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Samsung Top in Smartphones, but Down From 2014

by Bob Raikes

IDC released its preliminary data on the smartphone market in Q2 by highlighting that it’s the growth in emerging markets that is driving the market. In total, 337.2 million smartphones were shipped, up 11.6% …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 30

IHS Forecasts OLED Materials

by Bob Raikes

IHS has a new report available on OLED materials. At the moment, the market is dominated by Samsung Display’s purchases, but will be overtaken by LG Display from 2016. Chinese makers are also expected …

Tags:AMOLED| IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| Materials Market| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Arch Develops LED Map for Train Museum

by Bob Raikes

Arch of Belgium has developed a custom 70m² discrete custom LED display for the new Brussels Train Museum (Schaerbeek) which is due to open in September. The display is 6cm thick and shows a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Museums & Exhibitions| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Reflecta Wall Mount Works on Curved TVs

by Bob Raikes

Reflecta GmbH of Germany has developed a new Plexo Curved 65-6040T TV wall mount that can mount TVs from 32″ to 65″ and up to 45kg between 74 and 514mm from the wall. A …

Tags:Curved Displays| Display Mounts| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 30

25.5″ Display Now Airborne

by Bob Raikes

IEE of Van Nuys, California, said that its 25.5″ 1920 x 1200 rugged LCD monitor has been approved and qualified to MIL-STD 810G, and has started production. The monitor was developed with BAE Systems …

Tags:Avionics| Large Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Samsung Set Uses USB CAM in Indonesia

by Bob Raikes

Irdeto, Samsung and SMiT have jointly developed a new “Direct-2-TV (D2TV)” set for pay-TV in the Indonesian market without needing an STB as it uses SMiT’s USB CAM. The package is being offered by …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Security| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Panasonic Improves Video Wall Adjustment

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic has developed a new Auto Camera Adjustment kit (TY-VUK10) for its video wall manager software which is intended to cut installation time and improve colour consistency. Enrique Robledo, European Marketing Manager for Panasonic …

Tags:Display Calibration| Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Toshiba Phone Sensor Supports UltraHD at 30fps

by Bob Raikes

Toshiba has announced a 16 megapixel (4624 × 3472) CMOS image sensor, the T4KC3, for mobile devices that can support the full resolution at 30fps. It can also support UltraHD and 4K formats at …

Tags:Imagers| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| toshiba| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Eizo Monitor is Optimised for Security

by Bob Raikes

As part of its Duravision range, Eizo has announced the FDF2306W monitor which is optimised for security and surveillance applications. The base specification is 23″ diagonal with FullHD resolution and based on a TN …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Security| Vol 22 - Issue 30

LDM Vol 22 No 30 Product Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Dell has launched, under its Wyse brand, the 490-Z90Q10 and 5490-D90Q10 thin clients which use quad core AMD G-Series Processors. The clients do not have attached displays. There is a new Wyse vWorkspace 8.6 …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Thin Clients| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Rumours Abound on Microsoft Surface Pro 4

by Bob Raikes

There are lots of reports of work by Microsoft to bring the Surface Pro 4 to the market. The rumours suggest it will have a 12″ display, a 256GB SSD from Samsung, an Intel …

Tags:Intel| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 30

MDM Vol 22 No 30 Product Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Apple has introduced a new iPod Touch with a 4″ Retina (1136 x 640) display. It’s based on an A8 64 bit chip (said to be six times faster) and also includes a GPU …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 30