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Thales Partners with Spanish MoD

by Tom Allen

Thales has signed a deal with the Spanish Ministry of Defence to supply its Scorpion helmet-mounted displays to the EF-18 aircraft. The 80 units to be supplied will be installed in 2016 and 2017, …

Tags:Back Panel| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Thales| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Copaco Signs with Vidi-Touch

by Tom Allen

Copaco is now distributing Vidi-Touch touch displays for digital signage in the Netherlands.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Huawei Designs MediaPad for Video

by Tom Allen

Huawei’s newest tablet, the MediaPad T2 10.0 Pro, is focused on content consumption (and not, as the name suggests, for work). The 10.1″ LCD display (IPS panel) has an eye care mode – although …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Much-Leaked Samsung Tablet is Official

by Tom Allen

Back in March, a new tablet appeared on Samsung’s website before being swiftly removed. The tablet featured a 10.1″ display and was known as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 A. At the end of last …

Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 19

New Asus Phones Coming this Summer

by Tom Allen

Sources in Taiwan have said that Asus will show off third-generation models in its Zenfone family in June. Over 90% of the Zenfone 3 units will use Qualcomm processors; the others will use Mediatek.

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Asus’ April revenues fell sharply, down 42.4% MoM and 12.7% YoY, to NT$26.1 billion ($799.3 million). Year-to-date revenues were up 3.1% YoY, at NT$136.1 billion ($4.2 billion). The fall was blamed on delayed purchases, …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Acer Down in April

by Tom Allen

Acer has said that its consolidated revenues fell 42.1% MoM and 11.2% YoY in April. Revenues reached NT$14 billion ($428.8 million), with year-to-date revenues of NT$70.4 billion ($2.2 billion) (down 16.2%).

Tags:Acer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Foxconn Slightly Down in April

by Tom Allen

Foxconn’s April revenues were down 5.1% MoM and 8.5% YoY in April, to NT$322.4 billion ($9.9 billion). In the first four months of the year, revenues fell 6.3% to NT$1.3 trillion ($39.8 billion).

Tags:Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Ateme Drives Live UHD in Spain

by Tom Allen

Ateme’s Titan compression system was used by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE to broadcaster the ‘Parsifal’ opera from Teatro Real last month, in UltraHD. The broadcast used both satellite and terrestrial networks. The signal was …

EC Blocks Mobile Merger

by Tom Allen

The European Commission has blocked the proposed merger of O2 and Hutchinson, which operates the Three network, in the UK. The Commission was concerned that the move would have led to less choice and …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 18

Augmented Reality Faces Challenges, Says Zervos

by Tom Allen

Harry Zervos, principal analyst with IDTechEx, presented a talk about eyewear. Virtual reality is already popular, he said, and augmented reality is growing in two stages. For now, it is tied to smartphones; the …

FlexEnable: Which Wearable Will Win?

by Tom Allen

We last talked to Paul Cain of FlexEnable at MWC 2016 (FlexEnable Curves an LCD Around the Wrist), and he was presenting at the IDTechEx Show on the topic of ‘Ubiquitous Displays and Sensors’. …