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HP Working on Mirror Displays

by Bob Raikes

HP Enterprise had a big booth, but HP Inc had a more muted presence, attending Showstoppers and the Pepcom event. There was also a group in the new technology area of the show and …

Tags:HP Inc| Mirror Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08

HP Working on Mirror Displays

by Bob Raikes

HP Enterprise had a big booth, but HP Inc had a more muted presence, attending Showstoppers and the Pepcom event. There was also a group in the new technology area of the show and …

Tags:HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Korea Telecom has Impressive 360 Deg VR Baseball

by Bob Raikes

Korea Telecom had an extreme VR set-up. Image:Meko Korea Telecom (SK Telecom) had this Virtual Reality ‘experience’ which was provoking very strong responses from participants! The system rotated around and bumped while the users …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Tianma Shows Flex & VR Panels

by Bob Raikes

Tianma had a meeting room to show its latest display products. The company does attend a number of the major trade shows (SID/Electronica/CES/MWC at least) to meet with clients. Tianma’s flex oled with touch …

Tags:In-cell| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Small & Medium Displays| Tianma| Vol 24 - Issue 08

TCL Promotes Alcatel and Blackberry Brands

by Bob Raikes

TCL divided up its stand between the Alcatel products and the BlackBerry area. We started by looking at the Alcatel area and the first new product was the Idol 4 Pro. However, a bit …

Tags:BlackBerry| Convertible PCs| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Smartphones| TCL| Vol 24 - Issue 08

DisplayLink Extends Wireless to VR

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink was close to the HTC Vive booth and was getting a lot of attention for its reference design which uses the firm’s implementation of Wireless VR which uses the 60GHz radio band and …

Tags:DisplayLink| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Samsung Finds Some Products to Launch

by Bob Raikes

Samsung held its annual MWC Press Conference to a full house at the event. Normally, it uses the event to launch the next update for the Galaxy smartphones, but after the problems with the …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 5G| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Samsung| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Dolby Demonstrates Dolby Vision Smartphone Performance

by Bob Raikes

Dolby was happy to be talking about the adoption by LG of the Dolby Vision technology and in its closed booth, it was demonstrating a standard LG phone compared to a Dolby Vision playback …

Tags:Dolby| Dolby Vision| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 08

MWC 2017 Round-up

by Bob Raikes

Picoprojector maker, Aiptek, has a new AM500VT projector that is a complete Android system that produces HD images of up to 120″ with output of 500 ANSI lumens. The projector is supplied with a …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| audio| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Display Stream (DSC)| Fingerprint Recognition| Gesture Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Pico Projectors| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08| WiGIG

Showstoppers is Busy – Blame the Beer!

by Bob Raikes

The first event that we got to at MWC was the Showstoppers event that took place in Central Barcelona. There were plenty of journalists, but not that many exhibitors. Amazing the reaction you can …

Tags:Convertible PCs| DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| VESA| Vol 24 - Issue 08

MWC Lively, but Not Much in Displays

by Bob Raikes

This week’s MWC was a bit of a disappointment from a display and handset point of view. It’s usually the place that Samsung launches its latest flagship smartphone, but the Note7 debacle meant extra …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Power Is Nothing Without Batteries

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this editorial on the plane on the way back from the MWC event in Barcelona. My tablet is having to be used with its ‘hunt and peck’ keyboard. Although I’m usually very …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08