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Global smartphone shipments dropped by 16.8 percent in the first quarter as vendors struggled to manage coronavirus-driven production shutdowns, product-launch delays and depressed consumer demand. Shipments in the first quarter fell to 274.4 million units, down from 329.9 million during the same period in 2019, according to the Omdia Smartphone Intelligence Service. This plunge impacted … Read more
Worldwide smartphone shipments decreased 11.7% year over year in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In total, companies shipped 275.8 million smartphones during 1Q20. Although the first quarter usually experiences a sequential (quarter over quarter) decline in shipments, with the … Read more
Canon held a virtual press conference to disclose what they would have shown at NAB had it gone forward as usual. While much of the event focused on professional camera updates, I will focus on three items more of interest to Display Daily readers, as the headline suggests. In professional monitors, no new products were … Read more
The second floor of 1 Queens Square, Ascot Business Park, which is owned by specialist monitor manufacturer, Eizo Limited, has been transformed into a temporary sewing workshop. Starting its production today, the workshop is able to accommodate up to 25 staff (socially distanced spaced to at least three metres apart) whose sole focus will be … Read more
MMD, the leading display specialist and brand license partner for Philips monitors, announces the 24” (23.8″ / 60.5 cm) Philips 245B1 LCD monitor. This new model features Quad HD resolution (2560 x 1440), a PowerSensor to save up to 70% energy costs and HDMI connectivity. Its rich variety of features and technologies is designed from … Read more
Feel-good stories (like customer engagement and titillating use cases) for immersive XR applications are what we always seem to hear about these days. In a previous article, Chasing Stories in Enterprise XR and Beyond, we asked a crucial question about selling or promoting XR: “Which is better—showing the data or telling powerful stories?” Reporting on … Read more
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global 5G smartphone shipments surged past 24 million units in Q1 2020. Demand from China was higher than expected. en Hyers, Director at Strategy Analytics said “Global 5G smartphone shipments grew to 24.1 million in Q1 2020, significantly more than all 5G smartphones shipped in the full … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has released version 2.0 of the DisplayPort™ Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) standard. DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 provides seamless interoperability with the new USB4™ specification published by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), and fully enables all of the features in the latest version of the DisplayPort standard … Read more
Samsung Electronics reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020. Total revenue was KRW 55.33 trillion, a decrease of 7.6% from the previous quarter mainly due to weak seasonality for the Company’s display business and Consumer Electronics Division and partially due to effects of COVID-19. From a year earlier, revenue rose 5.6% … Read more
While mainstream sports face a hiatus of unknown length, esports competition has been able to move online and is seeing an uptake in viewership as a result, a burden for networks but a potential boom for advertising. by Dom Tait – Principal consultant for Omdia Both sports and esports have seen their live events shuttered … Read more
Following the arrival of the initial wave of foldable smartphones in 2019, the global market for foldable active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display panels is set for explosive growth in 2020, with shipments soaring by 455 percent this year. Worldwide foldable AMOLED display shipments will rise to 3.9 million units in 2020, up from 700,000 … Read more
It seems like everyone knows of someone who has lost their job, faced the doubts of possibly being seropositive, been infected, or died during the recent Covid-19 pandemic crisis. I know I do. There are and will be many stories to tell when this is all over. Sometimes the smallest of instances can help fill … Read more
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