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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (1608)	9/8/2000 4:38:04 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6784

WLD, I looked very carefully at the cell phone screens and I can't convince myself that they are LCD screens. LCD screens are those liquid-dy screens that you can depress with your fingers and it flows like liquid. LCD screens can actually function the same way as a computer CRT terminal in the sense they are made up of some tiny dots and you can program the lcd screen to display any graphics you want - text is just one type of graphics. But a phone screen text displaying lines are fixed and you can't display graphics on a normal phone screen. That's one reason why it's extremly difficult for cell-phone to imitate Palm since it's just not capable of displaying anything other than the few line of texts. Whereas Palm can imitate a cell phone screen without any effort. That's why Symbian wants to use the Palm interface (the LCD programmable display) to lay on top of the text-based Epoc OS and issues commands to run the cell-phone. I am no expert in these areas so any discussion is welcome. Maybe I could be totally wrong. Mang