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University of Michigan Group Shows Improved Blue PHOLED

Display Components – A paper revealing a new blue PHOLED technology that could lead to longer battery life in smartphones and other mobile devices has been published in Nature Materials by researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Their developments have extended the lifetime of blue organic light emitting diodes by a factor of 10.  … Read more

iPhone 6 Fingerprint Sensor Not as Safe as You May Think

Smartphone – When Apple comes out with a new smartphone the world notices and many webpages are full of adoration and love. The love comes mostly from the shareholders, which experience around this time of the year some notable increase in their investment. This is achieved by Apple releasing good products in the first place. … Read more

Augmented Reality – Phone or Glasses?

Augmented Reality – As a reader, you know by now about our obsession with virtual and augmented reality. We believe that these are key technologies that will influence or even define the user interface in the future. The question is when this will happen.  So far virtual and augmented reality headsets exist for many years from … Read more

Strategy Analytics Reports on 2Q’14 Processor Shipments for Smartphones and Tablets

Market Intelligence – Strategy Analytics will shortly be releasing its market report on processor shipments and market shares for tablets and smartphones in the second quarter of 2014. The report distinguishes between smartphone baseband processors, smartphone application processors and tablet application processors. The smartphone baseband market reached $5.2 billion in Q2’14, representing a growth of … Read more

The PC, Tablet and Smartphone Market for the Near Future

Norbert Hildebrand, Insight Media analyst

Market Intelligence – In recent months there has been good news on increasing PC sales (notably notebooks) and slowing tablet sales, leading many to believe that the consumer love affair with tablets is over, a sentiment that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple did not share in a recent interview. Cook believes that the tablet market … Read more

Toyota Develops 3D – HUD – not Stereoscopic 3D Though

Source: AutoGuide.com

Head Up Display – The AutoGuide, Car and Driver, and other publications broke the news that Toyota has been developing a 3D HUD (head up display). They reported that Toyota has been working on this new HUD for two years, together with engineers from Silicon Valley. The new HUD is aimed at improving drivers safety by visually identifying … Read more

iPhone 6 Plus – the First Flexible Phone from Apple?

Smartphone – After the release of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it seemed that Apple had produced another winner in the consumer electronics world. This has now been questioned, at least for the iPhone 6 Plus, as several reports point towards some issues with frame distortion after putting the phablet in the pocket. While … Read more

UHD TVs with Subpixel Rendering May have Certification Issues

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Display Metrology –The CEA recently announced a new logo program for UHD TVs. Like most logo or certification programs, one of the criteria is a resolution of 3840 x 2160. For UHD TVs with a traditional RGB stripe pixel architecture that should not be a problem, but many sets now offer non-RGB-stripe pixel architectures where … Read more

Haptics Role in Mobile Devices Endures

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Mobile Displays, User Interface – Recent announcements by Immersion Corporation and Apple show that haptic feedback will continue to play a role in mobile and wearable devices. Haptic enhancements of mobile handset user interfaces that provide users with tactile feedback when operating their devices have been a feature of Android OS based devices for some … Read more

Vizio Launches P-Series UHD TVs

Motion on a Samsung 120Hz TV compared to the Vizio 240Hz TV.

Beyond HD – At CES earlier this year, Vizio announced its new P-series of UltraHD Smart TVs. On September 23rd, the product line was launched, with the TVs starting to ship immediately. I had a chance to see these products at an event Vizio held in New York City. The P-series of TVs have a … Read more

iBeacon Puts Displays at Retail Nexus

Mobile – In our last instalment on Apple Hybrid iBeacon and NFC (Near Field Communications) we said the company is once again demonstrating a canny sense of identifying Gateway Technologies that can empower (and further enrich) its army of code developers who in turn empower us with the unintended consequences of amazing creativity – all over again”.  At … Read more

Can Apple Watch Crack Wearable Mainstream?

Wearables – A new Information Week Reader Survey is flying in the face of more traditional market research firms stating that by its reckoning,  more than two-thirds (66.8% from the 585 sample pool) responded Nix to the idea of an Apple or any other brand of Smart Watch.  Of that group, the magazine’s ad hoc survey said about … Read more