Sharp unveiled at IFA 2012 a new series of high-resolution and low power display technology named IGZO, and today at CEATEC, Sharp went one step further by introducing two new 32” IGZO screens with one featuring a touchscreen and another more conventional one designed home entertainment. For those who where under a rock the past few month, Sharp IGZO technology employed advanced IGZO oxide semiconductors enables Sharp to produce LCDs with smaller thin-film transistors and increased pixel …
Sharp announced yesterday the mass production of a new IGZO based SC-Silicon full HD 5″ display in Japan, and today we finally had the chance to see this wonder in the flesh, and oh my! This gonna make some cry! I always had the utmost respect for Sharp when it comes to Display and its imaging technology and this new 5″ screen is no excpetion! Colors are stunning, confortable view angle and will fit perfectly in most Tablet or Smartphone with touch capacity! Yep I am in love and I …
Banning bezels is good for business, and ViewSonic has joined the waifish monitor club with the VX2370Smh-LED and VX2770Smh-LED displays. Offering Full HD resolution spread across 23- and 27-inches respectively, the new desktop pair clad their IPS panels in “ultra-thin” bezel gloss black frames which ViewSonic suggests makes them ideal for building a display wall of closely-abutted screens.
Of course the frames, though narrow – ViewSonic isn’t saying exactly how slim – isn’t quite “borderless” as the PR breathlessly promises, though it’s nice to see them cut down on extraneous bulk. Inside there are 1.5W stereo speakers, while connectivity includes VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs.
The panels themselves use IPS technology with the promise of 178-degree viewing angles, 7ms response times, and a 1,000:1 contrast ratio. ViewSonic says power consumption is down too, with “optimize” and “conserve” modes to the LED backlighting which can save energy (and money) at the cost of some brightness.
The ViewSonic VX2370Smh-LED and VX2770Smh-LED are priced at £110/€139 and £199/€233 respectively. They’ll each go on sale at the end of October.
Here at CEATEC, the Japanese display maker is showing of its latest portable displays. Although the vivid 1080p displays were scurried away in the corner of Sharp’s stand, we managed to grab a few photos of its 443 PPI smartphone screen yet. From these prototype samples (the screen will go into production later this month) the screen is looking pretty good, with Sharp‘s thinnest GS-Silicon technology reducing the layers between the LCD display and our eyes. Although we were told not to touch, viewing angles were also good — we could see ourselves gazing at YouTube clips on this screen in whichever smartphone it ends up on.
If you’re the DIY type that likes to whip up projects using different components and an Arduino, you’ll like the new ArduinoLCD from EarthMake. This device is an integrated color LCD that fits everything you need to add a screen to your projects in one package. The little screen measures 3.5-inches and supports touch control.
The display has an integrated 16-bit GPU and comes with a mounting bracket for easy integration into your projects. The display can be programmed using EarthSEMPL making it easy to design your own user interface. The resolution of the little color screen is 320 x 240 and it supports 65,000 colors.
The display has a 500:1 contrast ratio and can operate on 6 to 9 V of power, drawing less than 200 mA. The screen has 4 MB of integrated flash memory and can operate using USB 2.0 or Arduino Shield interfaces. The ArduinoLCD is available right now for $79 (USD).
A lot of the current top-of-the-line Android handsets have screens with a 1280 x 720 resolution on average, but that’s about to change. Sharp is wanting to bring 1080p displays to phablets of all kinds, and has announced that it has started production of its own 5-inch, full 1080p HD smartphone displays.
The new 5-inch panels will feature a resolution of 1920 x 1080, which results in a crazy pixel density of 443ppi. To compare that with the best smartphones on the market right now, the Samsung Galaxy S III’s 4.8-inch display has a resolution of 1280 x 720 and a pixel density of 306ppi. The iPhone 5‘s 4-inch screen has a 1136 x 640 resolution and a pixel density of 326ppi.
The new LCD panel includes a new pixel design and an improved manufacturing process to achieve such an extremely high pixel density. Modern CG-Silicon technology allow the screens to display crisper text, super-clear maps and more realistic HD images. We can only imagine what kind of image quality this will bring to mobile devices when it hits the market for the first time.
Sharp produces some of the 4-inch screens for the iPhone 5, which already boasts an impressive pixel density that results in a crisp and clear display. Last week it was reported that Sharp was behind on production for the iPhone 5′s screen, but company officials have said that they’re right on schedule and can cope with high demand.
Production for the 1080p 5-inch displays began at the end of September in Kameyama, Japan, and full-scale production of the new display is expected to begin sometime this month. Frankly, we’re excited to see which smartphone manufacturers will use the new displays, and whether or not we’ll see them in upcoming Samsung Galaxy devices or even HTC‘s One series.
Layoffs and loans may be dominating our Sharp coverage at the moment, but that just makes this type of news all the sweeter. The company has announced its LCD panel type 5 — a 5-inch full HD (1,920 x 1,080) display packing a Retina-busting 443 ppi (just trumping LG’s similar 440 ppi LCD). An outcome of its layer-reducing CG-Silicon technology, the smartphone-targeted screen goes into full-scale production this month and will be shown off at CEATEC Japan this very week. We’ll try to give it eyes-on treatment at the show, but you can rub your hands together sinisterly in the meantime and just think about the glorious devices which will bear it.
If you really enjoy making your own projects using Arduino, EarthMake has a new product that you may appreciate. The device is called the ArduinoLCD and as the name implies it is an LCD screen designed to use in your DIY Arduino projects. The device has an all-in-one modular design with a 3.5-inch color LCD that supports touch control.
It has an integrated 16-bit GPU and a mounting bracket as well. The display uses the EarthSEMPL programming language to allow users to design custom macros, graphical objects, fonts, and images. That easy-to-use programming language makes designing the user interface quick and easy.
The 3.5-inch LCD has a resolution of 320 x 240 and supports 65,000 colors. The screen has a brightness rating of 250 nit and supports resistive touch technology. The 16-bit GPU has 4 MB of flash memory and offers USB 2.0 and Arduino Shield interfaces.
The display operates on 6 to 9 volts of power and draws less than 200 mA. The display operates the temperature range of -20 to 60°C. For a limited time, the display is available for $79 it should make for an easy-to-use integrated display for many DIY projects.
Sharp announced this morning in Japan the mass production of its latest mobile LCD, a nice full HD 5″ display. This CG Silicon based screen comes with a goregous 443ppi pixel density and will be introduce to the public tomorrow at CEATEC.
We’ve all seen keyboards made for tablets, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen a display made for tablets. It’s called the Monitor2Go, a 15.6″ display with a built-in slot for the iPad 2 and the new iPad. What’s next? an optical drive accessory?
Mobile Monitor Technologies (MMT), the company behind Monitor2Go, is positioning their product mainly for business use. The display connects to iPads and other mobile devices via HDMI – meaning you’ll most likely need an adapter – but it can also connect to other computers via USB so it can be used as a secondary screen. In fact you can daisy chain up to six Monitor2Gos thanks to the two built-in USB ports.
The display rests on a base and can rotate and pivot up to 180º, so other people can look at the display while you’re free to poke, jab and hog your tablet’s display. Of course you can also use it as a media player, especially since it has speakers.
Here’s a demo of the display shot by ITTV, back at CES earlier this year:
Whatever your purpose, it may seem silly to carry a tablet (or a phone), a cable and the Monitor2Go instead of one 15″ laptop. But I think it will have a niche, however small. What I think is silly is that the Monitor2Go has no built-in battery and thus needs to be plugged in. That takes away a lot of its portability. To be fair, MMT did say on their website that they will release a “battery power module” soon.
I’d tell you to hold off purchasing until then, but if you’re sold, you can order the Monitor2Go from MMT’s website. It’s available in two models – one that sells for $299 (USD) and has a screen resolution of 1366×768, and one that sells for $329 because of its 1600×900 resolution.
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