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Microvision To Demonstrate Breakthrough Ultra-Miniature “Thin Mint” Candy Sized Projection Display for Mobiles

Company Microvision to Unveil Tiny Display Module During Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Microvision (NASDAQ:MVIS), the global leader in light scanning technologies for display and imaging products, announced today that it will unveil and demonstrate during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas an ultra-thin, miniature full-color projection display that is small enough to be embedded in portable hand-held devices including mobile phones. The miniature projection display prototype, based on Microvision’s proprietary Integrated Photonics Module (IPM), has been developed in collaboration with one of the Company’s high volume manufacturing partners to position Microvision to deliver mobile users worldwide a large screen viewing experience inside a thin and sleek portable package. “Small, two inch displays that are common to mobile devices such as cell phones are barriers to growth of exciting mobility markets, because they limit the user viewing experience,” said Alexander Tokman, President and CEO of Microvision. “Our projection display solution is expected to eliminate this bottleneck, benefiting consumers, mobile operators, content providers, and consumer electronics OEMs. As our display is further optimized for high volume manufacturing, OEMs are expected to create a new generation of mobile devices with powerful projection display capabilities. Content providers should benefit by expanding their portfolio of visually rich content and application services. Mobile operators should benefit from an enhanced user experience by increased adoption of mobile data services such as mobile TV. Consumers should be able to obtain a radically new viewing experience by projecting photos, videos, movies, and TV from personal mobile devices onto virtually any surface for entertaining and sharing with friends and family -- whenever, wherever.” The image produced by Microvision’s display is extremely sharp and vivid whether being projected to view an image the size of a laptop screen or further away to view an image the size of a big screen plasma TV. Currently measuring a slim 8 mm this extremely small display package, about the size of a “thin mint” chocolate candy or the generation two iPod® shuffle, has been dramatically miniaturized to 1/10 the size of the company’s original prototype shown in June 2006 at the Society for Information Display. The Company and its high volume manufacturing partners will continue to develop this exciting technology into products that are expected to meet very aggressive market requirements for size, power, cost, and performance. Microvision plans to demonstrate the projection display prototype at private showings for prospective global OEM customers, members of the media and institutional investors during the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 7 – 11. The company is showcasing how its display could be embedded directly into a device like a mobile phone, as well as be used as a standalone accessory display with a variety of mobile devices. “This development represents a major milestone in the company’s turnaround and growth strategy set in place in 2006,” – concluded Tokman. “Our product development team has done an outstanding job and we believe that our customers and partners will be delighted by what we have to show during CES.”

Internet Tablet Nokia N800

The Nokia N800 is the follow-up to the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, building on the Maemo Linux platform developed by Nokia. The N800 uses the third incarnation of Maemo, called the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition which adds a few new features to the 2006 edition (which in itself was a huge improvement over the original platform).

It's roughly the same size as its predecessor - the Nokia N800 measures 75x144x13mm and weighs 206 grams. The 770 was 230 grams in its protective case, and 185 grams without it. The N800 shares the same excelled 800x480 pixel display of its predecessor.. this is a very high resolution display that puts the competition to shame. The N800 adds a webcam plus improvements to the tablet's WiFi and Bluetooth implementation. One key weakness of the old 770 was a lack of internal memory, and this has been increased in the N800. The N800 also accepts a wide variety of memory cards, including RS-MMS, miniSD, microSD and MMCmobile units, which gives a great deal of flexibility. One nice touch is that the N800 has an integrated stand, one of the first things that got lost on the older 770. It's important to note that the Nokia N800 isn't a phone, although it will support Skype in the future. Connectivity is either through the N800's WLAN adapter, or via a Bluetooth phone. The 770 wasn't limited to Nokia phones either, so you should be able to use just about any Bluetooth handset with the N800, including 3G, EV-DO and HSDPA phones.

The range of software available now and in the future for the Nokia N800 demostrates clearly that this is an ultra-compact computer. There's a version of the Opera web browser, an email client, RSS newsreader, multimedia player, games plus a range of utilities and other applications. It will also be possible to use the N800 with a GPS receiver as a satellite navigation system.

The Nokia N800 has different looks too - the 770 was a bit "retro futuristic", the N800 is more polished and contemporary. Either way, both Nokia internet tablets have plenty of "wow" factor.. especially when people see the quality of the display.

You could regard the Nokia N800 as "version 2.0" of the Nokia Internet Tablet. The original version of the 770 had plenty of rough edges (call it "version 1.0") which were largely fixed by the 2006 OS (call it "version 1.1"). Perhaps the N800 will be polished enough to make it a proper consumer product, whereas the old 770 was really for enthusiasts.

The Nokia N800 is available now in the US and soon in certain European markets at around €400 / US$400