AT&T wants Panasonic to develop plasma screens for cellphones
- April 4th, 2008
- 4 Comments
We’ve been waiting for OLED to invade the marketplace, but it hasn’t yet. It will, sure, but Panasonic, with AT&T, have another idea, plasma.
Right now you can get a flat-panel HDTV in LCD or plasma, and they each have their strengths and weaknesses (which will be addressed in a future home theater feature), but one thing about plasma is that it’s got more vibrant color than LCD, which has better contrast and is cheaper to manufacture.
On a cellphone screen, though, plasma’s low-power design would actually make it a better choice than LCD for retaining a long battery life.
In addition a plasma vs. OLED war would bring out good ol’ price wars, so we win both ways. I love the future.
UPDATE - It’s a hoax.
Geno (Who am I?)
5 months ago
That would be a good idea only if the screen did not drain a huge amount of current from the battery, With newer small nano composite materials/ polymers it is likely that such screens will not have power issues, But this is assuming of course that fabrication costs are not high which would not only limit release dates and cause setbacks as well but also such delays in releases because of frabrication would allow newer cheaper screens to come forward turning such an idea into a huge loss for a company.
Geno (Who am I?)
5 months ago
That would be a good idea only if the screen did not drain a huge amount of current from the battery, With newer small nano composite materials/ polymers it is likely that such screens will not have power issues, But this is assuming of course that fabrication costs are not high which would not only limit release dates and cause setbacks as well but also such delays in releases because of fabrication would allow newer cheaper screens to come forward turning such an idea into a huge loss for a company.
Staska (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Hey guys,
You are a bit late with this story.
Turns out it wasn’t true. Probably April fools joke picked up by newswires too late:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/april-fool-ablecomm-forgets-what-day-it-is-retracts-panasonic/
Daewoo Lee (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Nonsense. Plasma can’t be manufactured cost-efficiently enough for mobile applications because of their small sizes… If you are aware of a little bit of common sense about display devices, you’ll recognize that it’s just a big joke…