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China’s Gionee’s S5.1 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 39) didn’t hold on to its title of ‘world’s thinnest smartphone’ for long. Domestic rival Oppo has beaten the 5.1mm phone with its Oppo R5, which is 4.85mm thick. Of course, the thin (steel) body does have a trade-off. While many of the phone’s specifications are toward … Read more
Panasonic’s 7″ Toughpad range has been completed, with a new Android 4.4.4 model – the Toughpad FZ-B2 – joining existing Windows units. A fanless tablet, the Fz-B2 is IP65-compliant, meets the MIL-STD-810G standard and can be dropped from 1.5m. Operation is possible in -10 deg to 50 deg temperatures. With extended use in mind, Panasonic … Read more
Late last month a new line of entry- to mid-range Galaxy smartphones appeared online, called the Galaxy A series. We wrote about them, but Samsung put out an official release just before we went to press, so we held the story back until this week so that we could cover the phones in more detail. … Read more
Shanda, a Chinese manufacturer, has unveiled two smartwatches with battery life of up to a week. Using a hybrid screen, which switches between (transflective) LCD and E Ink modes, the Geak Watch 2 and Geak Watch 2 Pro support up to six or seven days of normal use, respectively. In standby mode, using only the … Read more
Microsoft Research has developed a transparent sensor surface for tablet PCs, called FlexSense. The work was performed in partnership with the Institute of Surface Technologies and Photonics of Joanneum Research and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. FlexSense is a flexible sensor foil connected to the tablet. It enables a direct reconstruction of complex … Read more
The story that caught my attention particularly this week is the report that Samsung is trying to sell Liquavista, the Philips spin-off that it bought in January 2011 (the story has been going around for some time, but activity seems to have stepped up). Liquavista, which became the Samsung Netherlands Research Centre) had a technology … Read more
The big story of last week was, without doubt, the planned Samsung investment in Sharp. The symbolism is more important than the substance. The deal indicates that Samsung wants to have an on-going relationship with its Japanese rival and that would have been very surprising in the past. However, the stark economics of the future … Read more
I wrote in Display Monitor recently about this time being the time for a change over from PCs being at the centre of our technology worlds and mobile devices dominating. This will be a continuing challenge for monitor makers, but the business won’t go away. Our unofficial company motto is “Don’t forget the people” and … Read more
Looking back on the year, the big trend has been the increasing dominance of the 2 x 2 matrix of Apple and Samsung, phones and tablets. If you don’t fit one of the four quadrants in that matrix and you’re in the electronics business, you probably didn’t have a great year. Even though tech giant … Read more
Both desktop monitors (DTMs) and TV forecasting have been fairly negative processes in recent quarters. In all three of the markets that we track, larger sized sets are growing in share, but in Public Displays, the rate of growth is higher than the fall in pricing that we expect, so the value of the market … Read more
Christian Thévot is the Business development manager, DLP pico, Texas Instruments. Christian manages TI’s DLP pico projection products in EMEA, working with companies using these technologies to promote them across the region. 1. What do you consider are the five most important market developments in the last five years?Over the past five years the world … Read more
Windows 8 was launched last week. The general reaction is the same as I highlighted when I saw the original Microsoft Surface announcement, that the O/S is a good one from the technical and stability point of view, but that it seems to be very confusing for the user. There seem to be four distinct … Read more
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