New displays could double your phone’s battery life
Are you always on your phone, either talking, texting, or using it as a flashlight to find your way around in the dark? Well, then you know all of that sweet illumination can be a real drain on your battery. Fortunately, a startup called Unipixel is aiming to provide relief. Right now as little as 5% of the light being generated by your backlight is actually finding its way to your screen. That’s because it passes through a series of filters and light polarizers to create the image you. And that inefficiency hits you square in the battery. Unipixel has designed a display that is illuminated by LED lights on the sides of the screen, without the need for it to pass through multiple filters, allowing for a brighter screen or battery savings with less brightness. A prototype is expected by the end of the year, but we say hurry up and bring this to market! Perhaps then our BlackBerrys will have a talk time as long as our wait for 3G…oh, snap!
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article o.us poetry, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
Let’s be real they are aimingv for real numbers not and ‘n’ variable. Good idea but I thought something like this had already been released?
Does anyone know if Unipixel is the real deal. I mean are they truly on the cutting edge of this technology? Are the big boys like samsung and sony testing this technology?
This is cool no matter what anybody says and I want one in my next smartphone/pdaphone…whatever that device might be………
Haier have already produced and are retailing handsets with an OLED screen – Organic LED. Way ahead of anything that AT&T may be maufacturing. You might want to ask Haier America about the manufacturer of their OLED screen?