit. Of course, Sony will [...]

The Treo 700P improves on the 700W with a 320 x 320 resolution screens, instead of the puny 240 x 240. Of course, it’s not Palm’s fault; it’s Microsoft’s. But no bashing Microsoft, not in this article. The TFT LCD touch display can display 65,536 colors. Before I go dive into the main point, I [...]

NEC's SA-SFT IPS panels are one of the industry's best displays and the company showcased them at SID 2006. NEC introduced a 3.5" TFT LCD panel (320 x 240) with these characteristics: viewing angles are 170 degrees all around; contrast ratios are 500:1 in transmissive mode; reflectivity of transflective displays are 15% (one of the [...]

The 3.5" hTSP will be unveiled at SID 2006 in SF on Tuesday. The quarter-VGA or 320 x 240 pixel format display has a built-in touch screen that does not require a separate PCB on top of the LCD. Samsung integrated the sensor circuitry within the panel resulting in a much thinner touch-capable panel. Hopefully, [...]

NEC will launch its NL4827HC19-01B in June. The 4.3" TFT LCD panel is wide and has a pixel format of 480 x 272. A bit on the low side, but enough to be a drop-in replacement for Sony's PSP. Sony's PSP maxes out at 200 cd/m2 brightness, but this panel has 300.The target of the [...]

This smartphone or pdaphone or whatever you want to call these convergence communication-multimedia devices has a lot going for it. I won’t discuss all of it since there are many other sites that do a much better job. I’m here to talk about the display. The pixel format is 320 x 240, better than the [...]

The new Treo 700p features EV-DO, a 312MHz Xscale CPU, 128MB of flash memory with 60MB being usable, a 1.3MP digital camera, Bluetooth, SDIO, and a 3" 320*320 pixel format TFT LCD screen. The 700p runs the Palm OS that makes use of every one of those 102,400 pixels. Windows Mobile 5.0, on the other [...]