Read about two forthcoming future smartphone technologies, which will definitely change your views relating to existing cell phones.
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| The most innovative transparent smartphones with dual-sided multi-touch display are coming to the market |
Transparent phone
Polytron, a Taiwan-based global system integration firm has shown an almost transparent cell phone, whose circuit board, battery and memory card are visible from outside. Its marketing has already been started by the company.
Inside
The transparent wires are used to carry electric current through the device. The company calls it Switchable glass technology. The handset will be having dual-sided multi-touch display, at both front and back sides. It uses a conductive OLED screen. For displaying images, it uses crystal molecules. While the phone is switched off, the specified crystal molecules get aligned to form a milky composition. And as soon as the device gets switched on, molecules realign forming text, images and icons, just like Sci-Fi fiction gadgets appear in Hollywood movies.
There are some parts like SIM card and SD card that are still required to be made transparent. Its dark glass cover will be covering the non transparent microphone, camera and batteries.
Polytron's general manager Sam Yu specifies that - they are making a very small sized lithium ion battery for the device, which would not be noticeable.
Though this transparent prototype is not in full functional, right now, but it is expected that such phones will be available commercially by end of 2013. And you will be able to look through such devices, very easily.
Crackproof Sapphire screens for smartphones
If you want a crack proof screen that should not be broken even when dropped on a hard surface, such dream is coming out to be true in near future. For making such far-fetched dream true, the scientists are working on a material named – Sapphire. It is likely to be cheap up to such extend that it can easily replace currently used iconic Corning Gorilla Glass, of your existing smartphones' screen. So, the next generation smartphones will be scratch-resistant as well as unbreakable, in future.
Ongoing progress
As per report from MIT-Technology review, many companies including GT Technologies are working on sapphire sheets, to make them much thinner than less or near the millimeter-thick glass, which is being used now on mobile phones.
The manufacturing companies are also trying to reduce manufacturing cost of sapphire. For this, they are applying the strategies, which are being used for reducing the cost of making crystalline silicon for solar cells.
The companies like Rubicon Technology in US, Monocrystal in Russia, and Sapphire Technology in South Korea are the other in pioneers list, those are working on lowering the cost of sapphire.
No doubt, after getting success, the technologies from these companies will be accepted by a huge market and they are going to gain their huge market share.
Let us see who wins this race and captures the largest segment of this future market.
07 Jun, 2013
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Source: http://technovisitors.blogspot.com/2013/06/upcoming-transparent-smartphones-and_7.html
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