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Square Trade, the independent insurance company for mobile devices, has released a ranking of tablets by their durability. The company rated each device based on its breakability, durability, water resistance and slide and drop resistance. It applied its own test procedures to the various devices, rating them on a scale of 1 to 10, with … Read more
Sony has announced an augmented reality headset based on a single-lens OLED display module, similar to the Google Glass headset. Sony announced the SmartEyeglass device and the software development kit earlier in September 2014, however the latest announcement shows a different device and some exciting display technology at the same time. The latest images shown … Read more
Mobile phone shipment volume will reach 529 million units in Q4’14, according to Taiwan’s MIC. Of this number, 373 million units will be smartphones, representing a 12.7% QoQ rise. Despite the shipment rise, Samsung (the leading global smartphone vendor) saw its share fall in the second half of 2014. MIC attributes this to rising competition … Read more
Sources have told The Japan Times that Sharp is likely to supply its Free-Form Display (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25) to Nintendo. The FFD has a minimal bezel and does not need to be rectangular; the first concepts shown had areas ‘cut out’ to make room for automotive dials and displays. While traditional LCD … Read more
Royole, a start-up with operations in China and the USA, said that it has developed a flexible OLED display with a thickness of just 10µm. The full-colour unit has a bend radius of 1mm and was apparently integrated into a smartphone in July this year.
Qualcomm Technologies (QTI) first publicly mentioned the Snapdragon 810 in April 2014, and positioned it as Qualcomm’s new flagship application processor (AP). It featured a new GPU design, and a half dozen new firsts. Then, in the first week in December, a story appeared in Business Korea claiming the chip “overheats when it reaches a … Read more
The development of a new range of smartphones has been postponed or cancelled by Samsung. According to internal sources, the ‘U Series’ – a high-end super-slim line – has been scrapped due to falling mobile sales (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 40). The phones were meant to be part of a move to consolidate the … Read more
IDTechEX recently discussed in a webinar the status of flexible barrier technology for OLED in display, lighting and photovoltaic applications. The company has also recently released a market report on the topic. The webinar discussed the basic requirements for the encapsulation of OLED devices against moisture and oxygen. There are several approaches to the issue … Read more
A successor model to Panasonic’s (1.P20) PT-DZ21K (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 6) will be on show. Additionally, the company will demonstrate laser projectors and an UltraHD model using a new ‘quadrupling’ technology (this may be similar to JVC’s e-Shift, but that’s only a theory! – TA). Additionally, visitors to the stand will see Panasonic’s … Read more
I bet most of you thought that when you had a device with HDMI 2.0 that it can support 4k at 60fps and included HDCP 2.2. It turns out that just like previous generations of the standard, there are optional items that may or may not be included. And today, all are being marketed as … Read more
As 2014 comes to an end, market researchers start their forecasts of what is to come in consumer electronics in 2015 and beyond. One of the first companies to share its views on technology development in coming years is Gartner. The company has released some of its expectations at recent events and press releases. PCR … Read more
Sources in Taiwan’s supply chain have said that Mozilla is likely to work with Chinese vendors to produce Firefox-based smartphones. These phones will be sold in Africa through Millicom’s subsidiaries next year. Mozilla has been working with vendors including TCL, ZTE and Huawei, as well as Spice and Intex in India and Cherry Mobile for … Read more
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