Samsung’s Double-Sided LCD January 7, 2007

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For when one LCD s just isn’t good enough, Samsung has unwrapped the world’s first double-side LCD panel.

The small, widescreen 2.22in display is on show here at CES 2007 and can show different images on both sides. Right now, most double-side LCD panels can only show the reverse image of what is on the front. It uses Samsung's new double-gate, thin-film transistor (TFT) architecture. The double-sided LCD has two gates that operate each pixel instead of one, so the screen on the front can display different images than the one on the back. It measures 2.6mm thick and 2.22in wide, with QVGA (240 by 320 pixels) resolution and brightness values of 250 nits for the front and 100 nits for the rear display.

Due in the first half of 2007, this very thin breakthrough could herald a radical design change in the kind of mobile devices we end up carrying around in 2008.-Martin Lynch

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