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Corning, which is the company behind the popular Gorilla Glass product, announced the commercial launch of Lotus Glass, touting it as an environmentally friendly, high-performance display glass for smartphones, tablets and notebook computers.
Helping support the demanding manufacturing processes of both OLED and LCD display, Lotus Glass can perform exceptionally well in low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) and oxide thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane manufacturing environments, improving integration of components onto the glass.
Unfortunately we can’t tell you whether this is a better solution than the widely popular Gorilla Glass — except that it’s tougher and sharper, though that doesn’t tell us much — nor when the first smartphones and tablets with Lotus Glass will be released. However, we will definitely follow this industry as it directly impacts all the things we care about – mobile.
In the meantime, we bring you the words of Corning’s Andrew Filson (worldwide commercial director, Display Technologies, and vice president, Corning Holding Japan GK) – he said: “Corning Lotus Glass has a high annealing point that delivers the thermal and dimensional stability our customers require to produce high-performance displays. Because of its intrinsic stability, it can withstand the thermal cycles of customer processing better than conventional LCD glass substrates. This enables tighter design rules in advanced backplanes for higher resolution and faster response time.”
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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.
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