Remember those days where we chase random dots with crude block of pixels around tiny monochrome screen on infamous Nokia 5110? It's a vintage (or you may say, ancient) device, but it pave way to popularize the early concept of 'smart phones'. It's a wonder of it's time, where phone is no longer simply communication device... you can play with it! Hence the 'snake' become the most played game on that time. Even the legendary Final Fantasy VII released around that time will turn blue when comparing number of players with this simple game. Then the smart-phone (blending of phone and PDA) era begin, and monochrome displays on cellular phone face their extinction...
But not with this immortal N5110 display! Now electronics hobbyist all around the world start integrating refurbished display from this phone on their electronic projects. Big names in electronic industries like
AdaFruit,
SparkFun, and
azTech start
selling those LCDs and once again N5110 name is spoken loudly... uhmm... at least part of it.
This graphics display, whose resolution of 84 x 48px, get favored around electronic designed as it's simple and easy to install, powerful enough to accomodate most of simple interface design, and most importantly... it's cheap and abundantly available.
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