Well sir, I work with pen-based laptops like the Panasonic, Fujitsu and
Norand lines, and can tell you that we usually use the term reflective LCD
for LCD's that absorb ambient light and use that to enhance the brightness
of the screen.
Transflective is fairly new for LCD's (at least the color models), but it is
usually referred to whenever talking about LCD's that will absorb SUNLIGHT
and still be viewable. Normal LCD's will reflect sunlight, therefore
blinding the user and disallowing all viewing ability. Transflective CTFT
LCD's are usually less brilliant than a regular TFT screen. They also don't
display as many colors.
As for the radio stuff, i've heard of CDPD and GPS, but i've always related
them only to my cell phone! : )
> From: "Evgueni A. Natalenko" <adam@spb.cityline.ru>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:50:37 +0300
> To: "NewtonTalk" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Subject: NTLK Some technoquestions
>
> dear friends-newtonians,
> i have few questions:
> 1. sometime ago one guy wrote to list that microsoft hired xerox parc's
> veterans (what _names_i_don't know? maybe like larry tesler) to develope
> new generation of pen-based tablet ("pen computer"). i have lost my copy of
> this thread. maybe someone post it to me or have another detailed
> information about that event/news?
> 2. who can shortly describe to me some techno "jargon" (i mean this damned
> hard to understand words ;-))?:
> about lcd:
> reflective
> transflective
> about radio and communications:
> cdpd
> gprs
> dsss radio
> ds/fh ss radio
>
> thatk's. and you're the best,
> from russia with love,
> evgueni a. natalenko.
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