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Japan Display Inc (JDI) has said that in 2018 it will start mass production of a new 5.5″ FullHD ‘Full Active’ Flex display based on a plastic substrate. The company highlighted the design opportunities and the resistance to drop damage. The panel can refresh at 60Hz, but can also run driving schemes down to 15Hz … Read more
Vertu specialises in luxury smartphones has a new model, the Constellation, with a 5.5″ 2560 x 1440 AMOLED display with a sapphire cover and a 12MP main camera that can support 2160P30 video. The phone uses a Snapdragon 820 with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The phone will ship in mid-February. Analyst Comment … Read more
TP Vision has confirmed that it will start to show advertising on its Smart TVs in Europe that are intended to reflect the viewer’s viewing, working with Improve Digital to deliver ‘programmatic’ advertising via its 360 Polaris platform. At the moment it is not clear if adverts will only be for TV-related content (e.g. advertising … Read more
Epson has launched three new projectors in most of Europe (although the UK seems to have been left out, for now). The models are for installation and are the EB-5510 (1024 x 768), EB-5520W (1280 x 800) and EB-5530U (1920 x 1200) and all have 5,500 Ansi lumens. The projectors use 0.76″ LCDs with C2 … Read more
To celebrate becoming this year’s UK City of Culture, Hull started the year with seven days of a spectacular called Made in Hull, which was attended by 342,000 people. It was created by Hull-born film-maker Sean McAllister and used light projections across the city’s landmark buildings from 30 projectors. 20 artists prepared mappings using software … Read more
According to Counterpoint Research, Chinese brands have substantially increased their share of the mobile phone market in India, reaching 46% in total. Samsung is top brand, but Vivo, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Oppo take the next four places. In November, the brands reached 51% of the market. The market for smartphones grew 18% over the year … Read more
Taiwanese manufacturers shipped 61.37 large TFT-LCD panels in Q4, up 2% YoY, according to Digitimes Research. Of these 30% were for TV, 32% for notebooks, 21% for monitors and 14% for tablets. Total shipments for 2016 were down 2.3% at 231 million. In Q4, Innolux shipped 11.18 million TV panels, 10.25 million for notebooks, 5.99 … Read more
Corning Inc. announced FY16 Q4 GAAP net sales at $2.47 bn with GAAP net incomes of $1.57 bn, resulting in a very healthy net margin of 63%. The quarterly net sales declined marginally by 1% from previous quarter’s figures while the net income jumped by 454% over previous quarter’s figure of $284.0 mn. The full … Read more
The Economic Daily News has reported that Compal is forecasting a doubling of shipments to smartwatch brand, Fossil, from between 500 and 600 thousand units in 2016 to 1.2 million in 2017. The firm makes the devices in Kunshan, where it also makes tablets. Compal is reported to be planning to make 87 million devices … Read more
More details of the Microsoft Project Scorpio console project are emerging. The console will be compatible with games for the XBox One S but brings UltraHD game play and will have a high power octocore CPU. Software for the new console should also be able to scale back (in resolution and/or frame rate) to run … Read more
The National Retail Federation (NRF) had their 2017 Big Show in New York’s Javits Convention Center January 15 -17. This is not a new thing – the NRF and its trade show have been around for 106 years. It is a pretty big show, with 34,432 attendees, including 25,891 from the US and 8541 foreign … Read more
One of the pre-show press releases from the NRF said, “New innovations and technical capabilities will continue to transform the retail experience, from mobile to personalization to bringing artificial intelligence and augmented reality out of the future and into the present.” Artificial Intelligence (AI) was certainly at the show, including the IBM booth that highlighted … Read more
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