Abstract
Displays can be found in many handheld electronic products, especially in those that rely on visual communication, imaging applications, and web-based multimedia. These are features that ever more often also appear among the variety that today’s mobile phones offer. The mobile phone market can be thought of as the model market of display-centric handheld electronic devices. This chapter describes shortly the history of the display in a mobile phone, discusses the mobile display requirements, and summarizes the technology alternatives for mobile device displays. Finally, a short outline of the section is given.
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Abbreviations
- 3G:
-
Third generation
- 4G:
-
Fourth generation
- 4 K:
-
Display resolution with 3840 by 2160 pixels
- 5G:
-
Fifth generation
- AMLCD:
-
Active matrix liquid crystal display
- AMOLED:
-
Active matrix organic light-emitting display
- CSTN:
-
Color super-twisted nematic
- DTMF:
-
Dual-tone multifrequency
- EBR:
-
Electronic book reader
- EPID:
-
Electrophoretic display
- FFS:
-
Fringe-field switching
- GSM:
-
Global system for mobile communications
- ID:
-
Identification
- IPS:
-
In-plane switching
- LCD:
-
Liquid crystal display
- LTE:
-
Long-term evolution
- MVA:
-
Multiple domain vertical alignment
- OCB:
-
Optically compensated bend
- OLED:
-
Organic light-emitting display
- POTS:
-
Plain old telephone system
- SMS:
-
Short message service
- STN:
-
Super-twisted nematic
- TN:
-
Twisted nematic
- WAP:
-
Wireless application protocol
- WVGA:
-
Wide video graphics array
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Kimmel, J. (2016). Introduction to Mobile and Wearable Displays. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35947-7_120-2
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