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Dell Rugged Tablet Supports Gloves

by Bob Raikes

Dell has added a new Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet, which enhances the firm’s range of rugged products including a 12″ convertible notebook, and 14″ Rugged and “Rugged Extreme” notebooks. The tablet works from -20° …

Tags:Dell| Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Rumour: Names Revised for Win 10 Phones

by Bob Raikes

A Chinese website, IT Home, calims that the new Windows 10 handsets will be called the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL. Resolutions will be FullHD according to the site, with 5.2″ and 5.7″ …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 30| Windows

Pericom has USB Type-C for Alt Mode

by Bob Raikes

Pericom has developed a USB Type-C support chip (the PI3USB30532) with alternate mode switching to support DisplayPort V1.2. There is a 6×4 differential crossbar signal switch that allows 5Gbps for USB 3.1 and 5.4Gbps …

Tags:Chips| DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB| Vol 22 - Issue 30

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Panasonic Updates 20″ 4K Tablet

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic has upgraded its 20″ 4K tablet. The FZ-Y1 continues to have the 230 ppi IPS Alpha display but has had an HDMI 2.0 input added, allowing the use of the tablet as a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| tablets| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Kyocera BLU Life Reaches 100K Hours

by Bob Raikes

UK distributor, Ginsbury, has said that Kyocera is extending the backlight lifetime specification on 26 of its LCD modules to 100,000 hours. Sizes are from 4.3″ to 12.1″. Ginsbury said that the enabler for …

Tags:Kyocera| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Sharp 80″ TV Starts Shipping

by Bob Raikes

Sharp US has now started shipping the 80″ LC-80LE661U Smart TV that was announced at the beginning of June (Sharp Introduces New Line Of Commercial AQUOS™ LED Smart TVs). The product uses an edge-lit …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| sharp| Smart TV| Vol 22 - Issue 30

New Samsung Tab S2 is Very Thin

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Tab S2 which is available in two sizes (8″ and 9.7″ diagonal). As with the Tab S, the display has an OLED display, but with lower resolution at 2048 …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Eiki Now Shipping 8,000 Lumen DLP Projector

by Bob Raikes

Eiki has a new high brightness (8,000 ANSI lumen) single chip DLP projector, the EIP-UHS100 which is due to start shipping immediately. Resolution is 1920 x 1200 and the contrast ratio is quoted as …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 30

New Slingbox M2 announced for $200

by Bob Raikes

Slingbox has announced the M2 box, an upgrade on the M1, launched last year. Pricing has risen from $150 to $200 for the box, which allows re-transmission of TV content from an STB to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Synaptics Upgrades Integrated Touch/Display Driver

by Bob Raikes

Following its acquisition of Renesas SP Drivers (Synaptics Driving Touch Display Driver Integration), Synaptics is now sampling its ClearPad 4300, the second generation of its combined touch and display driver chip as well as …

Tags:Chips| Display Drivers| Mobile Display Monitor| Synaptics| Touch Controllers| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Fraunhofer To Use Nuke for Light Fields

by Bob Raikes

The Fraunhofer Digital Cinema Alliance said that The Foundry’s Nuke will be the first official implementation of the light field technology that the Alliance showed at last year’s IBC event. (Fraunhofer Explains its Virtual …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Fraunhofer| IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Cameras| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Apple & Samsung Discuss e-SIMs

by Bob Raikes

Apple and Samsung are reported by the Financial Times to be working on a new e-SIM technology that will mean that services can be changed on a mobile phone without the need for a …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 30