Reverse engineering the Nokia 2730 QVGA LCD Mar06

Reverse engineering the Nokia 2730 QVGA LCD

You may have noticed that I have a bit of a ‘thing’ for the little TFT displays that you can commonly get on ebay. There’s something satisfying about writing your own driver code and seeing one of these little panels come alive with your graphics. Why the 2730 LCD? It’s high resolution (320×240, 200ppi) which means that graphics will look good. It’s used in a lot of models: Nokia 5000, 2730, 5130, 5220, 7100. Good for availability. It’s cheap, as low as £3.99 on ebay. It supports 262K (18-bit) colour mode. It looks like I can find the connector for it. Don’t underestimate the difficulty of...