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Japan Display has been busy unveiling high-resolution screens recently. Now the company’s got something a little different: a crazy-bright screen.
The company’s new 7 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel tablet screen supports peak brightness of 1000 nits for outdoor visibility, although it’ll probably run down your battery pretty quickly at that level.
Indoors it can shine at up to 500 nits while using about 40 percent less power than a typical LCD (according to Japan Display).
Here’s a roundup of tech news from around the web.
- JDI unveils a 7 inch full HD display with 1000 nits preak brightness
The screen is an IPS display with 323 pixels per inch. It uses the same “WhiteMagic” technology as the 7 inch WXGA screen announced in May, but it’s even brighter. [Phone Arena] - Asus shows off a 14 inch USB touchscreen display
Don’t have a touchscreen in your laptop… or a second display? Now you can kill two birds with one portable monitor. [Engadget] - Intel introduces $1 million RealSense App Challenge
Intel’s RealSense platform offers hardware and software for 3D motion controls… but it’s only as good as the apps that can run on the platform. So the company is offering $1 million in bounties for developers interested in creating RealSense-compatible apps. [Intel] - Intel pushes wireless… shows off wireless charging, display, docking at Computex
Say goodbye to that jumble of cables by your PC. [CNET] - Now you can root an original Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch even if it’s running Tizen
There’s still no simple way to restore Android after updating to Tizen… but now you can poke around at the guts of the new operating system. [xda-developers] - From Microsoft Computex keynote, it looks like BLU will start making Windows Phones
Other new PC and phone partners include Hair, VIDO, Luckystar, InFocus, and Prestigio. [PR Newswire] - Tizen 3.0 Common milestone release
The first Tizen 2.2 phone hasn’t shipped yet, but the folks behind the Linux-based operating system are already working on Tizen 3.0. Key new features include 64-bit support for Intel and ARM architecture, multiuser support and a Wayland display server. [Tizen]
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So if you want to nitpick you’ll need a really good pick.
” it’ll probably run down your battery pretty quickly at that level”
No, it will not:
“At the same time, on account of the “high permeability of the RGBW pixels,”
peak brightness outdoors can receive a twofold boost, reaching up to
1000 nits, and making the display visible even in direct sunlight, which
should bode well for all beachgoers. In this ultra high brightness
mode, the 7″ display will still draw as much power as a conventional LCD
panel outdoors, so on average the battery life of a tablet equipped
with this screen, will still be much better than the typical endurance
range.”
I don’t think I’ve had my Nexus 10 above 25% brightness in months and it’s usually well below that, though I don’t use it outside.
Oh the eye-strain, I’ll just take my e-ink and go back down this well. Seriously though efficiency improvements are always good, but personally AMOLED on full brightness burns my eyes so hope for a granular backlight controller