Summary
Color display quality are becoming a competitive factor in consumer devices. Makers of digital cameras, MP3 players, and mobile phones are increasing the size and capabilities of their products' displays. Apple's new iPod Photo has a 2-inch LCD display that can show 65,000 colors. Other companies have shown 4-inch LCD displays that are well-suited to displaying movies or TV programs.
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- The Consumer Electronics Show 2005 (CES 2005) in Las Vegas featured a cornucopia of new handheld products that sported bigger, brighter and more colorful displays.
- Because of this, newer display technologies are emerging as major competitive differentiators in products such as MP3 players, digital still cameras and mobile phones, iSuppli believes.
- In advance of CES, Apple Computer continued to set the pace in the MP3/portable media player market with a new color-display version of its iPod portable music device.
- The company introduced its first iPod music player in 2001 and launched several succeeding generations of the product through 2004, all of which used high-quality 2-inch monochrome displays.
- This year, Apple showed the new-generation iPod photo, which features a 2-inch 65,000-color TFT-LCD display that can show photographs.
- Other companies arrived at CES hoping to outdo Apple by offering MP3 players that are capable of displaying video.
- Creative Labs and Archos introduced products at CES that incorporated 4-inch TFT-LCD displays capable of presenting movies or TV programs.
- The Zen Micro Photo employs a 1.5-inch, 262,000-color OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display.
- About 10 million MP3 players with hard disk drives were shipped in 2004, up more than 200% from 2003, according to iSuppli.
- Meanwhile, mobile phones are beginning to acquire much of the same functionality as MP3 players and also are adopting more high-end display technologies.
- As portable devices become more capable and as more functionality is built into them, customers are demanding bigger, brighter and more colorful displays.
- For system manufacturers, using attractive displays is an almost surefire way to sell their products and gain market share in these highly competitive, fast-moving markets.
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