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10/02/11 19:24
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#183964 - Don't believe in flexible phones
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I don't see any flexible mobile phone infront of me.

What I was thinking about is a "normal" hard phone with a "normal" LCD/OLED display in "normal" pocketable size. But where you can draw out a tablet-sized non-lit display. Consider a pocket-sized phone with an optional 10x20cm (4x8") extendable display.

A big problem with todays smart phones is that the display is not working for people with impaired vision. The displays are getting larger, but at the same time getting higher-and-higher resolutions. A person who breaks their glasses may be totally unable to figure out how to call an 112/911 alarm number, because they can't see how to find the phone application or the buttons of the virtual keypad.

An alternative is to integrate a projector, where flat and neutraly colored surfaces may be used. But a problem with a projector (unless a laser projector with very thin beam) is that it needs to be focused. So changing the distance betwen surface and phone will both change the size of the image, and will also make the image blurry.

List of 24 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
flexible displays            01/01/70 00:00      
   I like and want            01/01/70 00:00      
      Yeah I know            01/01/70 00:00      
         Don't believe in flexible phones            01/01/70 00:00      
            O.K            01/01/70 00:00      
            I've long awaited such a thing ...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Already exists computer as phone            01/01/70 00:00      
                  That's different ... it doesn't work on the cellular network            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Yes, it does            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Skype            01/01/70 00:00      
                           That works, but it's not what I want            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Normally no bandwidth problems            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 A huge mobile phone with mega-size display            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    Well, I want a full keyboard ... not just a 10-key keypad            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Yes, but 3G/4G is useless for internet access over here            01/01/70 00:00      
                           the thing is Richard            01/01/70 00:00      
                              I understand that, but ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Already there since several years            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    anyway the thing is            01/01/70 00:00      
                           phone with PC-sized keyboard and 20" display            01/01/70 00:00      
                              No ... that one's only a 15" display ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Why don't you just make yourself one?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              I haven't given that enough thought ... yet ...            01/01/70 00:00      
         technology for its own sake            01/01/70 00:00      

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