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Now You Can Get Merge VR Goggles at Target Stores

by Isaac Oburu

Merge Virtual Reality announced today that its VR Goggles, which work with both Apple and Android smartphones, are now available at Target stores across the U.S. The mobile virtual reality headset retails for $79 …

Tags:Android| Apple| Mobile Phones| Virtual Reality

BC6 Highly Mobile PC Sales Still Growing

by Bob Raikes

Jason Hsu is from IHS and he looked at what is next in Mobile PC displays. In ‘the old days’, PC replacement was always about performance, with the PC running faster and faster each …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Oxide TFTs| SID Display Week 2016

China Raises Smartphone Share

by Tom Allen

Although smartphone sales rose in Q1’16, compared to the same period last year, the results were not all encouraging. Sales increased just 3.9% to 349 million units, and Apple registered its first double-digit decline. …

Tags:Apple| Gartner| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 20| Xiaomi

“Thin is in” at SID Awards

by Tom Allen

The Society for Information Display has named the winners of the 21st annual Display Industry Awards, which will be presented during SID Display Week this month. SID president Amal Ghosh noted that “‘thin’ is …

Tags:Apple| Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Awards| Back Panel| Corning| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Society| Vol 23 - Issue 19

OLED Display – Will it be able to Help Apple?

by Sweta Dash

Apple Corporation reported its first-ever decline in iPhone sales in its recent fiscal quarter (Apple’s 13-Year Growth Grinds to a Halt – subscription required). Its iPhone sales accounted for two third of company’s revenue …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 19

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Apple Will be World’s Top OLED Customer

by Tom Allen

UBI Research has predicted that Apple will become the world’s largest OLED customer. UBI president Lee Choong-hoon expects a new curved-screen iPhone to take a 30% iPhone market share in 2018, rising to 80% …

Tags:Apple| Display Supply & Demand| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Apple’s Face Off with China

by Steve Sechrist

In the great scheme of things, Apple was banking on the tried and true iPhone cash cow to dominate the world’s number two market for wireless devices, China. But things didn’t work out that …

Tags:Apple| China| iPhone| Market Data| Market Shares - Brands| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Apple Beats Microsoft in Detachables

by Tom Allen

The global tablet market fell almost 15% YoY in Q1’16. A combination of the traditional low first quarter and a lack of consumer interest conspired to bring shipments down to 39.6 million units, says …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Convertible PCs| Huawei| IDC| Lenovo| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 17

A New O-Leap for OLED

by Ken Werner

Information Display Magazine‘s Jay Morreale loves to repeat the old bromide, “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.” In that spirit, even an Apple rumor that has proved to be wrong for …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Samsung Will be Apple’s Sole OLED Supplier – At First

by Tom Allen

We have covered the ‘OLED iPhone’ rumour several times in recent months, and now Bloomberg is back with new claims about Samsung’s links to Apple. According to sources, Samsung will be the exclusive supplier …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Supply Chain| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Apple’s 13-Year Growth Grinds to a Halt

by Tom Allen

Apple reported Q2’16 net profit of $10.5 billion, down 23% YoY from $13.6 billion. Turnover was $50.6 billion, down 13% YoY from $58 billion. The company experienced the first ever decline in iPhone sales …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| iPhone| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 16

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Apple Cuts Production on Low Demand

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Nikkei newspaper says that Apple has cut iPhone production, due to weak sales of the flagship iPhone 6S/6S Plus and rising inventory levels. 6S production was apparently reduced by 30% in calendar Q1’16. …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 23 - Issue 15