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In October, Lenovo completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google and has now said that it believes it can return the business to profitability within 18 months. No official announcement has been made but reports suggest that Lenovo can only achieve this by reducing Motorola’s workforce. Around 3,500 Motorola employees have transferred to Lenovo … Read more
German airline Lufthansa will begin equipping its pilots with the Surface Pro 3 tablet from next year, replacing the existing cockpit laptops. More than 5,000 tablets have been ordered, as well as special docking stations. The first tablets will be put to use in February and the roll-out should be completed by the middle of … Read more
Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 43), Microvision signed a $1.5 million agreement with a Fortune Global 100 customer. The customer has now followed this with an additional $1.9 million purchase order for ‘key components’ for an HD display module. Display Daily Comments The unnamed customer is believed to be Sony. (TA)
Microvision Inc. narrowed its third quarter net loss to $3.3 million from $3.6 million a year earlier, while turnover was little changed year on year at $968,000 compared with $964,000. The company’s net loss in the first nine months was $14.7 million on turnover of $2.8 million, which compares with a net loss in the … Read more
A US court has rejected an antitrust lawsuit brought by Motorola Mobility against several Asian LCD manufacturers. Many companies have pleaded guilty and been fined in the price-fixing cartel which operated between 2001 and 2006. However, they disputed Motorola’s claims that it had paid too much for LCD phone screens because of the scheme. Judge … Read more
The Nokia brand is known for Windows and Windows Phone products – especially since the acquisition of the smartphone unit by Microsoft. Now the Finnish company has surprised everyone by releasing a high-end Android tablet called the N1. The foremost feature is Android 5.0, running on an Intel 64-bit processor (quad-core 2.4GHz, Intel Atom Z3580). … Read more
A new display color accuracy metric was developed by DisplayMate and used by the lab, to help identify the mobile display panel with the best absolute color accuracy. The lab made famous by its Industry Display Shoot-Outs, tested AMOLED and LCD display panels from a field of the Top Six Mobile Display Devices and identified … Read more
The Netfront Browser NX product from Access has been chosen as the browser for Nintendo’s New Nintendo 3DS and 3DS LL handheld consoles.
Since 2012, Display Central has published roughly 60 articles that discuss the Oculus Rift. I’ve reviewed most of them and not one of them mentions the terrible image quality produced by the head mounted virtual reality (VR) system. A more common type of headline is “Oculus Rift at SXSW: Is Virtual Reality the Holy Grail … Read more
Shipments of wearable electronic devices for fitness will dip slightly next year, as the functionality of smartwatches, smart wristbands and other wearable fitness monitors overlaps. Gartner expects shipments to reach 68.1 million units, down from 70 million in 2014. Following the dip, shipments of smart wristbands and other fitness monitors will rebound in 2016, thanks … Read more
The Multiphone 5507 Duo is a 5″ dual-SIM smartphone, with cloud storage. As well as 8GB of internal storage, owners can access 200GB of Prestigio’s Multicloud storage for one year. Featuring a 3G connection and 2,000mAh battery, the 5507 Duo runs Android 4.4 on a 1.2GHz quad-core processor (Qualcomm MSM8212). An IPS panel with 1280 … Read more
Qualcomm is planning to cut 600 jobs worldwide as the company tries to refocus its business in new areas. The news comes at a difficult time for Qualcomm, which has been the subject of regulatory investigations into its business practices in China, the US and EU (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26 & 44) and … Read more
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