MWC 2018 – Display Daily

MWC RoundUp Part 2

by Bob Raikes

Mantis Vision was showing a professional system for facial scanning that creates high quality avatars or images for use in access control systems. The images took a couple of minutes to produce, but were …

MWC 2018 Roundup Part 1

by Bob Raikes

Abenecel was at the 4YFN event and is based in Korea. The company is a technology licensing company that has a patented compression pre-processing system that can be used for graphics files and can …

Haier Projects a Positive Image

by Bob Raikes

Haier was showing its smartphones, of course, but the first product that caught our eye was a projector that is designed to shine onto a surface and supports touch on that surface. The unit …

DisplayLink Still Upbeat

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink continued its positive development and, as at CES, it had a much bigger booth at MWC this year, where it had the same demos that it showed in Las Vegas, including the wireless …

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Nubia Aims at Gamers

by Bob Raikes

Nubia Smartphone was showing a new prototype phone for gaming use. The phone uses a 6″ FullHD+ 18:9 display and is based on a Snapdragon 645 processor with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of …

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Broomx Finds Applications for Entry-Level Caves

by Bob Raikes

One of the few booths at MWC that was about large displays, was Broomx, who we reported on last year, who had a small booth in the 4YFN area and a small demo room …

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Asus Has Big Launch for ZenFone 5

by Bob Raikes

In the last couple of years, Asus has had less of a presence at MWC than in previous years. However, this year it came back with a ‘bang’, hosting an event in Barcelona on …

VESA Positive on DisplayPort Developments

by Bob Raikes

We met with VESA only a couple of months ago at CES, so there was not a huge amount of news, but there were plenty of discussions! The new version of DisplayStream Compression is …

HTC’s Emphasis is on Vive Products

by Bob Raikes

HTC’s booth was mainly devoted to the various Vive products although there were also still some smartphones. That reduction in emphasis on smartphones is not surprising as the company has moved most of its …

Lenovo Promotes Moto Mods & New Yogas

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo was promoting its consumer PCs and also, of course, the Motorola range. As we covered Lenovo quite a lot at CES, we focused mainly on the phones at MWC. Lots of the time …

Elliptic Labs Extends its Technology

by Bob Raikes

We’re stretching our remit a little by reporting on Elliptic Labs, as its ultrasound-based detection system is not a display. However, it might have implications for displays. The technology is able to use the …

Hisense Adds Dual Display Option

by Bob Raikes

Hisense had a number of new smartphones at the show, but the one that caught our attention was the A2 Pro which is available now in Asia and is expected to be around €349 …