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Sony has taken on EET Europarts as a new distributor in the Nordic region. EET will handle Sony’s consumer products in the TV, home theatre, home audio, headphones & portable audio, digital camera and video camera segments.
Visionox has developed a small, high-resolution AMOLED panel, using fine metal mask technology. The 4.85″ unit has 2560 x 1440 resolution (604 ppi) and uses the company’s RGB sub-pixel arrangement.
The 8″ Nvidia Shield tablet has been re-released, after it stopped selling the device earlier this year. Nothing has changed aside from some minor alterations to the case, and the price: the tablet now costs $200, down from $300. In an attempt to cut costs, Nvidia has also removed the charger, micro-USB cable and stylus … Read more
Control room and video wall specialist Vtron will show its new ‘hybrid’ display wall system at ISE 2016. The product combines Digicom’s ARK3000 and IP-based CLINK 1000 processors, with Vtron’s VIS video wall control software. In addition, the company will show its various display solutions, including small-pixel-pitch LED displays (down to 1.2mm) and Visionpro rear … Read more
Huawei has published a video showing an extremely fast charge of a smartphone battery – five minutes to 50% capacity. The battery is removed from the phone (sorry, iPhone users) and placed in a separate power brick-type unit, then removed five minutes later and re-inserted. Huawei has not released any information about the technology, but … Read more
Windows 10 Mobile has been expected to solve the issue of a lack of apps on the Windows smartphone platform, by making porting them over from iOS and Android a simple process. However, while the iOS version (Project Islandwood) has been shown to work, the Android equivalent (Project Astoria) is nowhere to be seen. Microsoft … Read more
As part of the planned merger with Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia has named Markus Borchet as the new head of Europe for the company. Borchet is currently SVP of the European market at Nokia Networks.
Norway’s Norautron Group is to acquire 100% of Hatteland Display from Herkules Capital. Norautron is an EMS provider and Hatteland manufactures maritime displays and computers. Including Hatteland Display, Norautron will have an estimated annual turnover of NOK1.8 billion ($207.5 million). The management teams of both companies will work together to establish a platform for continued … Read more
Apple’s newest crop of tablets including the iPad Mini4, iPad Air2 and brand new flagship tablet from Apple, the iPad Pro gained “unrivaled record holder” performance status in ambient light conditions, mostly due to their “significantly lower” reflectance numbers when compared to rival tablets currently shipping in the industry. This, according to Dr. Ray Soneira … Read more
SIS Digital has installed a 3.6m x 6.6m Philips ‘Showall’ LED display in the UK city of Leeds. Situated at The Pinnacle on Bond Street, the screen has a 10mm pixel pitch and 5,500 cd/m² of brightness. Wireless and NFC technologies are built in. Analyst Comment We were under the impression that Philips had left … Read more
BrightSign players have been used in a large-scale network rollout of almost 400 screens in Turkey. Linova Digital Medya Teknolojileri built the network for Shell garage forecourts. BrightSign’s Network Enterprise Edition player was chosen due to its security and reliability. Over the next 12 months, the Shell TV Network will expand to 1,000 stores across … Read more
If you think that augmented reality glasses are some kind of technology for the future, think again. Recently a 13 year old boy, Jordan Fung from Hong Kong announced a homemade version of a head mounted display based on an Arduino Nano board. Source: Jordan’s Tech Show (YouTube Video) Arduino is an electronics platform for … Read more
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