{"id":48364,"date":"2012-04-23T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=48364"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:49:26","slug":"microsoft-working-on-dual-side-smartphone-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/48364-microsoft-working-on-dual-side-smartphone-display.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft working on dual-side smartphone display?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> may be working on a new system for displaying information on\u00a0the front and back of mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a patent filed by Microsoft at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, relating to a dual-sided display system for smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>The patent features a second, low power screen on the back of a tablet that would contain a limited amount of information.<\/p>\n<p>The rear display could possibly be e-ink, and allow vendors to show the time or weather information on the rear of the device, freeing up space on the primary screen.<\/p>\n<p>The second display is expected to use its own processor in an attempt to reduce load on the device\u2019s primary display.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/04\/20\/microsoft-may-be-working-on-a-two-sided-smartphone-display-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has filed a patent to display information on the back of your mobile device<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":47506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[123,3846,1075],"class_list":["post-48364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-patent","tag-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48366,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48364\/revisions\/48366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}