Polytron Unveils World's First Fully Transparent Smartphone
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The only visible components are the board, chips, memory card and camera.

Taiwanese firm Polytron Technologies has revealed the world's first fully transparent smartphone prototype. As you can see in the pictures above and below, the prototype device is almost fully transparent. The only components visible on the device are the board, chips memory card and camera.
The rest of the device is a piece of glass that sports a small touchscreen (also transparent) located in the center of the device. According to Polytron, its technology may be available by the end of 2013.
South Korean technology giant Samsung, meanwhile, revealed Youm at CES 2013, a flexible and bendable OLED display manufactured for smartphones.
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"The only visible components are the board, chips, memory card and camera"
Shouldn't the title say "Polytron Unveils World's First 98% Transparent Smartphone
"The only visible components are the board, chips, memory card and camera"
Shouldn't the title say "Polytron Unveils World's First 98% Transparent Smartphone
Wonder how easy/hard it might be to read stuff on a see-through display. It would likely need to be a fair bit brighter than on a black substrate to overcome ambient flooding.
You can glue a mirror on your current smartphone and look through the camera in order to do this. Your phone will 'seem' transparent, because you can superimpose an image of what the camera sees onto your work surface.
Yea! Who needs any of this 'technology' BS they're throwing at us? We don't!
Row row, fight the powa!
The rest of the device is a piece of glass that sports a small touchscreen (also transparent) located in the center of the device. According to Polytron, its technology may be available by the end of 2013.
High precision GPS tracking!
Though, that could also be used against you...
Exactly what I was thinking. Seems pretty stupid and useless. Also if it is compleatly see through (other than the parts mentioned) than how is that going to work out doors. Phone LCD screens (and laptops) can already be hard to see in a really sunny room or outdoors. Also the rest of the device is glass so what happens if you drop it? Lastly how is this inovative all it is, is a see through body anyone could have come up with that.
You know that one way mirror does not work when both sides has similar light intensity right?