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Leader in electronic paper display technologies, E Ink Corporation, announced that Japan’s Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications has selected E Ink Vizplex Imaging Film based displays for its newest family of mobile phones. These are the world’s first clamshells to use E Ink’s electronic paper technology on the outside.
The Hitachi W61H phone was the first of these product releases, featuring a secondary display utilizing E Ink Vizplex display on the external surface of the phone. The other phone using the same technology, Casio Model G’zOne, will be launched during the summer through KDDI.
Apparently, E Ink’s electrophoretic display was chosen for multiple reasons, including wide viewing angle, sunlight readability, ruggedness, ultra thin profile and low power consumption. These benefits, furthermore, allow for stylish secondary displays that do not add weight or thickness to the display, hence allowing longer battery life.
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
