While eye candy lovers drool over such technologies as FED and SED (which are sadly pretty much dead) and OLED still requires a heft toll be taken on your wallet, LCD’s still enjoy supreme reign in the mobile display world. Hitatchi realizes that 480 x 360 just doesn’t pack the “WOW” factor that it did even just 1-2 years ago. Hitatchi however still sees a market for higher quality, higher resolution LCD screens for mobile devices. Just how much...

If you are a current Nokia 5800 owner and have a certain beef with the current resistive touchscreen your fortunes may be on the up and up.  It is being reported that the next iteration of the popular Nokia handset will sport a more accurate and easily navigated capacitive touchscreen.  According to sources at a Taiwan handset component supplier, Nokia is ordering up two million touchpanels for their new 5800 handsets that are set to ship between May and June.  Some...

If the leading edge is your thing, Kyocera has something that is going to knock your socks off.  Shown off at CTIA, the EOS is a smartphone build entirely of a foldable OLED display.  The EOS will give future users the ability to fold the phone into two configurations: portrait mode with full qwerty, and full widescreen display mode.  This is definitely some tech that I would appreciate…like right now.  However, we just aren’t their yet.  *sad face*  The...

Since the U.S. won’t be getting Phillip’s 21:9 monster cinema LCD, we’ll have to make due with Samsung’s super wide screen.  The 2343BWX is a 2048 x 1152 (good luck finding wallpapers for that) 23″ behemoth with a 5ms response time, 20,000:1 contrast dynamic contrast ratio, VGA/DVI inputs and it all comes in at 16lbs for those of you who just have to take it everywhere.  Just because the screen looks cool and produces equally cool pictures...

Apple is reported to have signed a  deal with LG in order to secure a steady supply of displays through the next 5 years.  Does this mean new cinema displays with LG technology built inside? Will Apple get exclusive first/only rights to certain LG displays? Not sure.  Apple has pre-payed for components before.  In 2005, Apple payed a totla of $1.25 billion to Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung, and Toshiba in order to pad supplies of NAND memory chips.  Doing this has...