Panasonic’s Secret Weapon: Thin, Lightweight, Low-voltage Compact Plasma Display
Update 2008.04.04
Engadget is reporting the press release by AbleComm regarding Panasonic’s compact plasma display was completely false, unfortunately. Copied here is PRNewswire’s retraction.
PRNewswire — April 3, 2008
We are advised by AbleComm, Inc. that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, Panasonic To Put Plasma Video Displays in Cell Phones, issued earlier today over PR Newswire, as the entire news release is completely false.
Original Post Regarding the Fake Press Release
On April 3, 2008, Panasonic revealed an industry changing announcement about a 10-year secret development work on a thin, lightweight, low-voltage, compact plasma display. The plasma display can be integrated into mobile phones and other small devices that up until now have been almost exclusively served by LCD technology.
Sharp has been making a series of AQUOS displays for cell phones that receive digital TV signals for more than a year now. Google: Sharp W51SH. It also has Felica chips built in to allow you to store credit card and public transportation fare into it so you can make “PayPass” like purchases. Oh, and it has QR barcode sensors embedded into the camera lens allowing users to scan barcodes from outdoor ads or magazine ads which automatically store info on products and where to buy instead of having to type the web address to search for it… amongst other things. But this is all stuff that won’t make our lives easier, I suppose.
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April 7, 2008 at 11:29 pm