Am 15.10.2015 um 19:44 schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> On 15/10/2015 03:25 PM, scott wrote:
>> In my old job we used to develop displays for Nokia (back when they were
>> #1)
> 
> o_O
> 
> They aren't still?!
> 
> Oh... Right... I keep forgetting the iPhone.

... and Samsung and LG and whatnot.

And the fact that they sold their mobile phone business to Microsoft
last year.

So no, they aren't any longer.

>> The way it worked is
>> that you "sold" your capability to one of the platform display teams
>> within Nokia, they then marketed it on your behalf to the rest of the
>> business that was actually developing the handsets.
> 
> Wow. That sounds crazy. They had an entire department who's only purpose
> was to evangelise stuff to the departments who actually make stuff?

Not really. The evangelizing was only a side effect of Nokia having had
multiple teams doing similar stuff (like the "platform display teams"
scott mentioned), so there was quite some competition going on within Nokia.

> Whatever happened to OLED anyway? And flexible displays? The world seems
> to have stopped caring...

Or maybe /you/ have stopped caring for a while?

OLED technology has been alive and roundhouse-kicking in the realm of
small displays since you last looked. Oculus uses OLED technology since
DK2 of their Rift, for instance.

As for flexible displays, I think people have found little real use for
them so far, except from gimmicks like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.

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