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Asus Reveals More Information on New Phones, Convertibles and Projector

by Bob Raikes

Asus was highlighting the ZenFone 2 which was previewed at CES. The display is a 5.5″ IPS unit with FullHD resolution (a 1280 x 720 lower cost option is available), 400 cd/m² of brightness …

Apple Plugs TV, Adds a New MacBook and erm…. Shows Some Watches

by Bob Raikes

We have held off from the flood of initial streams and comment that came with the Apple announcements on Monday. We’re covering the Apple watch in detail in one article and have a separate …

Samsung Unpacks Two New Phones

by Bob Raikes

Samsung held its “Unpacked 2015” event at the Barcelona Conference Centre on the evening before the show proper opened. It was a big event – with many partners and Samsung staff as well as …

VESA Bangs the Drum for USB Type-C

by Bob Raikes

VESA was at the show to talk about DisplayPort in particular. There is, of course, a lot of interest in the alternate mode for USB-C. We saw a number of USB-type C connectors and …

Tags:DisplayPort| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| VESA| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Tianma Shows OLEDs and A-si Tablet Panels

by Bob Raikes

Tianma’s OLEDs Looked good and should be here by the end of 2015Tianma was one of only two LCD makers that had meeting rooms on the show floor (the other was Samsung) and had …

The Eye Tribe Shows Eye Tracking on Phones and TVs

by Bob Raikes

The Eye Tribe showed fruit ninja being played using eye trackingDanish Eye Tracking software company, The Eye Tribe was on the Denmark booth and was showing how its eye-tracking technology could be used in …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Silicon Image Supports MHL Notebook Application

by Bob Raikes

Silicon Image had a booth with several topics as it also housed SiBeam and MHL LLC. Andromium’s dock converts a smartphone into a notebookThe first product that we looked at was a new notebook …

Raon Tech Shows LCOS for NTE Applications

by Bob Raikes

Raon Tech was a new name to us. The company is from Korea and has developed its own LCOS devices that are optimised for near to eye (NTE) applications. The 720P version is 0.5″ …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Qualcomm Identifies 802.11ad (WiGig) Use Cases

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm, of course, had a big booth and was showing how its latest processors could be used for depth sensing and two different approaches were being shown – one from Mantis using “structured light” …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11| WiGIG

Marvell Specified in Project Ara

by Bob Raikes

Marvell started by showing us the PXA1928 which is the application processor/SoC that is being used in Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone (The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation). The chip is based on …

Lenovo Introduces Pocket Projector

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo had lots to show us and we had a whistlestop tour of the booth. The Mgo 300 is an entry level 8″ Windows tablet running Windows 8.1 and using an Intel BayTrail processor. …

x Series Intel Atom Processors Aim at Phones & Tablets

by Bob Raikes

Intel was, unsurprisingly, highlighting the Spectre X360 on its booth. The company was also talking about its support of EMBMS and Multicast video which it can support via its 7260 modem platform. It was …