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Article: Screen saver: smaller handheld electronic devices offer high-quality images with less power. (News).
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- The Engineer
- Article date:
- February 7, 2003
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SMALLER AND LIGHTER handheld electronic devices could soon be available using display technology that uses significantly less power than existing screens.
The passive matrix LCD display technology, developed by ZBD Displays, allows high-quality images to be kept on the screen indefinitely without power, enabling device manufacturers to use much smaller batteries.
Visible even when off
Existing LCD screens require each image to be rewritten at least 30 times every second, whether the image is changed or not. But ZBD's technology only uses power when the image is changed, and the information stays visible even when the device itself is switched ...
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... ... Waterloo, Canada, have developed a handheld electronic device with text disambiguation ... The invention relates generally to handheld electronic devices and, more particularly, to a handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard ...
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