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To: FWS who wrote (76853)	5/3/2008 4:23:29 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 197297

It also makes the display extremely low power—Cathey claimed that the mirasol uses only 1 milliwatt of power when operated in most ambient lighting conditions, compared to 220-320 milliwatts for displays currently being used in multimedia-enabled handsets, such as liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). Mirasol displays have a similar cost structure to LCDs, he added, and have similar equipment sets and bills of materials, though the mirasol displays are able to remove some components such as color filters and polarizers that are common to LCDs. For a completely dark environment, the phone comes equipped with a front light with a single LED that does not significantly increase the power consumption (about 30 milliwatts). Those are some amazing numbers and substantially better than the capabilities of either OLED's or LCD's. I have to wonder a bit though....those numbers are also much better than the numbers I had previously seen for iMoD displays. I had thought they would cut display power consumption by 80-85%. These numbers make it sound like power consumption would fall very close to zero. iMoD displays could command a significant premium to everything else on the market if the above numbers are true. Slacker

To: FWS who wrote (76853)	5/3/2008 5:11:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197297

Mirasol/Iridigm looks like a total winner. I would take black and white on my laptop too [one of them anyway - the little EeePC which is my out and about cyberspace device]. TV used to be black and white, as did movies, and they were fine. "Schindlers List" was filmed in black and white deliberately and it was great. The two huge benefits of Mirasol are battery life and the screen is visible outdoors. Either of those is enough. A double whammy is great. Many laptop and related advertisements show people sitting around swimming pools, on beaches, in parks, on farms and all sorts of outdoors places. Yes, it would be great to see cyberspace outdoors, but it doesn't work. Screens are not visible in bright light. I have to go and hide under a shady place and then the screen is hardly visible either. It would be great to be able to see the screen easily while sitting in a car and it would be great to spend hours in aircraft connected to cyberspace and not have the battery go flat. It's absurd that we are well into the 21st century and airlines are still struggling with the concept of people being connected to cyberspace while flying. They haven't even figured out how to offer regular cellphone service. Pathetic. Mirasol is going to be a huge success from what I have seen. If they can do colour at reasonable cost too, then the profits will be vast. Batteries lasting for ages, seeing the screen outside - everyone wants that. Mqurice