Thread: New display tech?
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Old 09-15-2020, 05:29 PM   #11
fjtorres
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Which is 12+ year old technology. The Nokia E65 was full colour backlit and almost monochrome, perfectly readable in bright sunlight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E65 February 2007!
Yes.

It dates back to the PDA era and the last century:

https://xcsoar.fandom.com/wiki/Hardware/PDA_Displays

Those used to be low res displays so the tech is ripe for updating (say with microLED frontlights) but there's nothing magical there.
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