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Windows is Up, Android is Flat, iOS Falls

by Tom Allen

A variety of factors created ideal conditions for Windows tablets in Q2’15, with the OS’s market share ending the period at a record high of 9% worldwide. Strategy Analytics’ new report (http://tinyurl.com/ozyr37h) shows that …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 31| Windows

Leia Works on Larger Holographic Screen

by Tom Allen

Leia, the Californian start-up developing glasses-free 3D technology (Leia Shows Off new Holographic Display) is building a larger display. A prototype 2.2″ model was shown in April, and the company is now working on …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

IDC: Tablets Fall as Vendor Landscape Evolves

by Tom Allen

The global tablet market fell 7% YoY in Q2’15, says IDC, to 44.7 million units. With little hardware innovation and few new products, QoQ results were also down 3.9%. There is a “profound shift” …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Sky Enjoys High Growth

by Tom Allen

Sky gained 973,000 new subscribers across its five territories (UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy) in the 12 months to June 2015. The number represents a 45% YoY increase. In its results presentation, Sky …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Epson and Aaxa are PMA’s June Winners

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in June. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. Asus’ S1 led the ‘pico and personal’ …

Tags:Asus| Epson| Hitachi| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| NEC| PMA Research| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 31

BBC R&D Takes Home IBC Prize for HDR Paper

by Tom Allen

Andrew Cotton and Tim Borer, of BBC R&D, will be presented with the IBC 2015 Conference Prize next month, for their paper, ‘A display-independent high dynamic range television system’. The paper will be given …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| BBC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

7″ Windows Tablet Seen at TENAA

by Tom Allen

China’s certification agency, TENAA, has seen a new Windows tablet called the Ramos Q7. The product has a 7″ display (1280 x 720), a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 31| Windows

Panasonic’s Large Projectors Simulate Dicom

by Tom Allen

The PT-DZ21K2 Evo projector series, Panasonic’s update to the PT-DZ21K (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 16), is now being launched across Europe. Comprising four 3DLP models, we first saw the projector series at ISE …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Large Venue Projectors| Panasonic| Vol 22 - Issue 31

LG Looks to Past to Inspire Future

by Tom Allen

LG has become nostalgic, announcing an old-style clamshell handset running Android. The LG Gentle, ‘the world’s first smart flip-phone’, will be released in Korea soon. Android Central points out that LG wants to return …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Sony to Contest Apple and Samsung Launches

by Tom Allen

Rumours point to an upcoming announcement of Sony’s next flagship phone, the Xperia Z5, followed by a September launch. Leaksfly claims that the Z5 will have a 5.5″ display, 1920 x 1080 resolution and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 31

HTC’s Desire Range Keeps on Kicking

by Tom Allen

HTC’s Desire series is a long-running smartphone range, with the newest model – the Desire 626 – just launched in Europe. Billed as an affordable alternative to the HTC One M9, the phone uses …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Fast Charging Defines Motorola’s 2015 Phones

by Tom Allen

The Moto X and Moto G smartphones from Motorola have been greeted as solid premium and budget phones, respectively; the company is now hoping to repeat its success with the newly-announced 2015 versions. These …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 31| Worldwide