LG.Philips' "world's slimmest" 1.3-mm LCD for cellphones

We know you love your cellphones thin and hopefully, rigid so check the world's thinnest TFT-LCD panel just announced by LG.Philips. Measuring a mere 1.3-mm, the panel is 32% slimmer than the current gen of TFT-LCDs and about 0.2-mm thinner than those ultra-slim OLEDs. The new LCD should allow manufactures to dip below that 6.9-mm crown held by Samsung's SGH-X820 yet up the display brightness from 300 to 400 nits. So let's see, a conservative 0.6 less of 6.9-mm means we're looking at a 6.3-mm (0.25-inch) thick phone. Hear that Sammy, we'll expect nothing less, er, we mean more.

[Via Telecoms Korea, Thanks Fred for math lesson]

[TexRob @ Sep 28th 2006 8:40AM]

You guys might want to cancel that credit card, or blur it out at the very least.

[Vic @ Sep 28th 2006 8:48AM]

I was just gonna say that, your right though you can only not see two #'s.

[Andy @ Sep 28th 2006 8:54AM]

Haha, yeah, first thing I noticed was the card number too. Nice.

[Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen @ Sep 28th 2006 9:01AM]

Too Late. I just ordered me one of those 103" 1080p Plasma's

[Dan @ Sep 28th 2006 9:01AM]

Not a math person (I'm a graphic artist), but if current displays are about 1.9 mm thick, wouldn't that mean the phones would be .5mm thinner? Since the entire phone isn't shrinking, just the one compenent i think it'be about 8% slimmer.

[Lzrman @ Sep 28th 2006 9:12AM]

ya thats the first thing i noticed too! im to order me some pizza.

08 0629 9040 1047 Security #417
14/16 numbers :P wise!

Oh! its some big wig for LG:K's mastercard

[Aaron Slater @ Sep 28th 2006 9:16AM]

It's a visa, so the first number is obviously a 4. 10 possibilities remaining.

[zoara @ Sep 28th 2006 10:06AM]

There's not many possibilities for the second number either, given what we can see of it.

[dpk @ Sep 28th 2006 9:31AM]

So now we just need the expiration date, which is probably in those ridges below the "9040" section". Sweet.

[darkfireangel @ Sep 28th 2006 9:56AM]

acutally it shows all the numbers. look at the inverse numbers below the signature line. and the expiry date is the hardest to see at that angle.

[Chris @ Sep 28th 2006 9:57AM]

I've just booked the Bellagio for an engadget meetup. Order your own plane tickets, but hurry this things limit has to be coming up soon.

[Tristan @ Sep 28th 2006 10:29AM]

Aw jeeze, more miniturisation. Hm wait, ok two points: 1) it's brilliant that they can make LCD's this small these days, and other electronics - it's ace honest.

2) But PLEASE, i want a phone that fits in my hand and feels solid. Not one that i put in my pocket and can't tell it's there. I wish phone makers would keep making solid candy bar form factores rather than slips of paper.

[Jerome @ Sep 28th 2006 10:37AM]

HAHA! I did the same thing! look at the credit card number! :P

I hope to see some nice cellphone using this LCD!
Something slimmer then a RAZR!

[sweeet @ Sep 28th 2006 10:37AM]

thanks for the credit card info

*on my way to apple store to purchase new pac pro + 16Gb ram + 30" display*


idiots

[Peter Beckman @ Sep 28th 2006 11:15AM]

Based on the luhn (mod 10) algorithm, the only possible solution is 4108062990401047. All others don't pass this simple check. CVV2 code looks like 417.

http://planzero.org/code/bits/viewcode.php?src=ccardcheck.phps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

[Kaze @ Sep 28th 2006 11:34AM]

You can see that the first two numbers are "4 0" by looking at the inverse numbers.

[Cory Anotado @ Sep 28th 2006 11:49AM]

I see an AIG Insurance Logo on that card. Someone order me some car insurance. It's cool; the card's obviously already on file.

[Dheera Venkatraman @ Sep 28th 2006 12:40PM]

there aren't 10 possibilities remaining. not every 16-digit number starting with 4 is a valid VISA #. you can find the verification algorithm by googling. it involves some sort of adding in some funny way and some mod 10 business. i'm too lazy right now but if you wanted to, you could narrow it to 1 or 2 possibilities. yay.

[Frank @ Sep 28th 2006 1:04PM]

Well, I tried altering the perspective using GIMP and edge detection... the best I can come up with is 04/11 as expiration date...

Anyone else wanna give this a try.

Next stop: ImageJ :-)

[Rick @ Sep 28th 2006 2:04PM]

for anyone lookin to give it a shot: view image, save as, paint, invert colors (ctrl+I), flip 90 deg., flip horizontal, stretch vertical 150% zoom in 200 or 400%

viola! 04/11, plain as day!

anyone catch the name?

[Frank @ Sep 28th 2006 2:21PM]

Well, if we both came up with the same expiration date using different software... may well be that we're right :-)

[Mark C. @ Sep 28th 2006 2:23PM]

Quote
"thanks for the credit card info
*on my way to apple store to purchase new pac pro + 16Gb ram + 30" display*
idiots"

I have never heard of a pac pro from Apple. Wonder who the real idiot is. Hahaha.

[undersaur @ Sep 28th 2006 2:33PM]

32% slimmer LCD, not a 32% slimmer phone. The question is, how thick is the X820's LCD?

[Necrosis @ Sep 28th 2006 7:43PM]

How bout a name? Lol. I would love to start rackin up some charges for 1000 ipods/mac book pros.

[yumyum @ Sep 28th 2006 8:03PM]

Well...the card's a LG VISA and the numbers are "4009 0629 9040 1047"
So what? What (evil)deeds can you actually do with that, you bunch of geeks?
Not much is what I say.

I did however notice that engadget cunningly posted a zoomed in version of the picture, luring us helpless(and stupid) bloggers into senseless and useless bloggetry. Having fun engadget? By the way, the original picture shows a full faced woman holding the two things.

[rstr1der @ Oct 19th 2006 1:07PM]

lol, i think its funny that no one gives a shit about the phone.