The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device used as a display
part of an information equipment and a method of manufacturing the same,
and has an object to provide the liquid crystal display device which can
obtain excellent display characteristics without raising the manufacture
cost and the method of manufacturing the same. The liquid crystal display
device includes a pair of substrates disposed to be opposite to each
other, a liquid crystal sealed between the pair of substrates and aligned
almost vertically to the substrate when a voltage is not applied, a pair
of quarter-wave plates respectively disposed at outer sides of the pair
of substrates, a pair of polarizing plates respectively disposed at outer
sides of the pair of quarter-wave plates, and a pixel area including a
reflection area provided with a reflecting plate having an almost flat
reflecting surface and for reflecting light incident from one of the
substrates, and a transmission area for causing light incident from the
other of the substrates to be transmitted toward the one of the pair of
substrates.