Dialog Semiconductor has announced that the companys first SmartXtend(TM) PMOLED driver IC, the DA8620, is being used by Lenovo in its recently launched transparent feature phone, the S800.

The S800 is the first commercial mobile phone to offer a transparent colour display utilising Dialogs SmartXtend driver technology. SmartXtend allows the main display of mobile devices - particularly those offering QVGA resolution - to utilise PMOLED, rather than LCD or AMOLED displays.

PMOLEDs provide superior advantages in terms of picture and colour quality, viewing angle and video performance over LCD displays used today. PMOLED displays are also offered with a transmittance effect greater than 50 percent, thus ideal for see-through or transparent displays applications. (Reported in oeld-display.info)