Polymer Vision a Dutch company has squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than other mobile phones — by making a screen that fold up when not in use. The 13-cm display of Polymer Vision’s “Readius” mobile phone is the world’s first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or e mail and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket. Like Amazon’s Kindle, the Readius has a so-called electronic paper screen, which displays black-and-white text and images that look nearly like they have been

printed on paper. The mobile phone Readius connects to the World Wide Web using the third-generation mobile phone networks with high notes speeds.

The mobile phone Readius from Polymer Vision is in production and will go head-to-head with Apple’s iPhone and Amazon’s ebook reader Kindle when it hits stores mid-2008. You get the large display of e-reading, the super battery life of e-reading, and the high-end connectivity … and the style factor and weight of a mobile phone,” said Karl McGoldrick, chief executive of the venture capital-funded firm, in which Philips still has a 25 percent stake.

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