AUO debuts 15-inch multi-touch panel, screens aplenty

AUO is never one to rest on its laurels when it comes to displays of all shapes and sizes and, if its latest batch is any indication, it looks like it's not showing any signs of letting up. One of the stand-outs here is a 15-inch multi-touch panel which, like the company's 8-inch model, has all the necessary multi-touch technology built onto the panel itself, and is able to recognize light pens in addition to fingers (it's also rolled out new 4.3-inch and 12.1-inch models for good measure). As if that wasn't enough, AUO has also taken the wraps off a new borderless 2.2-inch display (pictured above), which it hopes will soon find its way into a whole host of cellphones and portable media players, as well as 2.8-inch display that can also double as a fingerprint scanner, a 24-inch LCD that promises to display 3D images without glasses, a slightly larger 8.9-inch version of its curved display and, lastly, a 6.5-inch 800 x 480 display with a 2,000:1 contrast ratio. No word of any actual products set to use the displays, of course, but they'll apparently all be on display at the FPD International Forum in Yokohama, Japan later this week.

[Via Electronista]

[rock99rock @ Oct 27th 2008 3:03PM]

I'll take the 6.5 on Rye with a side of WM7, hold the mayo.

[Testies, Testies, 1, 2... 3? @ Oct 27th 2008 5:41PM]

Saw the photo and was like "Man, that's a big phone..."

[Vicada @ Oct 27th 2008 3:13PM]

Okay, SOMEONE please I don't care - Microsoft, HTC, whatev... wait for WM7, take this here touchscreen, and PLS once and for all PWN Apple with some real iPhone killer.

[UnixSystemsEngineer @ Oct 27th 2008 6:49PM]

Why does it matter so much to you what other people are using for their phone?

[Boarderwoot @ Oct 27th 2008 3:20PM]

I heard the UK police just ordered one of the 2.8 inch displays for every one of their officers to keep them entertained between arrests.

[Silicon Siren @ Oct 27th 2008 4:08PM]

Police in New Orleans each have a ToughBook filled with games and wireless internet so they can be busy and not pay attention to arresting people.

[Kali4 @ Oct 27th 2008 4:28PM]

@Silicon Siren

I thought they used the Toughbooks to set up redistribution points for the drugs they confiscate from the few competitors (without badges) that they arrest...

[maveric101 @ Oct 27th 2008 3:26PM]

i was gonna say i like the borderless, but they're all pretty awesome.

[Jash Sayani @ Oct 27th 2008 3:31PM]

I am getting T-Mobile G1 (Android phone).

If anyone cares, it just got unlocked: digg.com/gadgets/T_Mobile_G1_gets_Unlocked

[cwj @ Oct 27th 2008 7:04PM]

Wow. This is the closest to oblivion I've ever seen a comment ranked. Scary, in way.

[TJ @ Oct 27th 2008 3:40PM]

The headline and photo together confused me. Until I read about the borderless display, I was thinking AUO had made the world's biggest cellphone.

[Esat Dedezade @ Oct 27th 2008 3:43PM]

Word.

[Johnny @ Oct 27th 2008 3:55PM]

I thought the same thing. But first, I thought how much I liked the idea of a borderless display.

[Kinger @ Oct 27th 2008 3:58PM]

no boarders.

holy crap dude.. that's so 2010..

[scott @ Oct 27th 2008 4:59PM]

lol

it's spelled borders.


and the idea of a borderless screen on a phone sounds awesome =D

[Kinger @ Oct 27th 2008 5:18PM]

in 2010 they spell it boarders ;)

just think about 2020 - the screen wraps around the whole phone.. the phone IS the screen.. wha??

[gyros23 @ Oct 27th 2008 5:54PM]

reminds me of nokia AEON:

http://images.google.ch/images?um=1&hl=de&q=nokia+aeon

[Alexandre Emond @ Oct 27th 2008 7:31PM]

I realy like borderless display. I look forward to put that on HTC HD (smaller frame or more pixels). Cool!

[bocardo @ Oct 27th 2008 8:58PM]

wasn't there a patent sometime ago about displays which double as imaging devices? something like every pixel having a tiny camera or sensor and all those images where fused into a larger one.