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Nokia Will Re-Enter Smartphone Market

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 the same effect since last April (Rumour: Nokia Getting Back into the Phone Business?)! Suri implied that Nokia will license its … Read more

Innolux Recovers From Quake Damage

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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 the most heavily affected, and these are now operating again. However, it will take ‘some time’ to return to original yield … Read more

SDC Offers Standard AMOLED Solutions

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 to sources, prices for a 5″ Full HD in-cell touch panels currently stand at $20 – $23 for an LCD type … Read more

The Virtuix Treadmill is Now a Consumer Product

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 user is sitting motionless on a couch, then the sense of immersion within a dynamic, action packed virtual world can be … Read more

Samsung S7 Display Shoot-Out

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 S6 model according to DisplayMate Labs and Dr. Ray Soneira recent published findings. Even more impressive is news on the performance … Read more

Wearable Growth in Triple Digits

The worldwide wearable market jumped forward in Q4’15, says IDC, due to the rising popularity of fitness trackers and the Apple Watch. 27.4 million units were shipped in Q4, 126.9% higher than Q4’14. For the full year, vendors shipped 78.1 million units: an even more significant increase of 171.6% YoY. “Triple-digit growth…shows that wearables are … Read more

Kyocera and SunPartner Boost Solar Efficiency

Kyocera primarily produces smartphones for the US and Japanese markets. The company is now expanding to Canada and Latin America, as well. In the USA, the company’s focus is on rugged models: from waterproof units all the way up to MIL-compliant models. Many of Kyocera’s customers have employees in the field, and so need phones … Read more

Epson Ditches LCD for OLED in Moverio

It has been several years since we saw the first Moverio headset from Epson – a look through our archives shows that the product was first revealed in November 2011. The Moverio is an augmented reality wearable using an LCD pico projector – at least, it was until now. For the third generation (Moverio BT-300), … Read more

Restructuring Halts Toshiba Product Launch

Wearvue grew out of the Toshiba Glass concept, first seen in 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41)An augmented reality product from Toshiba, called the Wearvue TG-01, has been scrapped – just one week before it was due to be shipped. Toshiba announced the Wearvue, which was intended for users in warehouses and factories to … Read more

Samsung Advances Open IoT Ecosystem with New Partner Program and Commercial Availability of the SAMSUNG ARTIK™ Platform

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced significant momentum for the SAMSUNG ARTIK™ IoT platform. The company announced that the SAMSUNG ARTIK platform is commercially available – a big step forward in bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) to everyday life. SAMSUNG ARTIK development kits can be ordered from Samsung’s channel partner Digi-Key Electronics starting February … Read more

GSMA Mobile IoT Initiative Welcomes First Low Power Wide Area Solutions at Mobile World Congress

The first live demonstrations of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed spectrum will be on display at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA announced today. Visitors will experience a diverse range of solutions underpinned by three complementary technology standards known as Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT), Extended Coverage EGPRS (EC-EGPRS) and … Read more