Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Sharp begins to produce Full HD screen for smartphones

\The Japanese Sharp announced on Monday  the start of mass production of a 5-inch screen with full HD resolution designed specifically for smartphones. According to the company, the production model will be launched "this month."

Once in production, the model will be available to manufacturers to come onboard in future releases. So far, only the Oppo unknown Chinese company confirmed the launch of a smartphone with 5-inch screen 1080p, but rumors suggest that HTC is also planning a launch with the new - which could reach the market given the name of HTC One or X5 , look, Google Nexus 5.

The new model from Sharp has a density of 443 pixels per inch, winning by a wide margin the inevitable comparison with Apple Retina Display. In its newest incarnation, the screen of omnipresent and omniscient iPhone 5 has a resolution of 1136 × 640 pixels and density measly 326 pixels per inch, a difference of 35%.

To compress so many pixels in such a small area, Sharp uses a technology called Continuous Grain Silicon (continuous grain silicon, a literal translation) that allows images to be generated in ever smaller areas. The technology is on display at the fair Ceatec what is happening in Japan

In May, the Korean LG also showed its own 5-inch screen Full HD aimed at smart phones, but the model was only a prototype and not yet in production. Already the first phones with a "super screen" Sharp should hit stores in the coming months.