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2016 GSMA Mobile World Congress Surpasses Record 100,000 Visitors

by Isaac Oburu

Visitors to the 2016 edition of the Mobile World Congress surpassed the 100,000 mark for the first time in the event’s history, with nearly 101,000 attendees, the GSMA reported today, an increase of more …

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SunPartner Boosts Mobile Power Using Solar

by Bob Raikes

SunPartner Technologies has developed a technology that it calls “Wysips” that consists of a transparent solar cell technology, together with the related optical stack and semiconductor know how. The company sees applications in “smart …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Solar Panels| Vol 23 - Issue 08| Wearables

Fujitsu Brings Palm Secure to Tablets

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu was at the show to demonstrate its strength in big systems (big data, IoT and servers) as well as its client devices. The company has previously explained to us the benefits of its …

Harman Wants to Keep Cars Up to Date

by Bob Raikes

Harman has gradually been intruding on our consciousness over the last few months and at MWC the company was showing some interesting automotive applications. The company has developed audio systems for cars and other …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 08

MWC Hits Six Figures

by Tom Allen

The organisers of Mobile World Congress, MWC, said that it saw 101,000 attendees this year, the first time the number has got into six digits and 6% up on 2015. Visitors were from 204 …

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Tianma Plans Flexible OLEDs

by Milos Pavlovic

We went along to see Tianma which was showing its first flexible OLED sample (pictured), a 5.46″ diagonal display with 720 x 1280 resolution (270ppi) and curvable at radiuses of 20mm. The company told …

MWC Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

France’s Archos was showing two new smartphones: the Diamond 2+ and Diamond 2 Note. The former has a 5.5″ (1920 x 1080) display, while the latter is 6″ (2560 x 1440). The 2+ has …

Plenty to See at MobileFocus

by Bob Raikes

On the evening before the main exhibition start, Pepcom held its MobileFocus event. The big attraction for the press that evening in Barcelona was the Samsung press event and that meant a relatively low …

Lenovo™ Launches New Travel-ready Windows® 10 Tablet and YOGA™ Laptops

by Isaac Oburu

Lenovo introduced two new consumer Windows 10 PCs: YOGA 710 and 5101 convertible laptops and the ideapad MIIX 310 2-in-1 detachable tablet. We recognize consumers’ need to work on multiple devices for different tasks. …

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Showstoppers Reveals Projection Tablet and Phones

by Bob Raikes

On the Sunday before the official start of the MWC show, Showstoppers held its annual “meet the vendors” event and we went along. We didn’t think that there were as many companies of interest …

Xiaomi Takes to Global Stage

by Tom Allen

Xiaomi has a reputation as ‘The Apple of the East’, but its prices are far below the Cupertino-based company. Although it had no stand at the show, the firm used MWC to launch its …

MediaTek Shows Scaling and Colour

by Milos Pavlovic

MediaTek was highlighting features of its X20 processor as well as announcing a new P20 chip at Mobile World. The first demonstration that we looked at was showing the X20 in an image scaling …

Tags:Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| MWC 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 08