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Leaked photos from Gizmodo China appear to show an upcoming Lenovo smartphone, said to be the Vibe Z3 Pro. Like other Vibe models, it is characterised by straight edges and a metallic bumper. Rumoured specs include a 5.5″ display (2560 x 1440), 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 CPU. The phone … Read more
Polariser prices have dropped by about 3% per quarter for ‘the last few quarters’, sources have said, with the trend expected to continue in Q1’15. The decline will slow by Q2. Orders are expected to remain healthy in Q1, but could fall slightly in February during Asia’s Lunar New Year holiday.
The DirecTV group will end 2015 with a higher number of pay-TV subscribers in Latin American than in the USA for the first time, according to research from Dataxis. As of Q3’14, US customers represented 51.7% of DirecTV’s 39.1 million global subscribers; the remaining 48.3% were divided between the Caribbean and LATAM. Market share has … Read more
Touch panel makers in China plan to lower in-cell pricing by 15% – 20% this year, to increase their competitiveness and retain a leading market share, say supply chain sources. More handset vendors in the country are expected to use in-cell touch in mid-range and high-end units this year and will seek competitively-priced solutions. Huawei … Read more
A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia, supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as MacOS versions from 10.8 to 10.10. Users can use the adapter to send signals from a USB source … Read more
At the upcoming ISE in the Amsterdam RAI February 10 -12, Christie Digital will officially introduce its latest projector targeting the Rental and Staging market, the Boxer 4K30 projector. This projector is a 3-DLP projector with 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution and 30,000 center lumens output (29,000 ANSI). The projector uses 1.38″ DMDs and provides … Read more
One of the most attractive ways to create an augmented reality image is to simply have a thin, transparent waveguide in front of the eye that can display the desired images or symbols. AR eyewear from Vuzix and Microsoft (who called theirs “HoloLens”) both appear to use a surface relief grating (SRG) approach to extract … Read more
A new article published by SID – Information Display discusses the challenges and barriers for creating the flexible AMOLED used in LG’s G Flex smartphone. The article describes the solutions LG developed to make the flexible display. Here is a short summary, for more information, please read the complete article on the SID website. LG … Read more
Computacenter has signed an agreement with Arrow Electronics to sell its IT disposal and recycling business, RDC, for £56 million ($85.3 million). RDC is considered to be one of Europe’s largest IT recycling firms but contributed only 1.4% of Computacenter’s total turnover. Under the terms of the agreement, Arrow has also entered into a five … Read more
Pebble has hit a new milestone, having sold its millionth smartwatch on 31st December last year. The figure doubles what Pebble reported in March 2014, thanks to price cuts and the addition of new features.
Markets and Markets has released a new research report (http://tinyurl.com/l2occhu), predicting that the pico projector market will be worth $9.32 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 39.82%. Pico projectors are expected to become integrated in mobile phones and digital cameras, with shrinking chipsets also leading to projector miniaturisation. Most pico models are currently DLP … Read more
The Playstation 4 and Xbox One disappointed when they were launched, with no mention of UltraHD gaming. We’re still not there, but a bright spot has appeared for fans of the format. According to the Huffington Post, Netflix’s John Hunt claims that Sony has “promised” a new version of the PS4 that will support UltraHD … Read more
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