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Archos Produces Cheapest PC Stick

by Tom Allen

Archos will be the first company to launch a PC-on-a-stick that is built for Windows 10. The French company’s innovatively-named PC Stick will arrive before the autumn, while Windows 10 will be launched at …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| Vol 22 - Issue 27| Windows

OLED iPhone? Not For Three Years

by Tom Allen

A report from Business Korea claims that Apple will launch a curved-screen iPhone in 2018. The phone would feature an OLED display, according to the rumour. (frankly – I would treat with extreme caution …

Tags:AMOLED| Apple| Flexible Displays| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Apple Watch Has ‘Excellent’ Display

by Tom Allen

Ray Soneira, president of DisplayMate, has put the Apple Watch through a series of tests in the company’s latest Display Technology Shoot-Out. His conclusion is that it is an excellent, artefact-free smartwatch display. The …

Tags:AMOLED| Apple Watch (iWatch)| DisplayMate| Mobile Display Monitor| Shoot Outs| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Elko Expands With Getac

by Tom Allen

Getac has taken on Elko Group to distribute its rugged laptops, tablets and other mobile devices in the Baltics, CEE and CIS regions.

Tags:Distribution| Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Rugged Displays| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Infortisa Brings CTouch to Spain

by Tom Allen

Infortisa is now distributing CTouch’s interactive displays and whiteboards in Spain.

Tags:CTouch| Distribution| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Spain| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Digital Projection Appoints Telion

by Tom Allen

Digital Projection has chosen Telion to distribute its products in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Tags:Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Switzerland| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Samsung Adds HDR to 2014 TVs

by Tom Allen

The 2015 edition of Samsung’s Evolution Kit brings HDR capabilities to the company’s 2014 TVs. Samsung’s first Evolution Kit was launched in 2012. The device connects to the rear of a Samsung TV, upgrading …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Premium and Possible-Budget Phones Leak From Motorola

by Tom Allen

The 2014 Moto G had a reputation as a good budget handsetDetails about two Motorola smartphones were leaked last week. The first was a spec sheet for a phone known as the XT1585 ‘Kinzie’, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Huawei Chooses Cypress

by Tom Allen

Huawei is using Cypress Semiconductor’s TrueTouch capacitve touchscreen controller in its Mediapad X2 tablet PC. The TruTouch TMA568 controller enables gloved finger tracking and water tolerance.

Tags:Back Panel| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 27

IHS Records First STB Contraction Since 2002

by Tom Allen

The pay-TV set-top box (STB) market shrank for the first time in over a decade last year, says IHS. From $15.9 billion in 2013, the market fell to $15.3 billion. It is the first …

Tags:IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Pay TV| STBs| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Netflix to Grow 28%

by Tom Allen

Almost 10 million new international subscribers will join Netflix this year, bringing the company’s total overseas base to 26.36 million by the end of 2015. The prediction comes from Digital TV Research. Almost 70 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 22 - Issue 27| Worldwide

LG OLED 4K Crowned ‘King Of TV’ At CE Week 2015

by Tom Allen

LG Electronics’ 4K OLED TV won 11th Annual Value Electronics TV Shootoutâ„¢ in a competition among four contending flagship 4K Ultra HD TV models from LG and other leading brands during CE Week in …

Tags:Curved Displays| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Shoot Outs| UltraHD & 4K