Posts Tagged ‘e ink’

Verizon Wireless Launches Samsung Alias 2, $79.99 After 2-Year

May 11th, 2009 11:08 AM | by Christen da Costa

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Verizon Wireless officially kicked out their Samsung Alias 2 today.  It’s the first phone to sport an e-ink keypad that automatically changes the orientation of its keys from ‘keypad’ to ‘QWERTY’ depending on how the phone is opened.  It’s yours for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate and two year contract singing.

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Samsung Alias 2 Available On May 11, Based On E Ink?

May 1st, 2009 3:56 PM | by Albert

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The news on the street is that Samsung’s Alias 2 will launch on May 11 at the Verizon store. The cool thing about this phone? It’ll possibly be using E Ink for its keypad, making it the first US handheld using such technology. Since the keypad is dynamic in nature it can change from a full landscape QWERTY keyboard to a portrait numeric keypad, drawing power only when it makes this switch. Innovative? Green? Cool? You betcha.

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