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Slidenjoy is a High-Quality Laptop Screen – Without a Laptop

by Tom Allen

Laptops – they’re designed to be portable, but the trade-off is a lack of screen real estate. Or is it? A new project on Kickstarter – which was funded less than three days after …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Custom Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Flexenable Scientist Takes Faraday Medal

by Tom Allen

Henning Sirringhaus, of FlexEnable, has won this year’s Faraday Medal from the UK’s Institute of Physics. Sirringhaus won the medal for ‘transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Smartphones Driving China’s Move to 4G Networks

by Tom Allen

Smartphones are on track to account for two-thirds of mobile connections in China by the end of this year, according to a new study published today by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the …

Tags:Apple| China| Huawei| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi

4G Popularity Rises Rapidly in China

by Tom Allen

A new study by GSMA Intelligence shows that smartphones will represent two-thirds of mobile connections in China by the end of the year. Smartphone adoption in the country was at 62% by the end …

Tags:3G & 4G| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Statista: Microsoft Spent $9.4 Billion on a Sinking Ship

by Tom Allen

Statista has released a chart that demonstrates the poor decision that Microsoft made on buying Nokia. As well as letting go of almost 7% of its global workforce (Microsoft to Cut 7,500 Jobs) – …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 29| Windows

‘The iPhone is the Only Product That Matters’

by Tom Allen

Seeking Alpha has written an article discussing the dominance of the iPhone – over Apple’s own products. In the introduction, the website notes, ‘From a financial and business perspective, the iPhone is the only …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Field Tests Demonstrate ATSC Benefits

by Tom Allen

Field tests of ATSC 3.0 signals are taking place in Cleveland, USA, over the summer. An experimental broadcast licence has been granted to Tribune Broadcasting’s WJW-TV by the FCC. WJW-TV will provide a transmitter, …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Note 5 Will Precede IFA

by Tom Allen

The Wall Street Journal claims that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Note 5 before its traditional IFA launch date. Instead, the phablet will be launched in mid-August. The move will apparently be taken to …

Tags:IFA 2015| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Intel Climbs in Mobile Space

by Tom Allen

Shipments of Android tablets with Intel processors will fall to 10.8 million units this year, from 14.23 million in 2014. The prediction comes from ET Mag. The site has also said that Android smartphones …

Tags:Android| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Korea Aims at 11k Mobile Display

by Tom Allen

The Korean government has initiated a project called EnDK, which aims to develop a mobile display with 11k resolution and 2,550 ppi. That would be, roughly, a 5.9″ screen with 11520 x 6480 resolution. …

Tags:IGZO| Mobile Display Monitor| Resolution| Samsung Display| sharp| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 29