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The beautiful and vibrant AMOLED display on the HTC Legend

HTC has finally decided to give up on using the AMOLED display that everyone has been raving about and move back to LCD displays. The reason behind this move, as cited by HTC, is the crippling shortages of the AMOLED display which is manufactured by Samsung. But might more here than meets the eye. After all, Samsung has made a strong re-entry in to the mobile phone market with the emerging new-age smartphone wave and HTC is a top player in that market right now.

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Pixel Qi made waves earlier this year at CES when they finally revealed their hybrid displays. For those of you who came in late, Pixel Qi’s display aims to bridge the gap between a e-Ink screen and LCD by combining properties of both into one screen. The resultant screen can play full color video and can be read under direct bright light and has backlight that can be turned on and off. But last time we saw the Pixel Qi screen, it was missing touchscreen support and as Engadget had noticed — the viewing angle wasn’t very good. Pixel Qi is back again at Computex this year and they have improved on both fronts.

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There’s a report by TG Daily that suggests that Apple’s appetite for 10inch LCD screens has been sucking the Asian market dry of such units. According to the report, a designer for a firm said that they have been designing a tablet but it has been impossible for them to source 10inch LCD screens from the Asian manufacturers because Apple has pre-ordered them all. The designer who said all this wished to remain annonymous, which of course always adds to the mystery and takes away from the credibility of the rumor. But that is the way the bouncing ball bounces, especially on a top secret project like the Apple Tablet/iSlate. And there’s  more in this rumor.

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This is just something that is waiting to happen. I mean take a look around you — everything is about convergence these days. It’s about fitting in as much as possible into something as small as possible. True that that approach hasn’t worked too well for companies and manufacturers in the past but now technology has finally started catching up to the ideas that designers have had for a long time. This is why it can be said with a fair amount of certainty that the future of this world’s tech is going to be about that one gadget that does it all for you. Forget about carrying all those little things and one-trick wonders. You are about to step into the future and there will be just one piece of über gizmo that you are going to need.

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The Price of the LCD TVs has nosedived in the recent times and they are slowly becoming an essential part of home theater setups. To lure the users the major electronic appliance makers like Sony, Panasonic, Samsung and LG are coming up with the latest versions of LCD and HDTVs every few months. Samsung has some excellent offerings in this segment and these models offer a perfect blend of features and performance. The LN40B650 is a HDTV from its stable that has stellar looks with performance that lives up to the expectation of the seasoned users. In spite of being loaded with features the model is quite easy to use and even the beginners will not be intimidated by its features set.

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9.09.09 was more or less dominated by Apple’s Yerba Buena, SF event and hence, predictably, a lot of things that otherwise would’ve been reported properly got buried under the Macavalanche. You have been playing catch-up with all the new releases and you should be because not everything was revealed at event presentations. There are a lot of small things that you should know about (and things that I will cover in my 5-gen iPod Nano review ). So now that the crazy hype has finally worn off, here are six things that you should know about as an avid Otaku Gadgets reader.

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