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LG has become nostalgic, announcing an old-style clamshell handset running Android. The LG Gentle, ‘the world’s first smart flip-phone’, will be released in Korea soon. Android Central points out that LG wants to return to a time when clamshell phones were popular – especially in Asia, pre-smartphones. These units, with a physical (T9) keyboard, make … Read more
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) reported Q2 net profits of $696 million, up from profits of $683 million in the year ago quarter, on revenue of $3.23 billion, down from $3.29 billion. For the half year there was profit of $1.35 billion on turnover of $6.38 billion. The company commented that DLP products saw a decline.
The Philips Group saw Q2 net profit of €274 million ($303 million), a rise from €243 million ($268 million) last year, on turnover which increased from €4.97 billion ($5.5 billion) to €5.97 billion ($6.6 billion). For the six months there were profits of €374 million ($413 million), down from €380 million ($420 million), on revenue … Read more
Rumours point to an upcoming announcement of Sony’s next flagship phone, the Xperia Z5, followed by a September launch. Leaksfly claims that the Z5 will have a 5.5″ display, 1920 x 1080 resolution and a Snapdragon 810 processor. There will be an octa-core CPU, Adreno 430 GPU and 3GB of RAM. A fingerprint scanner is … Read more
Display specialist AOC introduces two new 32? (81.3 cm) displays with UHD and QHD resolutions. Both the AOC U3277PQU with its 3840 x 2160 pixel AHVA-IPS panel and the AOC Q3277PQU with its 2560 x 1440 AMVA panel combine high resolutions and an extra-large screen size in order to provide power home users, photographers, designers … Read more
HTC’s Desire series is a long-running smartphone range, with the newest model – the Desire 626 – just launched in Europe. Billed as an affordable alternative to the HTC One M9, the phone uses a different processor, avoiding the overheating problems affecting its premium cousin. While the One M9 uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 CPU, the … Read more
The Moto X and Moto G smartphones from Motorola have been greeted as solid premium and budget phones, respectively; the company is now hoping to repeat its success with the newly-announced 2015 versions. These new models forgo flashy features and focus on getting the basics right. Two models of the Moto X were announced in … Read more
AU Optronics announced Q2 net profit of NTD4.43 billion ($143 million), up from NTD4.02 billion ($130 million) a year ago, on revenue which fell 3.1% to NTD92.3 billion ($2.9 billion). For the first half there was profit of NTD9.7 billion ($308 million), up from NTD4.2 billion ($133 million), on turnover of NTD187.6 billion ($5.95 billion), … Read more
At both ISTE 2015 and InfoComm 2015, it was evident that device/display sharing is quickly becoming all the rage. For those less familiar with this arena, device/display sharing technology is designed to integrate visual control for the array of devices, platforms and technologies schools now use. And that’s a very good thing—to leverage the effectiveness … Read more
Everyone in the display community knows (or should know) of the application of quantum dots to improve display colorimetry to near Rec. 2020 standards. The high spectral purity that makes quantum dots usable for this also makes them usable for other applications in your smart phone. Recently, two researchers from MIT, Jie Bao and Moungi … Read more
The M100 smartglasses platform has been in the market for quite some time and has been offered in a wide range of professional applications. As a short refresher, the M100 smartglasses offer a monocular design similar to the now withdrawn Google Glass, but in contrast to that device, provide see through capability. The M100 has … Read more
The evolution and application of electrophoretic displays (EPD), often referred to as electronic paper (EP) or E-ink displays, have traveled an interesting path as developers work to apply the low power display technology. E-ink first gained a great deal of traction in the e-reader space as exemplified by the Amazon Kindle. Several generations of the … Read more
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