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The China Smartphone Market Picks Up Slightly in 2014Q4, IDC Reports

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), 107.5 million smartphones were shipped to China in 2014Q4, representing a 2% Quarter-on-Quarter (QoQ) growth. This culminates to 420.7 million smartphones being shipped to China in 2014. The market also picked up in 2014Q4, where it saw a Year-on-Year (YoY) growth of 19% in 2014Q4 as compared to … Read more

OLEDs Coming for Commercial Applications

Priveview 55OLED

While LG is leading the charge to bring OLEDs to the consumer TV market, firms like Primeview are working hard to bring the technology to commercial and professional applications ranging from military and aerospace, to broadcast and control rooms, to high-end retailers. At ISE 2015, the company launched the new 55” OLED panel with HDBaseT … Read more

Corning’s New Iris Glass to Enable Thinner TVs

In the flurry of news from CES, we did not get a chance to delve deeply into an announcement of a new glass called Iris that was revealed by Corning (Corning Stays Ahead in Display Glass). In a conversation with John Bayne, general manager and vice president, Corning High Performance Displays and Advanced Glass Innovations, … Read more

Park Implies Wireless Charging for S6

Seho Park, Samsung’s lead IT and mobile engineer, has written a blog post (http://tinyurl.com/nzvhwbz) on wireless charging – heavily implying that the technology will be a feature of the Galaxy S6. He writes that, “It is expected that 2015 will be a landmark year for the growth of wireless charging deployment… With our upcoming Galaxy … Read more

Unilumin Highlights Control Room Applications

Unilumin told us last year that it is the third largest of the several hundred LED video wall suppliers in China. This year, the company was highlighting applications in control rooms and other small pixel pitch LED applications. There was a large 2.6mm video wall that is designed for rental and indoor use. Unilumin’s 138″ … Read more

Samsung Display Clarifies Transparent OLEDs

Samsung Display was tucked away in a meeting room and was talking to its clients and specifiers for LFDs. As we went into the booth, we were met by the four way 55″ transparent OLED video wall that we saw at CES. Once again, photos were banned. However, we were able to clarify one point. … Read more

Avalue Launches New OPS Digital Signage Player Solutions

Avalue Technology Inc., the global Embedded Solution provider, and an associate member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance. Avalue is unveiling the new Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) digital signage player solutions – SOPM-HM65 and SOPM-QM87. SOPM-HM65 is powered by Intel® 2nd/ 3rd Generation Core™ i7/ i5/ i3, Pentium® and Celeron® Processors with Intel® … Read more