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Eurofins to Provide Test and QA for Conax

Eurofins Digital Testing has been selected by Conax to provide testing and service validation for Conax certified set-top boxes in Asia. ...

ECR Lively, but Misses Some Display Vendors

This year’s European Congress of Radiology took place, as usual in Vienna. We managed a flying visit in this busy event ...

Google Smart Lens Kicks Off DAC 2015

Click to enlargeGoogle’s glucose-monitoring contact lens was a prototype a year ago (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4), but was presented ...

Eizo Prepares for New Colour Space

Two of Eizo‘s UltraHD monitors – the CG318-4K and CG248-4K (Wide Colour and High Resolution on Eizo’s ColorEdgeEizo Reaches New Pixel ...

NEC Promotes Ikeno to European Lead

Masahiro Ikeno has been appointed president and CEO of NEC Europe. He will lead the company’s development of solutions and services ...

Vestel Highlights STBs

Vestel was focusing on STBs when we went by, as we had covered the TV developments at IFA. We also had ...

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Xiaomi Takes to Global Stage

by Tom Allen

Xiaomi has a reputation as ‘The Apple of the East’, but its prices are far below the Cupertino-based company. Although it had no stand at the show, the firm used MWC to launch its …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 08| Xiaomi

MediaTek Shows Scaling and Colour

by Milos Pavlovic

MediaTek was highlighting features of its X20 processor as well as announcing a new P20 chip at Mobile World. The first demonstration that we looked at was showing the X20 in an image scaling …

Tags:Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| MWC 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Asahi Etches Glass for Fingerprints

by Tom Allen

Asahi Glass was showing a new cover glass product, on the CrucialTec stand, with a recess to house a fingerprint sensor. It is called ‘Glass on Top with Shine’. Today’s fingerprint sensors can read …

Tags:Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Fingerprint Recognition| Glass| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Verge-Accommodation Conflict ‘Solved’

by Tom Allen

Chinese researchers have developed a new display with ‘comfortable’ 3D effects, which is claimed to eliminate the sensation of nausea that some people suffer from when using 3D displays. The technology can be used …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Haier Builds on MWC ’15

by Tom Allen

Haier was presenting four new smartphones, two in the existing Voyage series, which debuted at last year’s show, and two in the new Leisure series. The Voyage V6 is Haier’s flagship: a 7.6mm-thick model …

Tags:Europe| Haier| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Netflix Second Screen Coming this Year

by Isaac Oburu

Pocket-lint has reported that Netflix plans to launch, later this year, an update for its mobile app to save on data charges. The function will limit quality to save data. The company will also …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Streaming Video| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Nokia Will Re-Enter Smartphone Market

by Tom Allen

Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia, confirmed the company’s plans to re-enter the smartphone market at MWC. This did not come as a huge shock, of course – we have been reporting on rumours to …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 3G & 4G| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 08

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Innolux Recovers From Quake Damage

by Tom Allen

Innolux has fully restored production at eight factories in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, which were damaged in an earthquake in early February (Earthquake Rocks Taiwan Production Base). A G5 and G6 factory were …

Tags:Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 07

SDC Offers Standard AMOLED Solutions

by Isaac Oburu

Taiwan-based supply chain makers say that Samsung Display has offered standard AMOLED touch panel solutions for common use, to keep prices down. This, they say, is an attempt to reach Chinaese smartphone vendors. According …

Tags:AMOLED| China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 07

The Virtuix Treadmill is Now a Consumer Product

by Arthur Berman

A continuing challenge in virtual reality is dealing with issues that relate to user movement. One such issue is, perhaps, best illustrated by an example. Consider a user wearing a VR headset. If the …

Tags:Game Controllers| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 07

VR is Child’s Play

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I went to the 2016 North American International Toy Fair on February 15th & 16th to see the latest in toy technology, especially how it relates to displays. Normally I only go to the …

Tags:Education| Toys| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Samsung S7 Display Shoot-Out

by Steve Sechrist

Samsung mobile, famous for its AMOLED displays has targeted high brightness and daylight readability in their newest Galaxy S7 flagship offerings. The S7 and Edge achieved an almost 25% brightness increase over last year’s …

Tags:AMOLED| Samsung| Shoot Outs| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 07