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Freetel Smartphone Supplier Files for Bankruptcy Protection

by Andrew Fenn

Plus One Marketing, the supplier of handsets for Japan’s Freetel low-cost smartphone service, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, leaving liabilities of about ¥2.6 billion ($22.9 million). The company, established by ex-Dell smartphone pioneer …

Tags:Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Aska3D Goes for Plastic

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the Aska3D technology from Asukanet of Japan at the Retail DSE show and at Infocomm (Aska3D is not ‘Just Pepper’s Ghost’) and now the company has said that it has succeeded …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37

LDC Dates Set for 2018

by Bob Raikes

We heard recently that the LDC (Laser Display and Lighting Conference) will be held in Yokohama, Japan on 24th – 27th April 2018. The event took place in Germany in 2016, but was in …

JDI Ponders How to Enter OLED Business

by Bob Raikes

Nikkei reports that JDI (described as ‘limping’) JDI has asked Mizhuo Bank for loans totalling around ¥100 billion ($900 milliion) to help the company to deal with the challenges of the move from premium …

Tags:Apple| Japan| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 28

New Family of TADF Emitters Based on ESIPT

by Bob Raikes

Researchers at Kyushu University’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) demonstrated that a molecule that slightly changes its chemical structure before and after emission can achieve a high efficiency in OLEDs. “Many …

Preferred Bidder Chosen for Toshiba Memory

by Alan Spencer

Toshiba has announced that its board of directors has agreed to select the consortium of Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Bain Capital Private Equity and the Development Bank of Japan as the preferred bidder …

Samsung Galaxy Feel For Japan

by Bob Raikes

Samsung will launch a new Android smartphone in Japan with the Galaxy Feel name and provided through NTT Docomo. The phone is a mid-level device with a 4.7″ AMOLED display, with 3GB of RAM, …

Tags:Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 22

AGC Begins 3D Curved Cover Glass Mass Production

by Bob Raikes

Asahi Glas Corporation (AGC) said that it has started mass production of its 3D curved cover glass for car-mounted displays at its Keihin Plant in Japan and said that it is the first such …

Tags:Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Glass| Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Music score as a screen with digital notes

by Bob Raikes

The Terrada Music Score Co. Ltd. from Japan has launched the Gvido music score reader which uses two 13.3″ E Ink Carta displays to display music in PDF format. The display is fitted with …

Tags:E Ink| Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Apple Considering Stake in Toshiba’s Chip Business

by Alan Spencer

Japanese public broadcaster NHK, is reporting that Apple is considering a bid with its supplier Foxconn, for Toshiba’s semiconductor business. Toshiba is the world’s second-biggest flash memory chipmaker and last week, the company announced …

DSC Sales Dropped in 2016

by Bob Raikes

The digital camera market continues to decline rapidly and the Japan-based Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) said that in 2016, Japanese vendors shipped 24.19 million cameras, a drop of 31.7% from 2015. Consumer …

Tags:Cameras| Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Japan Tablet Shipments Experience Fall for the First Time

by Alan Spencer

While tablets shipments in Japan fell by 9.8% last year, Apple’s iPad still dominates the market. There were 8.51 million tablets shipped in Japan last year, which was a fall of 9.8% compared to …

Tags:Japan| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 13