Thanks to innovations made by suppliers, touch-screens capable of displaying high-definition video have come down in price dramatically.
The R2-D2 digital watches have a 300-dots-per-inch inch screen capable of showing brief clips from the movies.
The Agenda VR3 has a screen capable of showing 16 shades of gray and runs at 66 megahertz, about the same speed as Palm devices.
An affordable 10-inch screen capable of streaming video, with full interaction and a constant Web connection, is going to require a power outlet every two hours.
LG of South Korea, for example, introduced a smartphone with a screen capable of showing 3-D content that does not require any special eyewear.
Another Japanese manufacturer, Kyocera, is planning soon for the United States release of an Android-based smartphone that comes with two screens, capable of running separate apps at once.
And everywhere there are people talking and typing into astoundingly advanced mobile phones tiny devices that fold up like colourful make-up compacts, are incredibly light, and have small, vivid colour screens capable of displaying sophisticated graphics.
Such a device, with a screen that is said to be about three or four times as large as the iPhone's, would have an LCD screen capable of showing rich color and video, and people could use it to browse the Web.
TAIPEI — Fresh from poaching a top Google executive to lead its global expansion plans, the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Thursday announced another jaw-dropper: a 3-D television with a 47-inch screen, capable of hooking up to Internet, all for less than $500.
Japan's Sharp has announced the first smartphone screen capable of showing images in 4K resolution.
