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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 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
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 will outsource part of its smartphone production to contract manufacturers, CEO Peter Chou has said.
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.
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
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 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 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
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
Details about Google’s Nexus 6 smartphone were heavily leaked before it was officially announced this month. Even in March (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9), rumours were appearing online. Now we can see that many of those rumours were true. Motorola produced the Nexus 6, Google having switched from Asus as its manufacturing partner. The … Read more
Vastly more on-cell TFT LCD touch panels were shipped in the first six months of 2014 than all of 2013. NPD DisplaySearch data shows that total shipments in Q1 and Q2’14 exceeded 20 million, while Q1-Q4’13 reached just 4.7 million. The massive growth is due to the technology’s adoption in the entry- and mid-level smartphone … Read more
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