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Most analysts would agree, the age of wearables is upon us and many are looking to fancy new flexible LCD and OLED displays to drive adoption into the mainstream. But BeBop Sensors (Berkeley, CA) believes that the makers of new displays for wearables may be on the verge of being blindsided with the advent of … Read more
Chinese phone company Xiaomi is to scale back its overseas expansion plans and concentrate on boosting production of its devices through Foxconn Technology Group. A spokesman for Xiaomi was quoted as saying that the company’s focus is to expand ‘one market at a time’. The company had planned to move into Thailand, Russia, Mexico, Brazil … Read more
The YotaPhone 2, from Russia’s Yota Devices, has received an upgrade from the original handset (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 50) – notably in screen technology. Like the original, the second-generation smartphone features both a TFT display and an E Ink screen. However, unlike the first device, the main display is AMOLED (5″, 1920 x … Read more
The Iconia Talk S is Acer’s first 4G tablet. With support for voice calling and two SIM slots, it is intended to fully replace a smartphone. A quad-core Snapdragon processor runs Android on the 7″ tablet. The ‘HD’ display (we’ve complained about this terminology so many times…HD can refer to several resolutions, but on tablets … Read more
The Blackberry Classic smartphone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41) is now available for pre-order in the UK. It is listed for £290 ($455). The world’s thinnest tablet – Dell‘s Venue 8 7000 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37) – will be launched at CES 2015. The tablet features a 7″ OLED display and is … Read more
The Tab 8W from Acer (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36) is now available in Europe, starting at £135 ($210). The company has also started to sell the Liquid Leap smartband (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 18), for £65 ($100). The Blackberry Classic smartphone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41) is now available for pre-order. … Read more
A quad-core SoC, with many applications areas, has been introduced by Actions Semiconductor. The ATM7059 is primarily designed for mid-tier Android tablets; however, it can also be used in set-top boxes, smart monitors, ultrabooks, digital signage and other cloud-connected devices. Based on a 28nm process, the SoC is a 1.6GHz ARM Cortex A9-based CPU. A … Read more
ASMedia, in Taiwan, has signed contracts for a partnership with AMD. Details of the relationship have not been disclosed, except to say that it is related to next-generation chipset technology.
Ams AG has released a new family of chips that integrate six sensing functions, including gesture detection and Mobeam barcode emulation. The chips are part of the TMG399x family. They are intended for use in touchless gesture control and display management in consumer electronics. Gesture software on the devices currently supports optimised Android drivers. A … Read more
The developers of a Mac video upload app, Waltr, have found that the A8 processors in Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus can playback UltraHD video. Apple has not even mentioned this feature; original source The Unofficial Apple Weblog speculates that this is because the company plans to integrate the playback with the next … Read more
Analysing Apple data over the last 11 years, 369 Week has concluded that the company is ‘giving its customers a break’. Apple is paying more 369 claims and keeping extended 369 prices steady, resulting in ‘a more even-handed balance between product 369 and extended 369 than existed at the company five or ten years ago’. … Read more
A more efficient way to transport electrical charge has been discovered by a team of researchers. Led by David Barbero of Sweden’s Umeå University, it was discovered that semiconducting polymers, placed on a layer of graphene, transport electrical charge more efficiently than when placed on a silicon substrate. When placed on a graphene substrate, there … Read more
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