Google Goggle is an "augmented reality" application, which allows users to layer information about the world around them onto a smart phone display.
Between those mirrored sides, you'll find Sony's first 1080p phone display, measuring five inches and benefiting from the company's new Bravia Mobile Engine 2.
The most attractive services will probably be those that combine voice and text in a clever way: users could, for example, ask for an address and get driving directions on their cell phone display.
The peripheral utilizes three small drop down displays -- the rear is a full mirror with two half mirrors in front it, reflecting images from the phone display into what appears to be a three-dimension object -- and really, it a stunning little effect.
Netflix second screen app allows you to browse on phone, display on your TV instantly.
Customers then have to push a button for the phone to display the familiar grid that Apple claims infringes its design.
Instead, Apple said, the apparent drop-off in reception was actually the result of a software bug that caused the phone to display more signal-strength bars than it should have.
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Transmitting the REGZA Phone's display to a big-screen TV(9) makes for an even more enjoyable experience.
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In a side-by-side comparison with the Galaxy Nexus, it looks like the phone's display is incrementally larger, although we're unable to tell the precise size, nor whether we'll be treated to Super AMOLED Plus or some Pentile substitute.
We're finally getting a phone with a display that's impossibly sharper than the 326ppi on the latest iPhones (up to 4-inch, 1, 136 x 640), the 331ppi on the Nokia Lumia 920 (4.5-inch, 1, 280 x 768) or even the 342ppi on the Sony Xperia acro S and the Xiaomi Phone 2 (4.3-inch, 1, 280 x 720).
This could again be excused by the fact the Arc's intended for a casual audience (and the videos do indeed look quite spectacular on the phone's own display), but there's an HDTV-loving HDMI output among this phone's ports and you won't be best pleased with the results once you decide to look at them on an actual big screen television.
Not only is the GX30 a good-looking phone with a high resolution camera, it has practically the best high resolution display of any phone anywhere.
Additionally, Samsung surprised CES attendees by briefly showing off a prototype "Youm" phone with a flexible display.
The phone has a large display and unibody design, plus HD video recording capability with the built-in camera.
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It has expanded into different types of displays, including screen displays for a Motorola phone, an electronic display for a usb device made by Lexar and, finally, watch displays.
This make life easier, with that HD-out feature a no-brainer to access, Sony's created a TV launcher that springs to life when connected to HDMI and is navigable via mapped function buttons on your remote control or the phone's own display.
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Samsung also brought in Microsoft (MSFT) to display a Windows Phone prototype incorporating Youm.
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If you lose your phone, Mobile Me will display a Google Map that shows where your iPhone is, as long as it's turned on.
That's not to say the Focus isn't a sweet device, though: The vivid Super AMOLED display makes Windows Phone 7's colorful tile-based interface a visual treat.
Others might find value in the phone's ability to display Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) PDF attachments or its compatibility with Bluetooth headsets.
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There's no micro-drilled detail here, while a substantial screen composed of the border around the AMOLED display, the phone's edge plus the casing around it makes the phone wider than it perhaps needs to be.
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In spite of the display size, the phone feels light, with an 8.9-millimeter profile.
It can connect to your Android phone or iPhone via Bluetooth and display incoming text messages and other notifications.
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Like we said, that HD Super AMOLED display makes the Windows Phone 8 aesthetic really sing -- although we wonder whether Nokia's latest flagship may well beat in outdoor performance.
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The "A-Swing" has a game console appearance to it, but the main draw is its DMB support, allowing users to watch programming with the phone on a surface and the display flipped up.
Our own source wouldn't directly confirm that it's a five-inch display on this mysterious phone, but we were told that it'll be somewhere between 4.5 inches and 5.5 inches -- we'll take that as a yes, especially since the only 1080p mobile panels available right now are the five-inch, 440ppi ones from Sharp and JDI.
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If it can display information off my mobile phone, too, all the better.
Apple is reported to have halved its orders for the display panel featured on the phone for the January to March quarter, according to the Nikkei Japanese news service.
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