Sony was back at the Consumer Electronics Show with a new OLED screen. But don’t plan on hanging this one on the wall: It measures 3-1/2 inches.
Sony has incorporated a
superbright, ultradetailed OLED (for organic light-emitting diode) touch screen in one of its top-of-the-line Cyber-shot cameras, coming a bit late to a category already occupied by Nikon and a couple of other manufacturers.
And OLED screens of any size don’t come cheap: The DSC-TX100V point-and- shoot will retail for $380 when it arrives in February or March.
OLED has been a once- and-future technology for a half-dozen years, and unless a flat-panel maker shows up with a surprise — Mitsubishi, perhaps? — the technology, at least at the consumer level, remains in limbo. Except for Sony’s 11- inch, $2,500 TV, OLED has been applied so far only to small- screen uses, such as mobile devices and a few cameras. —Stephen Williams, The New York Times
TomTom goes live. Virtually instantaneous traffic updates come to TomTom’s newest GPS device, with the introduction of its Go 2505 M LIVE. The $349 model, available by mid-2011, uses both satellite and GPRS radio signals to constantly update traffic conditions every two minutes, compared with every 15 minutes for its other models.
The Go 2505 also features other live services (which are all available free for the first year), including local search, updated local fuel prices and weather. Spoken English commands can direct users to the nearest fast-food restaurant or gas station. “The data is twice as accurate as Navteq,” said Tom Murray, a TomTom senior vice president of marketing. —Eric A. Taub, The New York Times
