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LG announced a new range of mid-priced smartphones that will be officially launched at CES. The phones bring technology down from higher LG models including a 120º wide angle front camera lens and rear fingerprint scanner. There are four models in the K series, and one that is Stylus (Stylo in the US). The K10 … Read more
LG Electronics (LG) will unveil four new mass-tier K Series smartphones and a new Stylus 3 at CES® 2017 in Las Vegas, as the mid-range segment continues its strong growth as the market matures. The new mid-range devices are designed to bring popular, best-in-class technologies from LG’s more premium flagship smartphones, such as the 120-degree … Read more
Rental company, Warpro, has used a Panasonic RZ31K projector, which has 30,000 lumens of output to replace dual projectors used in previous years in Edinburgh’s ‘Street of Light’. The challenge is to compete with 60,000 bulbs used to create ‘ almost daylight ambient light levels’. The building is the Tigerlily Hotel on the city’s George … Read more
IHS Markit said that Chinese makers hit one million units of shipment of AMOLEDs for the first time in Q3, but that is less than 2% of the AMOLED smartphone market. Overall volume was 101 million, with Samsung supplying 99.7 million. The small number of Chinese panels was split three ways, between EverDisplay Optronics, Tianma … Read more
It’s not a display, but knowing that readers are interested in ‘visual things’, I thought that it was worth reporting on a new device developed by a “top 5 French Kickstarter” project to develop the SteadXP, which is a stabilisation device for action cams and DSLRs that is independent of the camera. The device uses … Read more
VRTouch is a new haptic wearable device that is designed to complement a VR headset. VRTouch is fully wireless, and has the size of a ring. The scalability of the concept involving one, two, or even ten fingers equipped with the same device allows the right user experience for many different applications such as gaming, … Read more
JDI has confirmed that it has received the cash from INCJ that it was expecting, but has also published a business plan, which can be downloaded here. The plan doesn’t add much to the previous disclosures but highlights that it wants to move to getting more than half of its business from non-mobile display sales … Read more
JDI has confirmed that it has received the cash from INCJ that it was expecting, but has also published a business plan, which can be downloaded here. The plan doesn’t add much to the previous disclosures but highlights that it wants to move to getting more than half of its business from non-mobile display sales … Read more
SmartKem of the UK, which is developing organic semiconductors, has received further funding from existing syndicate members of £3 million ($3.7 million). The money will be used to help the movement of the company’s organic transistors into production and to support the development of flexible OLEDs which will use the technology for substrates Steve Kelly, … Read more
Gartner said that by 2019, it expects 20% of all user interactions with smartphones will take place via VPAs such as Siri, Cortana or Google Now. A survey of 3,021 consumers found that 42% of respondents in the US and 32% in the UK had used VPAs on their smartphones in the last three months. … Read more
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearables market continued to see steady growth in Q3 2016, according to IDC. The firm said that the Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearables market grew 38.3% year on year in Q3 2016 to total approximately 487,000 units. The growth is being driven by low-cost basic wearables (i.e., devices … Read more
Huami, the subsidiary of Xiaomi that is supplying wearables, will ship 16 million devices this year, including the Xiaomi Mi Band, according to Asian sources. The value of the devices will be $216 million according to a report on qq.com. The report also said that over 100,000 sports smartwatches have been shipped in Q4, after … Read more
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