Xiaomi Chooses Synpatics
Xiaomi is using Synaptics’ Clearpad touchscreen and display driver solutions for its Mi Note and Note Pro smartphones.
Invisage Uses QDs in Light Capture Film
US-based Invisage Technologies is developing a light capture film for image sensors, based on quantum dots. The company has now opened its first sensor-manufacturing facility at the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. The films (QuantumFilm technology) will be introduced later this year. Invisage is working with TSMC for wafer manufacturing and VisEra Technologies for colour … Read more
Regulator Shares Samsung Specs
Samsung’s Galaxy A8 smartphone, which has been the subject of rumours for several months, has appeared at China’s TENAA regulatory commission. The phone will be shipped with a 5.7″ AMOLED display (1920 x 1080). Android 5.1 will run on an octa-core processor (1.7GHz Snapdragon 615), with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. The battery … Read more
LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 26
Smart Technologies‘ 84″ Smart Kapp 84 capture board (Smart Takes a Lesson From Boogie Board) is now available in Europe. It is being distributed by TD Maverick, Tech Data and Ingram Micro. (for more on the Smart Kapp iQ display, see our Infocomm report – Smart Adds iQ Displays to Kapp. The extremely thin X900C … Read more
Philadelphia Regulates Signage
The city of Philadelphia has introduced new signage regulations, limiting the amount of advertising in the city. For every new digital billboard erected, two static billboards must be removed.
Merck Makes €30 Million OLED Investment
Merck has begun construction on a new OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt, Germany. The 2,000m² facility, which will be the target of a €30 million investment, will start production of materials for displays and lighting by July 2016. The company has said that it wants to be the leading supplier of OLED materials by … Read more
AR and VR Sales to Rise 10 Times by 2018
CCS Insight has predicted that 2.5 million VR and AR devices will be sold this year – increasing to 24 million in 2018. CCS Insight praised the work of company’s such as Google, which has enabled many consumers to test VR using headsets like Google Cardboard.
Wiko’s Dramatically Cuts Resolution
Wiko’s Rainbow smartphones are offered in white, black, green red or blue.French manufacturer Wiko has followed its Rainbow smartphone with a ‘concentrated version’ called the Rainbow Lite. It is an entry-level model (the tag line is ‘Back to basics!’); although is features a large (5″) display, with an IPS panel, resolution is only 854 x … Read more
Nokia Plans Smartphone Return
Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia, has said that he wants to resurrect the brand’s name on smartphones. Speaking to Germany’s Manager Magazin, Sureev said that Microsoft will lose control of the brand name in 2016. Nokia is already looking for suitable partners to sign a licensing deal. Nokia is banned from the smartphone market until … Read more
Business Tablet Use Continues Quick Climb
Business tablet adoption is accelerating in the UK, France and Germany, says IDC. Penetration is expected to exceed 15% of the total client base by 2018 – compared to just 6% in the second half of 2014. IDC found that enterprise tablet use is no longer limited to executives; 60% are used by line-of-business staffMore … Read more
First Fall for MEA Tablets
After several years of successive gains, the MEA tablet market recorded its first-ever YoY decline in Q1’15, says IDC. Shipments fell 5.8%, to just over 3.8 million units. IDC said that the lower performance was caused by a sharp decline in Turkey – the region’s largest tablet market – where shipments were almost halved from … Read more
Italy Likely to Miss 2020 Deadline
Italy’s communications regulator, Agcom, has said that the country is unlikely to meet the 2020 deadline for turning the 700MHz spectrum over to the telecoms sector. Agcom’s Vincenzo Lobianco said that a switch to DVB-T2 would be long and expensive. He added that even a 2022 deadline would be “challenging”.
