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by Bob Raikes
Taiwan sources have said that the next 5.8″ iPhone will use a glass chassis with a stainless steel frame, while the 4.7″ will use an aluminium chassis. The decision on the 5.5″ is yet …
Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 06
by Alan Spencer
Apple has joined the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). Industry sources have suggested that a possible reason is that Apple is planning to use wireless charging in its next generation iPhone. Based on a survey …
Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 06| Wireless Charging
by Alan Spencer
Apple has hired Timothy D. Twerdhal, the former head of Amazon’s Fire TV unit since 2013. His role will be VP in charge of Apple TV product marketing. The change has possibly been brought …
Tags:Amazon| Apple| Large Display Monitor| People| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
The streaming service Epix is now available on Apple TV4 and comes with a limited free trial for subscribers. Movies including ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘James Bond’ and ‘Star Trek’ are available via the app. …
Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
An Indian government official has told a news agency that Wistron will start manufacturing for Apple in Karnataka by the end of April 2017. Apple has yet to officially confirm the plan. Karnataka is …
Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Capacity| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Isaac Oburu
Price remains a key sticking point for consumers to adopt powerful new 2-in-1 Tablet devices, such as the iPad Pro or Surface Pro 4, leaving more room for cheaper alternatives from smaller vendors like …
Tags:Apple| Samsung| tablets
by Bob Raikes
According to preliminary data from IDC, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 428.5 million units during Q4 2016, resulting in 6.9% growth when compared to the 400.7 million units shipped in Q4 2015. For …
Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Jasmine Kang Sodha
Apple Inc. announced its FY17 Q1 results with consolidated sales of $78.3 bn and net income of $17.9 bn, resulting in a net profit margin of 23%. The operating income for the quarter was …
Tags:Apple| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
Apple’s iPhone 7 is only officially classified as surviving immersion at a depth of one metre (3.3 feet) for 30 minutes. However, an incident occured during an ice fishing trip in Russia that showed …
Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 04| Waterproof Displays
by Alan Spencer
In some case. the new LG Ultrafine 5K Displays that LG launched to go with the new Apple Mac Book Pro (More News of LG’s Macbook Monitors) appear to be affected by interference caused …
Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04| Wi-Fi
by Alan Spencer
In the future, watching UltraHD on YouTube will require support for Google’s VP9 codec, which Apple has so far not supported. For a decade, content providers have used MPEG4 (and its sub-classes such as …
Tags:Apple| Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Vol 24 - Issue 04| VP9| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
Apple has filed a suit against Qualcomm that claims that the firm’s policy of charging royalties based on the value of the item being sold is unfair. Apple believes that this penalises its own …
Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 03
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