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In case you haven’t heard, IPS panels are making inroads into the lucrative mobile market this year, and Hitachi’s been working behind the scenes on something that should keep that momentum going. In the mainstream, touchscreen IPS displays are currently only available on Apple’s iPad (and expected to show up in its next-gen iPhone), but should Hitachi’s new production technique pan out, we might be seeing this screen tech in much more affordable devices as well. The company has fiddled with the arrangement of the touchscreen elements inside the panel, which it argues has made them cheaper and easier to produce and replace. All good news, but these things do take a while to filter through into reality, until which time you might wanna sate yourself with the latest desktop IPS displays, those ain’t too shabby or expensive either.

Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You’ve seen it in San Jose, you’ve seen plenty of it in Vietnam, and now, apparently, you’re seeing the iPhone 4G display waving at you from the center of Europe, namely the Czech Republic. We haven’t been able to corroborate that these fellas do indeed have a legitimate next-gen iPhone part in their paws, but hey, that’s what they claim. The guys from superiphone.cz have gone above and beyond the leaker’s call of duty, by taking the supposed next-gen screen under a microscope and figuring out its pixel density and display technology. According to them, the new iPhone will sport an IPS panel, much like the other handheld device Apple introduced this year, with a cool 960 x 640 resolution. This quadruples the total number of pixels from the iPhone 3GS — making rescaling of current apps a straightforward affair — while also giving Apple the right to claim the highest pixel density yet seen on a phone. You’ll find similarly zoomed-in pics of the Nexus One and iPod touch screens at the source, and the answers to all your iPhone-related questions at WWDC in a few days’ time.

iPhone 4G display put under a microscope, 960 x 640 a lock? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 29 May 2010 13:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re reading this from a Samsung i8910 or Palm Pre, you’re already holding a Cypress-powered touchscreen, but chances are you’ve never given it a thought. That’s going to change, because this week the company demoed a killer app: TrueTouch screens that can detect fingers hovering over glass, not merely on it, allowing compatible software to finally register mouseover input. In other words, you won’t actually need to touch new touchscreens to zoom in on text or perform certain commands. Cypress expects to have the tech ready in Q2, but first it might have some explaining to do — we’re pretty sure Apple successfully patented this very idea in January. Plus, KIRF iPhone? See it in action after the break.

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Cypress touchscreens track hovering fingers, make devices even more ‘magical’ (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh sure, it’s not that we’ve never seen a 4K x 2K display before, but few are both a) this small and b) this connected. Introduced over at NAB 2010, the LUM-560W is quite a different beast from the two OLED sets already shown by TVLogic. Boasting a 56-inch 10-bit panel, a native 3,840 x 2,160 resolution, 1,500:1 contrast ratio and support for the company’s own color calibrator utility, the only major bummer is the totally corporate bezel that we’re forced to deal with. There’s also too many ports to count, but we’ll try: four HDMI inputs, four DVI-D inputs, four 3G/HD/SD-SDI inputs and four 3G/HD/SD-SDI outputs. There’s nary a mention of price of availability, but you’ll probably need a nice archive of raw RED footage before you genuinely care about either.

TVLogic debuts 56-inch LUM-560W 4K x 2K LCD a few years ahead of time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For laptop users, having dual screens on the road is almost impossible unless they are willing to lug one of Lenovo’s hefty notebooks around.

Now, a Hong Kong-based company MEDL technology is showing a 13-inch lightweight, portable LED display that can be used as a secondary monitor to add digital real estate.

The LED display, simply named “The Panel,” weighs about 2.2 lbs and connects to a PC or a Mac through a USB cable. The screen has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and claims up to five hours of battery life.

The Panel is not limited for use just with laptops, says MEDL. It can connect to phones and gaming consoles such as the Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3–anything that has a USB port.

MEDL is showing The Panel at the ongoing DEMO Spring conference.

As laptops become more popular among users than desktops, the idea of having dual displays for mobile devices is catching on. Last year, Lenovo introduced a $5000 dual-screen laptop that weighed about 11 lbs and combined a 17-inch display and a 11-inch screen in a single box.

MEDL’s LED screen could be an alternative to the Lenovo monster, though MEDL is yet to announce pricing or availability for the product.