Cellular-Book with rollable display
Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision are partnering to create the ‘Cellular-Book’ - a new mobile device with a rollable display. They will show off the device at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on February 12th. Apparently, it’s main purpose is to read newspapers, books and personal data.
According to Mobile Magazine, “it sports a 5-inch screen that rolls out and displays 16 grey-levels on a high contrast, reflective light paper display by Polymer Vision. Since there is no back-lighting it cannot be read in the dark, but they say it works in bright sunlight. Rather then rolling out the screen as we would expect with this technology, the Cellular-Reader unfolds from a set of three hinges which expands the display to its maximum size of 5-inches.”
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[…] This is Polymer Vision’s (a subsidary of Philips) Readius, a new device featuring a foldable display. The rollable display enables reading entire newspapers and books, delivered and bought through TIM’s mobile network via a regular SIM Card in the device - and then stored in the terminal’s memory which will be start from 4 GB in the first models. The 5-inch display has 16 grey levels combined with a high contrast and features high reflectivity. Future developments include colour and moving image capable display. I wrote about this at the beginning of the month, and some people are still calling this the ‘Cellular-Book’.Watch… […]
February 16th, 2007 at 6:30 pm