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To: quartersawyer who wrote (85232)	6/16/2009 11:55:26 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197280

Thanks for the link comparing Mirasol with LCD, OLED, etc. It appears that Mirasol, once all the manufacturing challenges are overcome, should be cheaper and better than competing displays. OLED does have a color balance problem due to aging, but other reports I've seen suggest that this is not a great problem for the kind of use one expects in a wireless phone over a period of two or three years. The fact that Mirasol can be manufactured essentially in the same factory that makes LCD is also a plus, but it wouldn't make much difference with the Taiwan company that is building a new plant to make Mirasol. As to image quality, I saw a Mirasol prototype with full color and about a 2.5-inch screen at the QCOM shareholders meeting in March. Indoors the Mirasol had as good quality as the display on an iPhone. Outdoors in bright sunlight it was far better than the iPhone, or for that matter, any other LCD I've seen. If the analysis of pros and cons of Mirasol is correct, then its attributes of low power consumption and relatively low cost manufacture still seem better than the competition. As to resolution and total number of colors, all I can say is that the prototype I saw in San Diego looked very good. Art