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iPhone 6 to boast advanced poly-silicon LCD display

Sharp is reportedly designing a next-gen, low-temperature poly-silicon LCD display for Apple’s iPhone 6.

According to Nikkan, the advanced p-Si LCD will allow Cupertino to create even thinner and lighter designs for the sixth iteration of its wildly popular smartphone.

As AppleInsider’s Neil Hughes notes, in a “p-Si LCD,” the thin film transistor, or TFT, of the screen is manufactured out of polycristalline silicon.

Display drivers can therefore be mounted directly onto the glass substrate - effectively shrinking the TFT section and facilitating a significantly thinner LCD display.

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Is IT Tracking Your Location via Smartphone?

Lost in all the iPhone location tracking buzz is one big reality: If you carry a company-issued smartphone, chances are IT knows where you go — though not for the reasons you might think.

Let’s say you scored a boondoggle to Los Angeles for a business conference, and instead sneaked off to nearby Disneyland with the family for a vacation on the corporate dime. Or maybe you simply told your boss you were meeting a client, but hit the golf links with your buddies.

If you carry a work-related iPhone, BlackBerry, Android or Windows Phone 7 smartphone, IT can track your movements. Never mind all the hand-wringing over the recent discussion that an iPhone secretly records its location in an obscure file stored locally and on the iTunes-synced PC - all unbeknownst to the user. Virtually every smartphone can deliver this information to IT, if IT is inclined to track it.

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