iPhone’s Retina Display Wins Display of the Year and iPad Wins Display Application of the Year Awards at SID 2011

Submitted by lalit on May 17, 2011 - 9:47pm.

The Society for Information Displays (SID) today announced its selections for the 2011 Display of the Year Awards (DYAs). The prestigious annual awards honor the products judged by the international DYA committee to exhibit the greatest degree of technical innovation, commercial significance and likely social impact, among other factors.

The six products chosen -- two each for Display, Display Component and Display Application of the Year were given 2011 Display of the Year Awards. Out of the three award categories two were won by Apple including Display of the Year Gold Award for iPhone 4 Retina Display and Display Application of the Year Gold Award for iPad Display. SID posted a brief description of the winning products as follow:

  • Display of the Year Gold Award: Apple iPhone 4 Retina Display – This year, Apple extended its track record of revolutionizing personal communications technology with the introduction of the industry-leading iPhone 4 Retina display.  Packing four times the number of pixels into the same 3.5-in. dia. screen found on earlier iPhone models, the 640x960-pixel Retina display set a new benchmark for mobile display resolution, low power consumption and image quality. Utilizing Mobile IPS (in-plane switching) technology, the iPhone 4 Retina display achieves a viewing angle superior to conventional mobile LCDs, providing an enhanced viewing experience for the end user in virtually any application. The display features a host of technical advancements: customized LTPS TFT backplane with organic passivation and optimized pixel design; user-customizable, auto-adjustable brightness using ambient light sensing; advanced IPS compensation polarizer technology for high contrast (800:1) and color consistency regardless of viewing direction; 8-bit color depth; an ultra-thin, tiny-footprint driver IC; and patent-pending mechanical integration.
  • Display Application of the Year Gold Award: Apple iPad – The iPad marks a new era of tablet computing, transforming the way people communicate, consume and create content, play games and learn. The iPad LCD's Mobile IPS technology combines with its innovative Multi-Touch user interface and unique system design to enable the iPad's versatility in numerous applications. The iPad display provides a superior viewing experience with a minimized gamma shift over viewing angles, enabling designers to create innovative apps that further enhance the viewing experience. The iPad's fully customized design leverages the existing amorphous silicon thin-film transistor (a-Si TFT) infrastructure in an innovative, ultra-thin product with the unique LCD and an innovative power-management system that achieves maximum power efficiency -- 10 hours of battery life for WiFi web surfing and 9 hours for 3G web surfing.

Other winners of the Display of the Year Awards are E Ink Triton Color ePaper for Display Component of the Year Gold Award, ITRI Flexible Substrate for Display Component of the Year Silver Award, Samsung Mobile On-Cell Touch AMOLED for Display of the Year Silver Award and Samsung Galaxy S Mobile for Display Application of the Year Silver Award.