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Smartphone Booms as Watch Woes Continue for Apple

by Steve Sechrist

The WSJ (Wall Street Journal) today reported Apple is getting the lion’s share (a whopping 92%) of all profits in the booming smartphone industry. The chart on the right shows global operating profits in …

Slice Analysis Calls Apple Watch ‘A Failure’

by Tom Allen

The Apple Watch is a ‘failure’ according to research firm Slice Analysis. The company claims that sales have fallen 90% since April, from 200,000 a day to 20,000 a day (we’d still say that’s …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Photographer Snaps Apple Watch Close-Up

by Tom Allen

Scientist and photographer Bryan Jones has put the Apple Watch’s display under the microscope. Of course, the sub-pixel arrangement looks very different to that of the LCD-based iPhone; the blue sub-pixels are much larger …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| pixels| Vol 22 - Issue 28

New Samsung Modules Cause Apple to Look Again

by Tom Allen

Korea’s Digital Daily claims that Apple is considering a deal with Samsung, as a potential supplier for the Apple Watch’s OLED display. This counters earlier rumours, which said that Apple would retain LG as …

Tags:AMOLED| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Apple Watch Has ‘Excellent’ Display

by Tom Allen

Ray Soneira, president of DisplayMate, has put the Apple Watch through a series of tests in the company’s latest Display Technology Shoot-Out. His conclusion is that it is an excellent, artefact-free smartwatch display. The …

New Apple Watch Makers Unlikely

by Tom Allen

Supply chain sources say that Apple Watch yield rates are rising, so significant shipment growth is expected in the second half of the year. The sources also said that it is unlikely that vendors …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Quanta| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Apple Watch Display Reflectance Unveiled

by Steve Sechrist

Once again, in the pursuit of “state-of-the-art” displays, we are getting a peek with the DisplayMate Labs microscope into an Apple Watch display shoot-out. This time, founder Dr. Raymond Soneira, announced an in-depth review …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Colour (Color)| Sapphire| Shoot Outs| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Second Apple Watch to House Video Camera

by Tom Allen

‘Sources familiar with the matter’ have said that Apple Watch 2 will be launched in 2016, with a video camera supporting Face Time. Rumours also say that Apple will integrate a new chipset that …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 26

YouTuber Goes to Extreme Lengths for Views

by Tom Allen

A YouTuber known as TechRax is garnering views (and media attention) with his latest stunt, which may be one of the most expensive private videos to ever hit the site. TechRax’s channel mostly focuses …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25| YouTube

Wearables Waiting for the Advent of Soft Electronics

by Steve Sechrist

The Apple Watch is now shipping with predictions it will bust all records for the nascent wearable category, with the lift coming primarily from the fan-boy base (OK, girls too) that believes Apple can …

Rumour: Apple Scraps Multi-Vendor Strategy

by Tom Allen

MK News, of Korea, claims that LG Display could become the exclusive display supplier of the second-generation Apple Watch. Sources told MK News that Apple will (or has) discarded its multi-vendor supplier strategy for …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 25

A Smartwatch Developer’s View on Wearables (WF7)

by Phillip Wright

The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week featured a presentation by Andrew Witte, Founder and CTO, Pebble Technology. The Pebble smartwatch (pictured below) initially funded through crowd funding …