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Microsoft wasted no time recently in countering a claim by Taiwan’s Digitimes that the company was ‘likely to terminate the [Surface] product line’. A blog post by Surface general manager Brian Hall (http://tinyurl.com/kc7fxr9) showed that there will be at least one more generation of Surface products. Hall stated that the Surface Pro 3 Type Covers, … Read more
Back in 2010, Microsoft started bringing legal action against Android stakeholders, which resulted in various licensing deals. The company refused to announce what was being licensed to the stakeholders – 25 of them, including Foxconn, HTC, ZTE and Samsung. The stakeholders themselves were also blocked from revealing any details, due to a legal agreement. Last … Read more
Last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37), Sharp announced that it would begin mass-production of its MEMS-IGZO displays (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 22) in 2017. Much earlier than this date, however, the company has now said that it will launch a tablet using the technology in Japan, in the first half of next … Read more
Worldwide branded tablet shipments are set to remain below 200 million this year, with growth at a ‘disappointing’ 2.5% YoY, says ABI Research. Apple and Samsung led the market in the first six months of 2014 (representing a combined 70% of all shipments). Shipments of the iPad were down 13% YoY, although Samsung’s tablets rose … Read more
Wearables were big news this year at Ceatec, which took place in Japan earlier this month. The show is always an interesting one, to see what we can expect from Japan in the coming month. Epson demonstrated its Moverio smartglasses. The Pulsense fitness tracker, introduced at IFA, was also on show. Sharp showed off a … Read more
A very interesting article has been posted by Warranty Week, about the market for product protection plans (aka extended warranties) in the USA. Despite the urgings of so-called watchdogs, the adoption of these insurance packages for smartphones is growing at a tremendous rate. Warranty Week expects the protection plan market in the USA to be … Read more
When we talk about wearables we think about all kinds of devices and foremost of all, the cool things we will be able to do once the gadgets are cheap enough to reach the masses. If you work in the CE field, you may also think about what this new market could mean for you. … Read more
The PF451CL is a 4.5″ addition to Asus’ Padfone line-up – a range of smartphones that can dock into a larger chassis to power a tablet. In the case of the PF451CL (aka Padfone Mini), the tablet is 7″. Both smartphone (854 x 480) and tablet (1280 x 800) displays use IPS panels and are … Read more
Asus’ new gaming laptop, the 17.3″ ROG G751, is part of the Republic of Gamers line. Programmable macro and quick-launch (for Steam, games and other commonly-used features) keys on the (backlit) keyboard help gamers control the action, and a new ‘ROG Key’, on the numpad, launches the Gaming Centre dashboard. Asus’ Gaming Centre shows system … Read more
Asus’ latest Transformer Book hybrid tablet, the T200, features user-upgradable storage in the keyboard dock. Owners can undo a panel on the base of the device to add a 1TB HDD, in addition to the 32GB eMMC/64GB eMMC/32GB with 500GB HDD options that are available as standard. Miracast enables content to be sent wirelessly to … Read more
The HP Stream 7 and Stream 8 are new 7″ and 8″ tablet PCs with full cloud connectivity. While local storage is minimal (32GB, expandable with micro-SD), each has access to 1TB of Microsoft OneDrive and Office 365 Personal for a year Lack of WiFi is no problem, says HP, as the Stream 8 is … Read more
While smartphones’ front-facing cameras have often been outclassed by those on the rear, recent months have seen a change in this trend. The latest smartphone to pack a powerful front camera is the HTC Desire Eye, a 5.2″ model with 13MP cameras on both sides. Despite the matched resolution, the cameras are not identical. The … Read more
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