The newest LCD displays are waaay slim

Small is powerful, and slim is beautiful, but you have to wonder how sturdy something small and slim can be, especially if it’s an expensive piece of technology. For LG Philips and Toshiba Matsushita, this new revolution of slim and thin comes in the form of ultra-slim liquid crystal displays.

LG Philips came out with their super-thin display last week. Measuring only 1.3 millimeters (mm), it’s about as thin as a credit card yet maintains a high resolution for its size. Toshiba, on the other hand, showed off a prototype of something even smaller this week. It’s a prototype 0.99 mm display that weighs in at an astonishing 3.5 grams. Better still, this LCD supports 240 x 320 pixel resolutions on a 2-inch screen.

This can only mean that with smaller displays we’re bound to see cellphones that also smaller. It’s fun to think about for the sake of mobility, and definitely worth using if you carry a cellular phone very often. The only complaint we can think of for such a high quality screen: Can we get a new one if we accidentally sit on it? They look really fragile, even if they potentially have better resolution and picture quality than a high-definition LCD television. Guess we’ll have to ask the manufacturers next year, when they plan to release it on actual phone models.

Small is powerful, and slim is beautiful, but you have to wonder how sturdy something small and slim can be, especially if it’s an expensive piece of technology. For LG Philips and Toshiba Matsushita, this new revolution of slim and thin comes in the form of ultra-slim liquid crystal displays.

LG Philips came out with their super-thin display last week. Measuring only 1.3 millimeters (mm), it’s about as thin as a credit card yet maintains a high resolution for its size. Toshiba, on the other hand, showed off a prototype of something even smaller this week. It’s a prototype 0.99 mm display that weighs in at an astonishing 3.5 grams. Better still, this LCD supports 240 x 320 pixel resolutions on a 2-inch screen.

This can only mean that with smaller displays we’re bound to see cellphones that also smaller. It’s fun to think about for the sake of mobility, and definitely worth using if you carry a cellular phone very often. The only complaint we can think of for such a high quality screen: Can we get a new one if we accidentally sit on it? They look really fragile, even if they potentially have better resolution and picture quality than a high-definition LCD television. Guess we’ll have to ask the manufacturers next year, when they plan to release it on actual phone models.