Foldable Screen Phones Coming This Year
CNET News.com
A Dutch company that 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–says the device will be available later this year.
The 5-inch display of Polymer Vision’s Readius is the world’s first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs, or e-mail 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 e-book reader Kindle when it hits stores mid-2008.
“You get the large display of e-reading, the super battery life of e-reading, and the high-end connectivity…and the form factor and weight of a mobile phone,” said Karl McGoldrick, chief executive of the venture capital-funded firm, in which Philips still has a 25 percent stake. Read more…
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