Mobile Display Monitor – Page 954

Motorola Makes Big Battery Claims With Droid Turbo

by Super User

A new smartphone has been added to Motorola’s line of premium Droid-brand smartphones. The Droid Turbo will be available exclusively through Verizon in the USA, with a major selling point in its battery life. …

VTech Adds Rechargeable Batteries to 4th-Gen Products

by Super User

Children’s tablet developer VTech has introduced two new products, with rechargeable batteries and more than 800 apps in the ‘Learning Lodge’ store. The Innotab 3 Plus (4.3″, $60) and 3S Plus (5″, $80) are …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Lenovo Gets Tiny

by Super User

Lenovo was a bit frustrated at the show. The company had held a press event on the Thursday, but because of the Intel keynote on Friday, could not announce that new systems used the …

Microsoft Makes Wireless Charging ‘Affordable’

by Super User

Microsoft’s newest Nokia smartphones, running Windows Phone 8.1, are the Lumia 830, Lumia 735 and Lumia 730 Dual SIM, all of which are described as affordable. The flagship Lumia 830 features wireless charging and …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Windows

125 Years of Nintendo

by Super User

Nintendo has celebrated its 125th anniversary. From humble beginnings creating ‘Hanafuda’ playing cards in Kyoto in 1889, the company took 70 years to introduce the videogames that it is known for today. Arcade machines …

Mantis Vision Designs for 3D Content Creation

by Super User

Israel’s Mantis Vision has worked with Flextronics to develop a tablet specifically designed to create content in 3D: the Aquila. The 8″ tablet uses Mantis Vision’s MV4D core 3D engine and camera control SDK. …

Blackberry Porsche Design Raises Premium Partner Flag

by Super User

Meet Blackberry’s answer to the Note 4 and iPhone 6: the Porsche Design P’9983. Boasting a glass-weave rear, ‘glass-like’ keys on the keyboard, a sapphire lens on the rear camera and the Porsche logo, …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Acer Aims to Improve EMEA Position

by Super User

Acer’s EMEA president, Luca Rossi, says that the company is determined to improve its position in the European market and to maintain healthy profitability but will not pursue “desperate market share acquisition strategy” to …

Panasonic’s 14″ Toughbook is Lightest Yet

by Super User

Panasonic says that its new Toughbook CF-LX3 is the lightest 14″ notebook available on the market today. Weighing 1.26kg, the product will run on battery for up to 14 hours. The battery will recharge …

Note 4 Owners Discover Screen Gap

by Super User

After rushing to take advantage of Apple’s bending iPhones (http://tinyurl.com/qjdvdjy), the last thing that Samsung wanted was its own manufacturing defect. Even Samsung can’t get everything its own way, however. According to Korea’s IT …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Recalls & Problems| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Vivo…Until Gionee Revamped its Own Product

by Super User

China’s Gionee has gone and outdone itself, beating its previous S5.5 smartphone (holding the record for the world’s thinnest model) with the 5.1mm-thick ELife S5.1 (thinner than my mousemat! – TA). Like the S5.5, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

ARM Hopes to Speed IoT Device Creation

by Super User

A new tool, specifically for Internet of Things devices, has been developed by ARM. The ‘Mbed IoT Device Platform’ is an open-standards operating system. ARM says that it combines ‘internet protocols, security and standards-based …