Amazon Chooses Mediatek for Fire HD
Amazon’s new Fire HD tablets use Mediatek processors, it has been announced. The Fire HD 6, Fire HD 7 and Fire HD Kids Edition (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37) use the MT8135 SoC and MT6628 connectivity chip.
Money to Burn? Consider Vertu’s Bentley Phone
Luxury phone brand Vertu has partnered with car manufacturer Bentley to produce a new – and expensive – smartphone. For slightly less than the deposit on a small house (
Emagin Receives $6.8 Million in R&D Contracts
Emagin says it has been awarded three new R&D contracts totalling $6.8 million. One of the three new contracts is a $1.1 million contract over 15 months to further enhance the full colour brightness of its recently demonstrated ultra-high-brightness microdisplay products. Details regarding the other two contracts will be released at a future date. Andrew … Read more
iPhone 6 Boosts ODM’s Revenues
Foxconn Electronics and Pegatron both reported large increases in sales for September, rising 51% and 63% respectively from August, primarily due to shipments of Apple’s new iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. Foxconn’s sales of NT$415.4 billion ($13.6 billion) was 23% higher year on year and brought sales for the third quarter to NT$950.5 … Read more
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
