The news of the creation of the world's first transparent phone quickly spread to online media in 2013. Manufacturers assured that in terms of functions and sizes, the development is not inferior to conventional models, and it will be even cheaper. In 2017, the Chinese company Vivo is developing a fully transparent smartphone. Let's dwell on this topic in more detail.
The world's first transparent smartphone
The first transparent phone was presented at an exhibition in Barcelona in 2013. The developer was a Taiwanese company. The manufacturer claimed that the new product will appear on the market by the end of 2013. It was assumed that the transparent phone presented to the public at a price would be very budgetary. The company then recognized that the presentation turned out to be weak, but promised to finalize it to such an extent that the phone became not just an accessory, but a full-fledged smartphone.
However, later it turned out that this whole presentation was only a profitable marketing move. The company, which introduced a transparent phone, was not engaged in the development of electronics at all, but made glass - design, holographic, architectural. Also, a Taiwanese company was producing glass for phones. With this unusual development, company representatives decided to attract attention and impress potential customers - eminent manufacturers of equipment.
Some production secrets
At a presentation in Barcelona, both the transparency and full functionality of the phone were explained using a special technology using nano-components, conductive molecules and liquid crystals. The main innovation here was not even glass, but the complete absence of wires and microcircuits. Samsung and LG developed a transparent phone at that time for several years, but so far not a single trial model has been presented.
By the way, the development of a Taiwanese company was not completely transparent. You could see the slots for SIM cards and memory cards, speaker, camera, battery. The thickness of the new model was only five millimeters. At the time of the presentation, the smartphone had absolutely no software (the developers promised to make a special OS that would suit such a model).
Experts then claimed that a transparent phone would occupy its niche in the market only if it was well developed. The image quality and modern OS were especially “distinguished”.
Information leak in Vivo
In 2017, sensational news about transparent mobile phones appeared again. Due to information leakage to the public, it became known that the Chinese manufacturer is developing the concept of a transparent smartphone. It was planned to introduce the phone before the end of 2017, and to be mass-produced in 2018. True, not all the phone was made transparent Vivo, but only the screen.
This time, the filling of the new gadget is more promising. The developers plan to equip the model with a modern processor, six gigabytes of RAM and one hundred twenty-eight internal memory.
How to make your phone transparent?
How much time is left before the presentation of a truly working smartphone of such a model is unknown. But how to make the phone transparent right now? Of course, to ensure that all the details become transparent, it definitely will not succeed, but you can change the screen. Just go to Google Play and select the appropriate application. For owners of equipment with the “bullseye” you need to search accordingly in the AppStore. Below is an overview of several good applications that will make the phone screen transparent.
Transparent Screen from SmartDroidTech
This application is the leader by request in Google Play, so the ratings and comments of users who have already used it are mostly positive. The application shows instead of standard wallpaper the image from the main camera of the smartphone. This gives the impression that the screen is really transparent.
Onex Softech App
This application works exactly on the same principle as the transparent screen from SmartDroidTech. Such unusual wallpaper for a smartphone will allow you to receive an image from the main camera using the phone in normal mode. The transparency of the image is preserved even when dialing or writing SMS messages.
The developers claim that the application is much more optimized than its counterparts. Here we are talking about battery consumption, since, as a rule, such wallpapers "eat" a lot of charge. For owners of smartphones with insufficient battery, this is a very important aspect.
Apps Studio Live Wallpaper
The application is absolutely the same as its counterparts. However, what else can you add to the transparent screen. These live wallpapers are distinguished by many positive comments from users who have already managed to install Aps Studio development on their smartphone.
Transparent phone from DagiDagi
This application is distinguished by the ability to broadcast the image not only from the main camera, but also from the front camera. In addition, you can adjust the zoom if necessary and get an approximate or distant image. Otherwise, Transparent Phone is exactly the same application for personalizing a smartphone as the rest.
Live Wallpaper - Transparent (Dev Team)
The developers of this application separately highlight the 3D effect of the wallpaper, which will make the smartphone screen completely transparent. The same company (or programmer) offers a “transparent” weather widget - the real weather conditions outside the window (rain, snow, sunny or cloudy weather, and so on) are displayed on the screen. Users give the application different ratings, but there are practically no negative comments.
On some smartphones, live wallpapers do not open, however, this is more of a problem with an outdated operating system, rather than with the application.