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StarVR More Than Doubles Oculus FoV

by Tom Allen

Starbreeze Studios, a Swedish games studio, has decided to cut out the middle man and develop its own VR headset, under the name ‘StarVR’. Introduced at E3, the headset offers an extremely wide field …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

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

Pegatron Predicts Record Turnover in 2015

by Helen Vince

Pegatron says it expects to achieve record turnover this year, following last year’s NT$1.02 trillion ($32.6 billion), thanks to the company’s strategy of widening its portfolios of communication, IT and consumer electronics products. The …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

TPK Expects Q3 Upturn

by Helen Vince

TPK says it expects sales in Q3 to rebound 30% sequentially, thanks to demand for wearables, curved displays and fingerprint detection modules. In Q2, TPK’s sales are expected to decline anywhere between 15% and …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TPK| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Sony Blames Qualcomm for Flagship Overheating

by Tom Allen

Following tests by Dutch website GSMinfo, Sony has admitted that its Z3+ smartphone (Xperia Z4 in Japan) is suffering from overheating issues. The company has blamed Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chip for the problem. Sony …

“4k is so Early 2015″…

by Tom Allen

YouTube has posted its first 8k video. Ghost Towns (http://tinyurl.com/oxzja3k) follows a woman exploring an abandoned village. It was shot in portrait mode on a Red Epic Dragon 6k camera, and stitched to create …

Taiwan Makers Look to VR Market

by Tom Allen

Himax worked with Google on Google GlassWe hear that Himax and Etron Technology are looking to enter the virtual reality market. According to Asian sources, Etron has been working with customers to develop 3D-sensing …

Nokia’s Unfinished Smartwatch Hits Tumblr

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeA Nokia smartwatch, which was axed by Microsoft after the company’s takeover, has been revealed. Known as ‘Moonraker’, the unreleased smartwatch was said to be close to launch when Microsoft scrapped it. …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 25

by Tom Allen

A very thin smartphone has been launched in China. The Coolpad IVVI is 4.9mm thick and uses a 5″ AMOLED display (1920 x 1080). Running Android 4.4.4 on a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor, the …

Samsung Raises Internal Reliance, Lowers External Orders

by Tom Allen

According to rumours, Samsung will lower its panel order value to other companies even further in 2015. The company has been reducing orders for several years, increasingly relying on internally-made components. Rumours say that …

Tags:LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 25

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

Guangzhou NV Achieves 0.01mm AMOLED Thickness

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeGuangzhou New Vision, of China, has unveiled a 0.01mm-thick prototype flexible AMOLED panel. The unit uses a polyimide substrate, oxide-TFT backplane and RGB front plane. Curvature radius is 4.5mm. A video of …