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Shanda Uses Hybrid Display for Week-Long Smartwatch Life

Shanda, a Chinese manufacturer, has unveiled two smartwatches with battery life of up to a week. Using a hybrid screen, which ...

AGC Begins 3D Curved Cover Glass Mass Production

Asahi Glas Corporation (AGC) said that it has started mass production of its 3D curved cover glass for car-mounted displays at ...

BeIN Uses Technicolor in MENA-First

BeIN Media Group has integrated Technicolor’s UltraHD technology into its broadcast platform for the MENA region. Technicolor’s technology enables UltraHD content ...

Stampede Appointed by Visionect

Visionect has appointed Stampede as the North American distribution partner for its ‘Joan’ digital door displays and meeting room schedulers. According ...

Optoma…And Cinema Speeds to Gaming Projector

Optoma unveiled its new HD141X DLP projector at the UK gaming festival, Insomnia, last month. Being announced at a gaming event, ...

Apple Emphasises Quality – And Pays For it

The cost of manufacturing the display for the Apple Watch (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36) is ‘several times’ higher than ...

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Asustek to Choose OLED for HMDs?

by Bob Raikes

Asustek is likely to choose Samsung Display to supply OLED displays for the headsets that it is developing for Microsoft’s Mixed Reality platform (previously Holographic) according to Digitimes, while the headsets are likely to …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09

MediaTek’s Revenues for January Fall to 12-Month Low

by Alan Spencer

Consolidated revenues for MediaTek fell last month to a 12-month low of $547.2 million. Seasonal factors were given as the reason, as well as the strong US dollar. According to market watchers, It is …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Pioneer Blu-Ray Drive can Write UltraHD Discs

by Bob Raikes

Pioneer has added to its line of Blu-ray devices for PCs with the BDR-211UBK which supports Blu-ray UltraHD reading and writing so that it can be used for creating UltraHD Blu-rays. It’s an internal …

Tags:Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 09

MTV Finland to Launch New Premium OTT Service

by Alan Spencer

Norigin Media is to build smart-TV applications on Samsung and LG Connected TVs for MTV Oy, the Finnish Media and TV company. MTV plans to launch a new premium TV streaming services using these …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Nordics| Samsung| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Was Steve Jobs Right or Not? And What it Means for VR

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we do not know what Apple is going to do, we all like to look back at Steve Jobs and imagine how he would have handled the situation? He was the man to …

Tags:Mobile Phones| Resolution| Smartphones| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Nokia Buzz is About 3310 – Go Figure!

by Bob Raikes

Nokia brand licensee, HMD, was on the Nokia booth to show off two lines of phones. The attraction of the brand was clear as on the first day, the booth was one of the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 08

SmartDisplayer Working on Credit Card Displays

by Bob Raikes

Tucked away in the back of one hall was a small company, Smart Displayer, based in Taiwan, which is working on bank and smart cards that use E Ink EPDs (or LCDs). The company …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Elliptic is Behind Xiaomi Mi Mix

by Bob Raikes

We met with Elliptic Labs which is a specialist in ultrasound and was in a good mood as it has been working with Xiaomi on the Mi Mix which uses Elliptic’s ultrasound system for …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Bosch Sensortec Laser Scanner Looks Good

by Bob Raikes

Bosch Sensortec was showing a new MEMs-based laser scanning projector at the show, the BML050. The basic engine supports 854 x 480 (although higher resolution can be achieved, up to around 720P) and the …

Tags:Automotive| Embedded Pico Projectors| Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Robert Bosch| Vol 24 - Issue 08

ABox42 & Zattoo Collaborate

by Bob Raikes

Although they are independent companies, ABox42, which makes STBs and Zattoo, which is a TV service provider, they are both based in Germany and collaborate a lot, so were sharing a booth at the …

Tags:Cloud TV| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Hisense Adds E Ink to Smartphone

by Bob Raikes

Somehow we missed it at CES, but Hisense showed the A2 phone at MWC again, so we caught up. The smartphone is unusual in having a 5.5″ FullHD AMOLED main display, with a touch-enabled …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Hisense| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 08