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The Taipei Times reports that in a recent interview with John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, he said that supplies of the new Passport smartphone have sold out, demonstrating the phone’s popularity. According to the article, BlackBerry sold 200,000 units within six hours of its release. It also states that BlackBerry sold 13.7 million units in … Read more
Samsung is celebrating a win in the USA, as its devices have been cleared for use in handling classified information by government officials. Nine devices with the company’s Knox security software – including the Galaxy S4, Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4 – have been validated by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National … Read more
To boost tablet shipments in saturated markets, vendors are developing models for specific applications, say Taiwan-based IC design houses. Tablets designed for use in education, business and gaming applications – with low costs, large displays and high graphics capabilities – are being developed, the sources said.
French company Archos is to release a low-cost competitor to Samsung’s Gear VR (and, we guess, Google Cardboard), with the Archos VR Glasses. Like the Samsung and Google offerings, Archos’ ‘headset’ is more like a frame that a smartphone can be strapped in to. Unlike the others, though, it is device-agnostic, accepting any phone (up … Read more
Garmin has introduced a new fitness tracker and notification display called the Vivosmart. It is a wrist-worn device with a 1.4″ curved passive OLED from Futaba, with 128 x 16 resolution (the same as Huawei’s Talkband B1 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25)). Linking to an iOS or Android smartphone via Bluetooth LE, the band … Read more
A prototype of a smartwatch with an E Ink display has been shown at the HKTDC show in Hong Kong. Onyx International, an eReader maker, is building the device. The smartwatch features a 1.56″ display, can link to a phone using Bluetooth, acts as a pedometer and has three physical buttons. It is also waterproof. … Read more
Tinyduino is an open-source wearables development platform, based on Arduino, which will soon be offering a 0.9″ OLED microdisplay to its developer community. The ‘Tinyscreen’ component will feature 16-bit colour, 96 x 64 resolution and a controllable backlight option. The component will cost $25 and be shipped in January.
Augmented Reality – Vuzix has been very busy creating an infrastructure for its M100 augmented reality glasses. SAP, as one of Vuzix’s business partners, is releasing two apps that address the industrial and commercial use of the M100 headset. One of the applications is the SAP AR Warehouse Picker, an application that allows warehouse workers … Read more
Will.i.am told the world that he was going to release a smartwatch earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 15), and here is the finished result. The singer calls his new product, the Puls, a ‘cuff’ rather than a watch (although it does have a display). It runs Android Wear on a Qualcomm Snapdragon … Read more
Grand View Research, a San Francisco based market research company, has released a market forecast for head mounted displays (HMD). According to its forecast, the market will grow from $450.5 million in 2012 to $11.8 billion by 2020. The following chart shows the expected market development, indicating sales of roughly $1 billion in 2014. The … Read more
Kyocera has shown new automotive TFT-LCD displays at the 2014 Vehicle Display Symposium in the USA. Ranging from 1.8″ to 8″, the units include features such as wide viewing angles and extreme operating temperatures. A 1.8″ display for heads-up display applications uses LTPS technology, reaching 480 x 240 resolution in a small form factor. Viewing … Read more
Forbes claims that Microsoft is preparing to launch a smartwatch, which could be available ‘within the next few weeks’. Sources close to the project have told Forbes that the watch will track heartrate and work across mobile platforms. Battery life will be more than two days. Forbes published an article in May (Display Monitor Vol … Read more
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