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Rumour: Curved Screens Appear on Blackberry

by Tom Allen

Three Blackberry phones have been leaked on Chinese Weibo. The ‘Slider’ or ‘Venice’ is said to have a sliding keyboard, curved 5.1″ screen (2560 x 1440) and front-facing speaker. The phone will also have …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Blackberry May Close Sweden Office

by Helen Vince

Blackberry is reported to be considering plans to close its offices in Sweden, with the loss of 100 jobs. A spokesman was quoted as saying that it is consulting with the employees’ trade unions …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 22 - Issue 18

US Smartphone Shares Flat From 2014

by Tom Allen

In the three months ending in February 2015, smartphones had penetrated almost 77% of the US market, according to Comscore – up 5% on the September – November 2014 period. The result represented 186.3 …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 16

by Tom Allen

UK and US customers can now pre-order Apple‘s new 12″ Macbook (Apple Plugs TV, Adds a New MacBook and erm…. Shows Some Watches), which features a single USB-C port. The waiting time is drastically …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 14

by Tom Allen

Blackberry‘s Leap smartphone (Blackberry Shows new Smartphone and Prototype with Curved AMOLED Display) can now be pre-ordered in the UK, USA, France and Germany; residents of Canada have been told to ‘stay tuned’, so …

Blackberry Result 01/04/2015

by Helen Vince

Blackberry Limited has released its fourth quarter and full year results, posting a net profit in Q4 of $28 million on turnover of $660 million, which compares with a net loss in the final …

Tags:BlackBerry| Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Blackberry Shows new Smartphone and Prototype with Curved AMOLED Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

Blackberry released a new phone and showed a new smartphone prototype at MWC 2015, even though the company was not officially listed as an exhibitor. In a private event, the company showed that it …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Apple Passes Samsung to Take Smartphone Market Lead

by Tom Allen

Worldwide smartphone sales reached 367.5 million units in Q4’14, rising almost 30% YoY. Gartner’s data shows that Apple displaced Samsung as the market leader – a spot that the Korean company has held since …

Android 2014 Share Eclipses Total 2014 Smartphone Market

by Tom Allen

Android and iOS maintained their dominance of the worldwide smartphone market in Q4’14, says IDC, and in fact managed to improve their market share by double digits. These two operating systems represented 96.3% of …

Samsung has no Interest in Buying BlackBerry

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to The Wall Street Journal Samsung is not interested in buying BlackBerry at this point in time. J.K. Shin, Samsung’s mobile phone business leader said that Samsung is talking to BlackBerry to extend their …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Samsung Made Offer for Blackberry, Says Reuters

by Vanessa Browning

According to Reuters, Samsung is seeking to buy Blackberry to acquire the company’s patent portfolio. Blackberry was looking to sell in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 31). Several rumours of interested parties – …

CES 2015 Roundup

by Tom Allen

If a film-based privacy filter isn’t enough, 3M is offering its facial-recognition-based ePrivacy filter. (Graphic: 3M)In addition to the expected optical enhancement and privacy films being shown by 3M at its booth in South …