See-through phone 'to launch this year'
An almost totally transparent smartphone has been developed by Polytron Technologies and could launch this year.
The Taiwanese firm showed a prototype multitouch mobile phone to theMobile Geeks website at their base in Toayuan.
Although the device is currently a hardware prototype, and therefore does not yet run any software, Polytron claims its “Switchable Glass” technology could be launched to consumers by the end of 2013. It features a touchscreen on both sides of the device, raising new possibilities for mobile design.
The conductive OLED display uses liquid crystal molecules to show images. Without power, the molecules appear cloudy, but electric current allows them to align to form images. Electric current is carried through transparent wires.
Previous ‘transparent’ phones, such as Sony’s Xperia Pureness, which launched in 2009, have not managed to appear as see-through as the new Polytron device. Although its sim card, batteries and SD card are not yet transparent, almost the entirety of the rest of the phone is. Polytron says it will use darker glass to obscure those components it cannot fix when it goes into production.
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