Motorola shows 9mm-thick mobile phone

Motorola's big handset blitz earlier this week wasn't the whole story. The company went on to unveil one of the slimmest phones yet made: a 9mm-thick candybar with a fancy electrophoretic display ready for clear viewing in bright sunlight, the company claimed.

Motorola did highlight the FONE's icon-based interface, which also uses voice prompts as a guide and sports big text sizes. The handset will also flash up call costs and account totals for pre-pay users, again suggesting a handset aimed at the lower end of the market.

The details of the FONE's electrophorectic display remain in the dark too, but we expect it's not unlike E Ink's electronic paper system, in which pixels are switched on or off by applying an electric field to different-coloured particles. It's the same kind of display Sony's electronic book, the Reader, uses, and, as Motorola suggested, it helps deliver long battery life.
11/14/2006 12:54:42 PM
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