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Lenovo Unveils World’s First Tango-Enabled Smartphone

Lenovo today launched the much anticipated PHAB2 Pro – the world’s first Tango-enabled smartphone to enable augmented reality experiences – plus ...

Intel Highlights Android Reference and Core-M Hybrids

At its recent Developer Forum, Intel showed off an Android reference design programme, intended to simplify the development of Intel-based Android ...

CMOS Sensor Enables 100fps Gesture Tracking

A Japanese firm, Exvision, has developed a technology for high-speed gesture control using a conventional CMOS sensor. The Exvision Gesture System ...

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 11

A company called Arovia showed a fold-out screen at South by Southwest last week. No, not a foldable OLED: a rear-projection ...

Millennials Holding out, Boomers not Compelled to buy next iPhone

Loyal Apple consumers across generations aren’t excited about a 4-inch iPhone, which is expected to go on sale following Apple Inc.’s ...

Opportunities for Added Value in Large Displays

Our own Managing Editor, Bob Raikes, opened up the afternoon session by looking at the development of the large display markets ...

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Phones 4 U Falls into Administration

by Super User

The UK’s Phones 4 U mobile phone retailer has fallen into administration, blaming the recent withdrawal from its business of Vodafone and EE. However, within days of the announcement, both Vodafone and EE were …

Tags:Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Retailers| Vodafone| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Sony Looked at Flexible Displays for Its Smartphone Line

by Super User

When we talk about smartphone leadership, Sony is not the first name that comes to mind. In a recent interview of Thomas Waldner, Senior Design Manager at Sony Mobile Communications by Trusted Reviews, the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Dynamic Focus on 19″ LCD Monitors

by Super User

This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 19″ standard aspect ratio (5:4) category. There are 16 brands featured in the advertising with Philips, Acer and Iiyama the top three advertised brands. In …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| dynamic focus| Large Display Monitor| Pricing| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

PC-to-TV Connections Higher in Europe

by Super User

A study by Parks Associates has found that Smart TV ownership in broadband households is around 40% in Germany and Spain, but only 33% in the UK. It has also found that PC-to-TV connections …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Barco’s Present-C is Unobtrusive

by Super User

Barco’s Present-C 1DLP projectors feature wide aspect ratios (up to 21:9) to support the corporate shift towards local and remote collaboration. With a compact form factor – they are said to be smaller and …

Tags:Barco| Business Projectors| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Matchstick Sparks Kickstarter Rush

by Super User

Mozilla’s Chromecast rival, Matchstick (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26), has been revealed, with a competitive price of $25. The device, which was quickly funded on Kickstarter (http://tinyurl.com/karoadz), uses open-source software. Developers are being …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

DisplaySearch: iPhone Panel Demand to Exceed 100 Million

by Super User

According to a blog post by NPD DisplaySearch’s David Hsieh (http://tinyurl.com/lgjjegh), panel makers need to ramp up production of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus panels quickly. DisplaySearch estimates that Apple has ordered more than …

Tags:Apple| Display Supply & Demand| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD DisplaySearch| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Nanomarkets: LCoS May Overtake LCD as Common Mobile Display

by Super User

Nanomarkets has published a new report on the components and subsystems markets for smartglasses (http://tinyurl.com/p9gy3kg). The firm estimates that there is an opportunity in the market worth $3.2 billion, for makers of sensors, lightguides, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21| Wearable Market

Skyworth Takes Hillcrest

by Super User

Yet another TV platform has signed up to use Hillcrest’s gesture control technology. China’s Skyworth has joined TCL, Lenovo, LG, Hisense and Roku in using the Freespace Motion Engine technology.

Tags:Back Panel| Gesture Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Orange Signs Netflix Agreement

by Super User

Orange will offer Netflix on its set-top boxes in France from November. Orange has more than 10 million subscribers, so the deal would be a significant boost for the newly-launched service.

Tags:France| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 0.5% in Q3

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Worldwide PC shipments reached 79.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014, a 0.5% decline from Q3 of last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. For the first time, the sum of …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21| Worldwide

AUO Sees Slow Sales in September

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AU Optronics (AUO) saw its monthly sales fall 3.5% year on year in September to NT$35.6 billion ($1.1 billion) taking sales in the first nine months of the year to NT$302.7 billion ($9.9 billion), …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21