Amid disputes whether the late Steve Jobs would have approved of the product, WSJ.com reported that LG Display and AU Optronics began mass production of what will be the 7.85-inch liquid crystal display.
Snipers got custom-made suits, such as the sinister, mummer-like British coats on display here, but mass-produced infantry camouflage had to wait until advances in textile printing.
Motorola eventually wanted to address much larger sets of customers, so it deprioritized features that would have been compelling to this first foothold market such as IT administrator tools while it added other risky technologies with hoped-for mass appeal such as a new type of display.
This past weekend saw a particularly stunning display following a phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection, where the sun spews a burst of particles into space that reach Earth one to three days later.