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.