AUO debuts 15-inch multi-touch panel, screens aplenty
By Donald Melanson 
posted October 27th 2008 2:57PM
posted October 27th 2008 2:57PM
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]
[Via Electronista]
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.
Why does it matter so much to you what other people are using for their phone?
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.
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.
@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...
i was gonna say i like the borderless, but they're all pretty awesome.
I am getting T-Mobile G1 (Android phone).
If anyone cares, it just got unlocked: digg.com/gadgets/T_Mobile_G1_gets_Unlocked
Wow. This is the closest to oblivion I've ever seen a comment ranked. Scary, in way.
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.
Word.
I thought the same thing. But first, I thought how much I liked the idea of a borderless display.
no boarders.
holy crap dude.. that's so 2010..
lol
it's spelled borders.
and the idea of a borderless screen on a phone sounds awesome =D
in 2010 they spell it boarders ;)
just think about 2020 - the screen wraps around the whole phone.. the phone IS the screen.. wha??
Saw the photo and was like "Man, that's a big phone..."
reminds me of nokia AEON:
http://images.google.ch/images?um=1&hl=de&q=nokia+aeon
I realy like borderless display. I look forward to put that on HTC HD (smaller frame or more pixels). Cool!
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.