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The record quarterly sales performance in Q3 2015 can be attributed to three markets: China, which returned to growth, the MEA and emerging APAC. In total, 324m smartphone units were sold. The US$294 average selling price (ASP) of smartphones was down 2 percent year-on-year. Smartphone sales Q3 2014 vs Q3 2015 Units Sold (in mil.) … Read more
The wearable tech industry is projected to grow 64 percent over the next three years, reaching $25 billion in 2019 when more than 245 million devices are expected to ship. The growth of this market is paralleled on theCES® 2016 show floor where the Wearables Marketplace and related lifestyle exhibit areas have more than tripled … Read more
Global LCD TV shipments for 2015 will total 216 million sets, according to the latest estimation by WitsView, a division of TrendForce. This year’s shipments will represent a slight annual decline, for the first time since the shipment slide in 2013. In the short term, consumer spending will generally remain weak due to the sluggish … Read more
It’s time to meet Q Founder, the newest addition to Fossil’s connected accessories line. Engineered with Intel® Innovation and powered by Android Wear, Q Founder tracks your activity, connects to your favorite apps, alerts you of your notifications and has customizable digital watch faces that are sure to fit your style. With its stunning touchscreen … Read more
Earlier this year, Panasonic showed its complete line-up of UltraHD TVs at CES 2015, and announced more information about them in February (Panasonic Goes All-Out With UltraHD). At the time, we heard about an entry-level range, but nothing more has been said about it until now. Panasonic is introducing its CX Series in time for … Read more
PMA has published its data on sales of large-format (32″+) displays in the USA during October. The results showed strong YoY gains, with 70″+ and ultra-narrow bezel models being particularly popular. Professional unit sales rose 26% YoY in October, while revenues climbed 45%. 70″+ units had a new record market share of 10% amongst these … Read more
Heraeus and Taiwan’s Industrial Technolgy Research Institute (ITRI) have been working together for several years. Their work has been focused on touch screens, using Heraeus’ Clevios conductive polymer-based touch panels (ITRI and Heraeus Scale Non-ITO Touch, High Resolutions Rule Touch Taiwan). The organisations have now collaborated to develop an improved mass-manufacturing process for the Clevios-based … Read more
It’s easy to miss, but on page 11 of Quantum Materials Corp’s latest quarterly report you can, if you choose, find “Note 6” entitled “Deferred Revenue.” But I won’t make you look. Here’s the note: “During the three months ended September 30, 2015, the Company recorded $225,000 of deferred revenue. This represents full payment pursuant … Read more
Free-to-view French satellite platform, Fransat, will begin to broadcast all of its channels in HD from the 1st December. They will be simulcast in SD until April 2016, at the same time as the French DTT platform transitions to HD.
The University of Oxford has spun out one of its developments to be handled by a new company, Bodle Technologies. The work is based on phase change materials, which change their state in response to an external stimulus – such as an electrical charge. We covered the work last year ( ‘Nano-Pixels’ Promise Low-Power, High-Res … Read more
The Kamppi shopping centre in Helsinki, Finland has installed a 14.4m-high LED screen, powered by Matrox’s Mura MPX Series graphics cards. The new display, which is 108m², is around three times the size of its predecessor. It was supplied by DigiLED and installed by Craneworks.
Fossil has released the smartwatch that it previewed at New York Fashion Week earlier this year (Fossil Enters Smartwatch Market With Android). The Q Founder watch is a touchscreen model running Android Wear. It features various traditional smartwatch functions, such as notification alerts and activity tracking. It is supplied with a wireless charging base, and … Read more
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