Windows Phone Thoughts: Philips Rollable Display Parading at IFA 2005

"It seemed to me that Philips has something very interesting to show at their Philips booth. Located in hall 22, Philips offers the visitor a lot of new products from hard disk recorders to HDTV devices, Blue-Ray solutions to prototypes. Only one working device is currently present at the IFA show. Of course I needed to see this one with my own eyes so the search began. Somewhere in a corner one of Philips's demonstrating girls carried it hanging around her neck: Philips' rollable display device. Simply referred to as: "Amazing!" Ultra light and stylishly designed you can carry the rollable device with you wherever you wanna go. The device is very small and it unfolds a large display that is actually larger than the device area."



Earlier in the week, Philips demonstrated its rollable display prototype at the IFA 2005 show. Content can only be displayed in grayscale and QVGA, but it's a concept in the making and we may just end up seeing rollable colour displays in the not-too-distant future. Rollable displays for future Pocket PCs? Yeah, I could do with that. It could help make a pocket-sized device even more pocket-sized, and you can impress your friends too.