As promised, the Gemini portable 15.6 inch displays with built-in batteries are now up for pre-order through a Kickstarter campaign. While these are hardly the first portable displays designed to connect to a laptop, tablet, or other mobile device to give you a dual-screen setup on the go, the Gemini Displays are interesting for a […]
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JDI’s new display could lead to phones that are nearly all screen
Japan Display Inc is taking the war on screen bezels to new heights. While we’ve seen a number of phones with super-slim side bezels over the past few years, there are usually pretty thick chunks of plastic or metal above or below the screen: because that’s where you hide the circuitry, speakers, and other gear. […]
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LG’s new fingerprint sensor fits below a smartphone screen (no separate button required)
Comments Off on LG’s new fingerprint sensor fits below a smartphone screen (no separate button required)Most high-end smartphones hitting the market these days feature fingerprint sensors (and some mid-range phones have them too). But there’s no real consensus on the best place to put the scanner: some phones have them below the screen, others on the back. A few companies even put them on the sides of the phone. LG […]
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Report: Chinese phone makers to use Samsung’s Edge displays
Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones feature curved glass displays that fold over the right and left sides of the screen, providing more real estate for the display and enabling support for a few extra features such as notifications or icons that are visible even when the phone is lying flat on […]
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Lenovo Screen Jacket is a projector screen… and a jacket
Lenovo now sells tablets with built-in projectors, allowing you to shine movies, photos, or other content on a screen. Don’t have a screen handy? Now Lenovo has a rather unusual solution: a designer jacket that serves double duty as a portable projector screen. The Lenovo Screen Jacket has a colorful exterior and a white interior, […]
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Dell XPS 13 Broadwell notebook review
It’s tough to make a laptop that stands out in 2015. There’s plenty of competition for the title of thinnest, lightest, best display, longest battery life, or best overall performance. But Dell managed to make a splash when the company introduced the latest version of its XPS 13 notebook at CES in January. It’s now available […]
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Corning Gorilla Glass 4 promises better drop protection for smartphone, tablet screens
4 Comments on Corning Gorilla Glass 4 promises better drop protection for smartphone, tablet screensCorning is introducing its next generation of damage resistant glass which can be used for smartphone and tablet screens. The company tested Gorilla Glass 4 by dropping it face-down ontro a rough surface from one meter and found that the glass survived the fall “up to 80 percent of the time.” Don’t tend to drop […]
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LG unveils 5.3 inch smartphone display with a 0.7mm bezel
This summer Sharp launched a smartphone with bezels so thin that it almost looks like they don’t exist. Now LG has unveiled a screen that it says has even thinner bezels. LG’s new 5.3 inch LCD panel has 0.7mm bezels on the sides. The company says that’s the narrowest bezel available for a smartphone screen. […]
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WSJ: Google is developing modular “Lego-like” displays
Google seems to have a thing for modular devices. The company plans to release its first modular smartphones based on Project Ara designs in early 2015, letting customers pick and choose the hardware for their phones. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is also developing modular display technology. The idea is that you’ll […]
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Sharp is producing 5 inch, 1080p displays for smartphones
Sharp has started manufacturing 5 inch displays with 443 pixels per inch. If you don’t feel like doing the math, that means they have 1920 x 1080 pixel displays — or about the same resolution as you’d expect from a decent 40 inch high definition TV. The difference is that an HDTV is designed to […]