COMMERCIAL REALISATIONS

FIRST-GENERATION ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) Tokyo, Japan; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 2004 –and E Ink Corporation announced the world’s first consumer application of an electronic paper display module in Sony’s new e-Book reader, LIBRI’e. This first ever Philips’ display utilizes E Ink’s revolutionary electronic ink technology which offers a truly paper-like reading experience with contrast that is the same as newsprint.

Sony’s e-Book reader LIBRI’e, the first device to utilize Philips’ display solution for enhanced reading, is designed to a paperback book. LIBRI’e allows users to download published content, such as books or comic strips from the Internet, and enjoy it anywhere at any time. LIBRI’e can store up to 500 downloaded books.