The Nokia 6 will be available in early July:
HMD Global — the Finnish company that owns the rights to manufacture Nokia-branded smartphones — announced earlier this year that it would be releasing new midrange Nokia Android phones in the United States. We now have more information on the first Nokia phone to hit Stateside: the Nokia 6, which will be available in early July for $229.
The Nokia 6 is the largest of the three Android phones HMD Global announced at Mobile World Congress, featuring a 5.5-inch, 1920 x 1080 display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage (expandable by microSD). On the software side of things, the 6 runs Android Nougat in its purest, unadulterated form — that means no bundled apps or overlaid skins. Plus, while the specs are decidedly average, the Nokia 6 does stand out with a metal unibody design built out of a single block of aluminum, which adds a premium touch to the otherwise midrange device.
Amazon is subsidizing the Nokia 6 by slapping ads on the lock screen.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:58AM (2 children)
Sharp used to make a colour LCD display that could be viewed without a back-light. The Danger Hiptop had it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:17AM (1 child)
It's called a transflective LCD, and my Garmin GPS has one. Not only is it easily readable in direct sunlight, it also only needs the backlight turned on when used in low light conditions.
Basically it replaces the backlight with a mirror. Well, not quite replaces, it has both.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 29 2017, @08:33PM
Thank you, that's it. Some pages about it:
article explaining why transflective displays are uncommon in mobile phones
https://www.manufacturing.net/article/2012/07/what-happened-transflective-displays [manufacturing.net]
photos of such a display on a Garmin GPS, compared with an AMOLED display
http://infracanis.com/yggdrasil/Articles/gear/garmin550/vsphone.html [infracanis.com]
Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_display [wikipedia.org]