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First Dual-emission OLED Display in a Phone

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the both-sides-of-the-screen dept.

roc_face writes "Japanese electronics joint-venture company ELDis has come up with the world's first dual-emission organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display for a mobile phone. This means the screen can be viewed from both sides. It was on display at the annual Flat Panel Display exposition in Tokyo this week."

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  1. Sigh by FosterSJC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK Guys- the jokes about using a mirror to see both screens and spinning your phone fast are not that funny. This has serious uses, not to mention it is a great example of the mythical OLED technology finally coming to market. For example: you know how your flip phone has that single line of text for caller ID or whatever on the outside? What if it had a whole screen, and you could see the person's picture when the called. How about if it were a viewfinder for a now-smaller ELF like camera? It is clunky moving an open phone around to take pictures. Now you can have Geiss like effects when you listen to your phone as an MP3 Player too. In other words, it just provides the possibility and the convenience of doing everything (non-call related) with the phone closed, that you normally require the phone open for.

  2. Re:Applications by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Insightful
    With a bigger version of this kind of screen, you could play a proper game of Connect Four.

    It might be adopted pretty quickly by the military though. It would be a great upgrade to those plexiglass tactical map displays you see in every modern submarine movie.

  3. Re:Applications by G-funk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about Roadside Signs which are readable on both sides?

    Or they could just mount another piece of metal on the other side of the poles... I wonder which would be cheaper?

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  4. Re:Applications by wagemonkey · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It might be adopted pretty quickly by the military though. It would be a great upgrade to those plexiglass tactical map displays you see in every modern submarine movie.
    Except that plexiglass doesn't need power, is pretty resistant to shaking and twisting, doesn't mind a little water, isn't affected by EMP...