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After many months at the top, Sony’s Playstation 4 has been dislodged from the top-selling console spot by Microsoft’s Xbox One. Display Daily Comment The full graphic is a little large to include here, but definitely relevant: http://tinyurl.com/kf4kx92. (TA)
A survey commissioned by TigerMobiles.com has shown that in the UK children as young as four can be expecting a smartphone for Christmas. The survey of parents with 4 to 12 year old children showed that electronic gadgets were very strong on the Christmas shopping list, with 96% of parents having one or the other … Read more
Thin clients achieved single-digit growth in EMEA in Q3’14, says IDC, competing directly (and intensely) for market share with commercial PCs. While these products are still niche in the region, they have grown faster than the market average throughout 2014. IDC expects thin clients’ EMEA shipment share to rise from 4.2% in 2013 to 4.4% … Read more
Since last January, start-up hardware company Prynt SAS (Paris, France) has been working to develop a product that can turn a smartphone into the modern day equivalent of a Polaroid camera. The device consists of a so-called “Prynt Case” into which the smartphone is inserted. After capture, the photo is sent via Bluetooth directly to … Read more
Korean Inha University researchers have developed a new shadow mask production method, which may raise high-resolution (500ppi+) OLED yield rates. It is possible that the new technique could entirely replace the existing etching process or technologies for laser-based manufacturing. The new technique uses an electrochemical processing method and enables surface processing and shaping, which is … Read more
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
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