Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones
By Vlad Savov 
posted June 1st 2010 2:55PM
posted June 1st 2010 2:55PM
posted June 1st 2010 2:55PM
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So they moved the stuff around, and that's going to make it cheaper? I have no idea how that works, but I'm all for some more IPS love.
@HikaKao. Yes...with these new more powerful and technological Touchscreens, Hitachi may be able to change their name to "Hitechi"
@HikaKao
I'd rather have cheaper desktop IPS panels myself.
@Lord Vader
Stick to controlling the Empire Vader, and keep comedy as just a hobby, because that wasn't funny whatsoever.
@month Choke him Vader, choke him!!!!!
@gargle. While he does serve a valid point I will force choke him for his insolence and name. That'll teach him a thing or too about angering a xenophobic dictator
@Lord Vader
Oooh nooo i'm choking! Aaah oooh nooo someone help me...
-_-
@month you see...
@gargle
That was sarcasm idiot
Come on, Hitachi! Show 'em how its done! Wait, what do you make again?
@R762mm Hard drives, chips, elevators, steel, batteries, nuclear reactors...
@dingus You mean those deathstars that darth vader uses
whatever they make, it needs to be clearly readable in bright sunlight. otherwise, it's a total "meh".
Super AMOLED is still better technology, provides battery life (IPS is notorious for bad battery life, why do you think you NEVER see it in laptops save for that one ThinkPad model all those years ago?) and sharper colors with better viewing angles and less light glare.
IPS will only live so long as it's still the best display technology available for desktop monitors. Once AMOLED is at a point where it can successfully compete in that market due to lower costs and better production for larger monitor sizes, it will rule.
@Prevacator The main reason for "No IPS panels in notebooks" is simply lack of supply (it being a niche product), sadly...
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=75
@Prevacator Well, the iPad has an IPS display and the battery life seems pretty good on that. Perhaps your info is a bit out of date?
@soupisgoodfood
Have you seen the size of the batteries in them? They're larger than most laptop batteries and they can still only pull off 10 hours. I can pull off close to 15 hours with my s9 and the battery is barely the size of my palm, it even smaller. Proportionally, even though the screen is obviously smaller the difference in battery sizes is not a direct ratio compared to the screen sizes. The iPad would be significantly more expensive with an AMOLED screen of that size, but I guarantee you it would have 15-20 hours in run-time. If not even longer.
As long as it doesn't lead to an oil spill it looks good to me.
I can see why they reversed the air/touch area. Interesting...
@hated one
IPS has always been a superior technology, you clown
@hated one
There are no words to describe your stupidity.
"Air Space Layer" should really read: "Dust Space Layer"
@NeoteriX
How so? It's a sealed layer between the protective glass layer on the outside and the touch panel. Most modern capacitive screens are set-up like this.
@Prevacator
Do a google search for "dust under glass" and tell me that modern capacitive screens are sealed ;)
@NeoteriX
i had the exact same thought
@NeoteriX
I've never had any experience with dust under glass with my s9.
@hated one
I was going to call you fanboy, but then you said fanboyism aside..
Now I'm just calling you troll..
@hated one You say that like the iPad owes its success to IPS screens.
@hated one
"extreme mega gargantuan success"
All your fanbois are belong to us.
@hated one
Durrrrrr
Apple didn't develop IPS.
Your name suits you.
@hated one ....
Wow, and i thought some of the other apple fanboys were stupid...
Apples takes the power hungry LCD type, put it into the iPad with a HUGE battery, says it gets 10 hours of battery life, and then they've created some new type of IPS that the entire world sans you has never heard of?
/sarcasm
Apple didn't have ANYTHING to do with the development of IPS. It was around LONG before the iPad was. And probably before their monitors (can't think of the name of them for the life of me. Need to wake up.)
So, they move the touch panel down to the display, and that makes it cheaper and higher quality?
Sure, let's go with that...
Thus may make response time slightly slower... (even if unnoticeable to the human eye, though it probably will be noticeable).
for tablets and screens bigger than 5-inch it's ok,
but for anything smaller, IPS is useless when there is Super AMOLED