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UK mobile operator Vodafone has released an own-brand Android smartphone, which competes with rivals with an ultra-low price point for its size. The Smart Ultra 6 is a 5.5″ smartphone with 1920 x 1080 resolution (IPS panel). The 3,000mAh battery will last for up to two days on a single charge, says Vodafone. 4G (still … Read more
An HTC developer, known as LlabTooFeR, sent a tweet this month claiming that a larger version of HTC’s One M9 would go on sale in Europe in Q3. The One M9+ will be sold in Germany, Italy, Russia and “some other Western/Eastern EU countries”, the developer said, due to its successful sales. Today, the M9+ … Read more
IHS DisplaySearch has released panel data for June, when prices continued to fall. Market demand for notebooks is still weak. Consumers are deferring purchases, preferring to wait for Windows 10 and Intel’s Skylake chips. Notebook vendors recently negotiated concessions with component makers, to lower set prices or offer a commission for channel sales. New models … Read more
A CPT subsidiary, CPT Technology, expects to begin construction of new G6 facilities in Fujian, China in Q3’15. Mass-production will begin in the second half of 2017. The factory will produce small-to-medium-size panels, as well as 20″ – 32″ UltraHD niche products, said president Lin Sheng-chang. ‘Niche’, in this case, refers to specific applications such … Read more
There were more than 900 million pay-TV customers worldwide in Q1’15, according to ABI Research – representing 48% technology penetration. The market is forecast to grow ‘steadily’ over the next five years, with the main boosts coming from emerging markets. 50% penetration – 1 billion households – will be achieved by 2017. ARPU is falling … Read more
Panasonic announced its PT-RZ12K laser phosphor projector at Infocomm, a new model that comes with 12,000 lumen and three DLP chips (0.96″ WUXGA 1920 x 1200 resolution) and boasts a 20,000:1 contrast ratio. With a 120 Hz refresh rate it is compatible with high frame rate content. The projector comes with no standard lens and … Read more
DD Technologies, a Vancouver, Canada-based company has started its crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo. So far it has reached around 35% of its $50,000 goal in one week. The head up display (HUD) is projection based and comes with a resolution of 720p. Most interestingly there are two versions under development, Iris DLP and Iris … Read more
I’ve been an educational technology director for 25 years, with a significant track record in large educational technology and AV purchases. I just returned from walking every aisle of Infocomm 2015, poking my head into corners it certainly didn’t belong in. Education Perspectives I was searching for promising trends, developments and products that might offer … Read more
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced the introduction of the U24E590D and U28E590D, the first Samsung UHD monitors with AMD’s FreeSync™ technology. These UHD monitors offer unprecedented picture quality for gaming, entertainment and multi-tasking activities. The U24E590D and U28E590D are the first UHD Samsung monitors with AMD FreeSync™ capabilities. FreeSync synchronizes the monitors’ refresh rates to … Read more
Danny Barr is from ZeeVee and he talked about extending and switching UltraHD video in mission-critical applications. His talk was entitled “The 3 Cs of Video Distribution:Complexity, Compression and Cost”. ZeeVee’s history is in video distribution and it started by delivering video over coax, while it has added IP distribution now. He started by talking … Read more
Micha Risling is from the HDBaseT Alliance and also works for Valens, the semiconductor company behind the technology. As had already been said, the big challenge in interfaces is how to extend for longer distance and higher bandwidth. HDMI and DisplayPort do a great job, but “how do you extend?”, he asked. The challenge is … Read more
Marshall Goldberg is from Lattice Semiconductor, which recently bought Silicon Image, the developer of HDMI and MHL and the owners of the SiBeam wireless technology. Goldberg went through the history of HDMI from V1.4 at 4K30 in 2009 to SuperMHL in 2014 at 8K120. He also pointed out that the specification for 4k UltraHD on … Read more
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