The Nokia 3310 is based on a PCD8544 Controller. This is one cool graphical LCD. Not only it is easy to programme, the Nokia 3310 LCD also consumes low power.
http://www.geocities.com/dariuskrail20/nokia3310lcd.html
The most popular LCD interface is the Hitachi 44780 based LCD controller chip which provides a fairly easy to work with interface and low power consumption. The major drawback of the interface is the perceived complexity of working with the interface
http://www.rentron.com/Myke1.htm
The purpose of this project was to read a variable resistor on pin a4, and display the value (with a nice text) on the LCD display. The LCD display used in this project is manufactured by the Emerging Display Technologies Corporation, model number 162A0 (led types).
http://members.home.nl/b.vandam/lonely/pagina24.html