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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, …

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Acer Aims to Improve EMEA Position

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

Nanoco Appoints Interim CFO

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Nanoco Group has named Mark Sullivan as interim CFO while the company’s current CFO, Colin White, takes a leave of absence for personal reasons.

iPad Delayed by iPhone Demand

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The iPad Pro, a rumoured 12.9″ device that was reported on last year (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 31) and appeared again recently on Bloomberg (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34), will be delayed …

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Access Essential Gaming Functions on Asus’ G751

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Asus’ new gaming laptop, the 17.3″ ROG G751, is part of the Republic of Gamers line. Programmable macro and quick-launch (for Steam, games and other commonly-used features) keys on the (backlit) keyboard help gamers …

Evonik and Holst Centre Commercialise Soluble TFTs

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Evonik and the Holst Centre have been working on a new semiconductor technology called iXsenic S for the last two years. The soluble Oxide-TFT material is now being used in mass production by ‘a …

Samsung to Market 60GHz Wireless in 2015

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Samsung has said that it will commercalise 60GHz wireless products next year. Data transmission speeds are as much as five times faster than today’s Wi-Fi (4.6Gbps). A 1GB film can be transferred in ‘less …

Blackberry Returns to Classic Form Factor

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A leaked image, apparently of the Blackberry Classic smartphone, shows a return to the company’s traditional physical keyboard form factor. Image source N4BB claims that the phone will have a 3.5″ LCD screen; 720 …

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