Japan Display Warns of Surprise Loss
Japan Display (JDI) has issued a revised forecast for this year and said it now expects to record a net loss of
Lenovo to Set-Up Online Phone Firm in China
Lenovo says it will establish a dedicated mobile phone company in China to sell its devices online. The new company, which will not carry the Lenovo brand or name, will become operational on 1st April 2015 and is being set up to help Lenovo attack the fast growing consumer mobile device market in China. Lenovo … Read more
Qualcomm to Buy CSR for $2.5 Billion
Qualcomm announced this week that it has reached agreement with CSR to acquire the UK firm for a cash consideration of approximately $2.5 billion. Qualcomm said that the acquisition complements its current offerings by adding products, channels and customers in the important growth categories of Internet of Everything (IoE) and automotive infotainment. CSR, formerly known … Read more
Mediatek’s Platform Speeds Time-to-Market
Mediatek’s new smartphone platform, the MT6735, is a 64-bit device designed to speed products’ time-to-market. The MT6735 Mainstream Worldmode Smartphone Platform, to give it its full name, aims at ‘mid-range’ price points. It incorporates four 1.5GHz quad-core processors Cortex-A53 ARM processors (64-bit) amd am ARM Mali-T720 GPU. A 4G modem – supporting all global LTE … Read more
AIV-BEX Hits Delays
In 2012, AIV-BEX (then known as Stimulated Blue) began an OLED project called ‘blue-coating’ (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 31), to produce small panels. This time last year we heard that the company was working with CPT to construct a G4.5 AMOLED fab (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 41); earlier this year, the entire project … Read more
HTC Smartphone Production Moves Out-of-House
HTC will outsource part of its smartphone production to contract manufacturers, CEO Peter Chou has said.
Samsung Looks to China for AMOLED Adoption
Samsung Display will supply OLED panels to Chinese smartphone brands, according to local media. Both Huawei and Oppo are said to be talking to Samsung about the technology.
960 x 540 is New Nokia Resolution
A dual-SIM Windows Phone smartphone from Nokia has passed through the USA’s FCC. The ‘RM-1090’ (or possibly RM-1091) is roughly the size of the Lumia 830, with a 5″ display and 960 x 540 resolution. Display Daily Comments We understand this to be a new resolution for Nokia smartphones, which in the past have had … Read more
Blackberry Returns to Classic Form Factor
A leaked image, apparently of the Blackberry Classic smartphone, shows a return to the company’s traditional physical keyboard form factor. Image source N4BB claims that the phone will have a 3.5″ LCD screen; 720 x 720 resolution; a 1.5GHz dual-core processor; Adreno S4 Pro GPU; 2GB of RAM; and 16GB of storage. The Classic will … Read more
Openwave Claims Further Optimisation of HEVC
Openwave Mobility, based in California, has announced a new technology designed to ease UltraHD video transmission over mobile networks. ‘Dynamo’ apparently works with all types of transmissions but is optimised for HEVC video. Openwave claims that it can provide up to a five-times increase in efficiency. Dynamo can also record and recode older videos into … Read more
Microsoft Bypasses Text-Entry Problems
Microsoft Research is trying to get round the problem of text entry on the tiny touchscreens found on smartwatches. It described the problem by explaining that, on a 1.6″ screen, a keyboard with 10 keys would have buttons less than 3mm wide. Because of this, a prototype ‘keyboard’ app (Analog Keyboard) has been developed that … Read more
Gartner: 90% of Mobiles Will be Smartphones by 2018
Tablet growth has slowed enough this year that these products will represent 9.5% of all devices worldwide. Consumers are looking at alternative devices like hybrids and phablets, as well as holding on to their existing tablets for longer. According to Gartner, tablet sales will reach 229 million units globally in 2014: a 11% YoY increase. … Read more
