I had plans to attend CTIA Wireless 2008 but could not. For those of you who are not aware, CTIA Wireless is the wireless conference in the US where about 1000 companies and about 40,000 folks congregate. This year it was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 1 to 3. A colleague graciously offered to look for anything of interest during the show so I asked him to look for OLED displays on mobile phones. There have been much interest in OLED displays, but I have my doubts as it is very expensive and very difficult to manufacture OLED displays and the benefits are not as big as everyone thinks. Many have touted that OLED displays consume less power than equivalently-sized LCDs with the same content, but I have not seen any technical papers revealing this to be true. On the contrary, I believe OLED displays consume much more power than LCDs.

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