14 DAY TRIAL // While some phone manufacturers are only concerned with releasing mobile phones that will sell massively, others like NEC aim to improve different aspects of today's handsets. Just a few days ago, NEC has announced that it has developed a new type of bioplastic that is meant to make portable devices more environmentally sound and solve the regular heat issues.
Now the company is aiming to improve mobile phone screens. As all mobile phone users must have noticed, most handsets' screens can be quite hard to read when under direct sunlight, for example. In a press release that was posted here, NEC has developed a new type of LCD screen that aims to solve this problem and uses the System-On-Glass technology, offering a higher level of visibility in both indoor and outdoor environments with high ambient light. According to the company, the 3.5-inch screen is highly suited for installation in a wide variety of portable devices, including mobile phones, PDAs and personal navigation devices.
?Recently, the market has seen a rapid increase in the upgrading and diversification of functions for portable devices, creating demand for more information display on screens. However, increased information display must be achieved in sync with vivid color expression and improved visibility under direct sunlight to truly fulfill customer needs and expand the market. We are confident that our new system-on-glass LCD module will completely fulfill these needs through a combination of our proprietary SR-NLT and Value Integrated TFT-LCD technologies,? said Masaaki Hiroshima, Product Planning Department Manager at NEC LCD Technologies.
The new product will be exhibited at Display 2007, an event that will take place this week in Japan. NEC has already begun sample shipment.