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Rugged phone maker Cat Phones (part of the Caterpillar brand) has introduced its most durable model to date: the S40. In a survey of former smartphone users, who now use a rugged phone, Cat Phones found that 80% had damaged a handset in the last five years. Half had cracked or shattered the display, and … Read more
New Brand Represents Company’s Sketch-to-Scale™ Solutions to Provide Competitive Advantage in the Age of Intelligence™ Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), a leading sketch-to-scale solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world, announced today that it has officially changed its name to Flex, with a promise to help the world Live smarter™. “We have … Read more
Three years after its launch, Nintendo is closing its TVii service (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 38). TVii was intended to be a single interface for multiple content sources, using the Wii U Game Pad as a remote. However, it lacked popular apps such as Netflix. The news comes six months after Nintendo said that … Read more
Tablet processor chip sales fell 6% YoY in Q1’15, says Strategy Analytics. The market is worth only 1/7 of the smartphone processor market, at $733 million – a 6% decline in value. Apple (28%), Qualcomm (19%), Intel (16%), Mediatek and Samsung were the top application processor vendors by revenue share. Strategy Analytics found that Android-based … Read more
LG will release five new OLED TVs in its home market of Korea in the coming months, including a flat unit. Four of the new models will be UltraHD TVs. According to Business Korea, the TVs have been reduced in thickness, to 4.8mm. This is even thinner than Sony’s X900C LCD TV (4.9mm). Despite showing … Read more
Canon saw Q2 profits of ¥68.2 billion ($559 million), down 16% from the year-ago profit of ¥80.8 billion ($663 million), on revenue of ¥974.4 billion ($7.99 billion), up 5% from ¥926.8 billion ($7.6 billion) a year earlier. For the first six months there were profits of ¥102.1 billion ($837 million), a drop of 20% from … Read more
ViewSonic will show off a prototype of a new curved monitor at Gamescom in Cologne this month. Seen for the first time in Europe (after previously being shown at trade shows in the USA and China), the XG3401 (name is not final) will support AMD’s Freesync technology. Resolution of the IPS panel is 3440 x … Read more
Flextronics has officially changed its name. The company will now be known simply as ‘Flex’, to reflect the fact that it is ‘more than just an EMS, supply chain solutions or a ‘tronics’ company’.
AUO is developing 65″ LCD TV panels combining quantum dots, UltraHD resolution and HDR technology, say Taiwanese media reports. These panels will also be released in 55″ and 85″ sizes, in the second half of this year. They are curved units with a direct-LED backlight system. Local dimming and 110% NTSC gamut coverage are expected.
Sky is said to be finalising the development of a new set-top box, which it hopes will help to defend against OTT operators and BT. The box, called SkyQ, will also help to integrate the company’s European operations. The original Sky box was launched 10 years agoAccording to The Telegraph, the SkyQ box will be … Read more
Voxon, Co. (Adelaide, Australia and San Francisco, CA) has developed a volumetric 3D display called Voxiebox. Voxiebox works by rapidly moving a flat screen up and down. An extremely fast video projector synchronously projects appropriate image slices on to the moving screen. The speed of the screen “vibration” is such that it blurs to invisibility … Read more
Capacitive Touch Takes Off In Growing Wearables Market Synaptics Inc., the leading developer of human interface solutions, today announced that Huawei has selected the Synaptics® ClearPad® touchscreen solution for its stylish smartwatch. Huawei chose the state-of-the-art ClearPad capacitive touch controller for its proven reliability, low power, and highly responsive human interface qualities such as use … Read more
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