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By David Rothman

Random House and others plan to market books for tiny cellphone screens. But could technology be about to leave them behind even sooner than thought–with larger screens through rollout tech? A five-inch, 320×240 rollout display using E Ink technology will be in production in two years, according to a Philips news release. Here’s more:

…With four gray levels, the monochrome display provides paperlike viewing comfort with a high (10:1) contrast ratio for reading-intensive applications. Even in bright daylight, the display is easy to read. Using a bi-stable electrophoretic display effect from E Ink Corp., the display consumes an exceptionally low amount of power. It is thus ideally suited for mobile applications.

Increasingly, business users are demanding access to broadband information while on the move. Rollable displays are projected to be the primary solution to the consequent demand for larger displays in mobile devices — without increasing device size, weight, or power consumption. Philips Polymer Vision’s rollable display is well positioned to accommodate the user with smooth, paperlike viewing in all sorts of data-centric mobile applications, such as text, agendas, e-mail, electronic maps, and multiple-data information services.

According to Philips, “product design-in start” will happen by the second half of this year.

(Found via Librie mailng list.)

 
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