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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. hang on... by tiled_rainbows · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wouldn't that mean that all the text on one side of the screen would come out backwards?
    How useful is that?

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  2. I don't know if I should call it cool or useless. by mikeophile · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm sure there are better uses for this tech than cell phones.

    It's all fun and games until your signifigant other sends you some homemade porn during a business meeting.

  3. Applications by ubera · · Score: 5, Informative

    It strikes me that this has a number of great applications, above mobile phone use.

    How about Roadside Signs which are readable on both sides?
    (for that "I wonder what exit I just missed feeling)

    Also, laptop displays that can be viewed on one side while an over head projector reads the other?

    I like this tech. Anyone got any numbers for brightness and power consumption?

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  4. Coming to a laptop near you by icke · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's an informative article from The Economist which explains that we should soon be able to mould screens and use them in broad daylight.

  5. 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.

  6. Re:Great.. by G-funk · · Score: 5, Funny

    But at least you'll know if she'd sending them to your mates as well :)

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  7. Re:Cool by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 5, Funny

    !won thgir sgniht eseht fo eno htiw todhsals ot gnitsop m'I

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