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Strategy Analytics: Global Smart Home Market to Hit $155 Billion by 2023

by Andrew Fenn

The global smart home market ended on an upbeat note in 2017 reaching $84 billion, up 16% from $72 billion in 2016 according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. According to the report, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart Home & Home Networks| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Absen Announced as Sponsor of StadiumBusiness Summit

by Andrew Fenn

Absen has announced it will sponsor and exhibit at the forthcoming StadiumBusiness Summit, taking place on June 12th and 13th at the Emirates Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, UK. The company will demonstrate its …

Tags:Absen| Large Display Monitor| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 25 - Issue 21

HMD Announces Updated Nokia Smartphone Range

by Andrew Fenn

Nokia’s smartphone business HMD has announced updates to three of its models — Nokia 2.1, 3.1 and 5.1 — all running Android Oreo, with support for Google’s Android One programme and prices starting from …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Shenzhen Control Centre Features “World’s Largest” LED Display

by Andrew Fenn

Committed to its mission of becoming a “smart city”, Shenzhen, China’s Longgang district is home to the city’s “smart city brain”, the Longgang Operation Centre, featuring what provider Absen claims to be the world’s …

Tags:Absen| China| Control Rooms| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Gartner: Worldwide Sales of Smartphones Returned to Growth in 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

Global sales of smartphones to end users returned to growth in the first quarter of 2018, with a 1.3% increase over the same period in 2017, according to Gartner. Compared to the first quarter …

Tags:Gartner| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Confusion Arises Over Existence of ARM-Based MacBook

by Andrew Fenn

Earlier this week, Digitimes’ sources are reported to have told the publication that Pegatron would soon be producing an ARM-based Apple MacBook, codenamed Star, with the series number N84. The report didn’t go into …

Tags:Apple| Arm| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IHS Markit: Out-of-Home Video Viewing on the Rise

by Andrew Fenn

More than half of internet users surveyed in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and Germany watched video content out of their homes at least once a month, according to consumer surveys conducted …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Amazon Alexa Skill Now Available on 2018 LG ThinQ AI TVs

by Andrew Fenn

LG has announced that its 2018 OLED TVs and Super UHD TVs with AI ThinQ technology are now compatible with Alexa-enabled devices through the LG SmartThinQ Skill for Amazon Alexa. Consumers can now control …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 21

New AI Solution Designed to Reduce Motion Sickness in VR

by Andrew Fenn

LG Display and a group of researchers from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, led by their professor Kang Seok-ju, have developed tools to measure and reduce motion-to-photon latency and motion blur in VR, …

Tags:AR/VR| Big Data/AI| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Motion Sickness| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Xiaomi Opens New Retail Store in Europe

by Andrew Fenn

Xiaomi has opened a bricks-and-mortar store in Paris, France. The store sells smartphones and accessories, including speakers, while an on-site showroom displays products that aren’t available yet, which isn’t just limited to smartphone products …

Tags:France| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 21| Xiaomi

Samsung Launches FreeSync Support for Select 2018 TVs

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung has begun rolling out AMD FreeSync support to some of its 2018 TVs, including its QLED range, allowing for smoother framerates, lower response times and less screen tearing when playing video games on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 25 - Issue 21| xBox

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Philips Professional Displays Announces European Roadshow Dates

by Andrew Fenn

Philips Professional Display Solutions has announced dates for its European roadshow, which kicks off in June. The show begins in Milan, Italy on June 1st, stopping in Munich, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, Germany before a …

Tags:Back Panel| Germany| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Philips| Vol 25 - Issue 21