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New Galaxy Dominates the Samsung Booth

by Bob Raikes

Our main news on the S9 and S9+ was the report from the Samsung press event (Samsung’s S9 Launch Emphasis is on Camera), but, of course, we went to the booth. There were the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09| Wireless Charging

MWC Not So Exciting for Displays

by Bob Raikes

Once again, MWC claimed a success with 107,000 attendees (including exhibitors, contractors and media) from 205 countries. The organisers said that 7,700 visitors were CEOs, up from 6,100 in 2017. There were 2,400 exhibiting …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09

LG Goes OLED but Drops Dolby Vision

by Milos Pavlovic

LG majored on its new V30SThinQ smartphone at the show. The phone looks very competent and LG said it had focused on ‘ABCD’ – the audio, battery, camera and display. The audio side uses …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 09

TCL Adds Mass Market 18:9 Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

TCL has both the Alcatel and Blackberry smartphone brands. At the show, the emphasis was on the Alcatel brand and there are there were three low end smartphone ranges introduced at the event, the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Smartphones| tablets| TCL| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Samsung’s S9 Launch Emphasis is on Camera

by Bob Raikes

Samsung held a big event in Barcelona to launch its Galaxy S9 and S9Plus. Even before the event, it was clear that the camera is one of the main changes as the title for …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09

MWC 2018 Catch Up

by Bob Raikes

After the really big shows there are always a few items that ‘slip through the net’ at the time we finalise our show report, so we like to catch up so that as little …

Tags:Codecs| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| OLEDs| Rugged Displays| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Jaunt Announces Immersive Content Partnership with NTT Data

by Andrew Fenn

Jaunt has announced a new partnership with NTT Data, to make the Jaunt XR Platform available to its portfolio of clients. The platform is a white-label software solution for the cross-platform distribution of VR, …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 07

Looking Forward to MWC

by Bob Raikes

This week has seen lots of market data, especially in MDM, as analysts frantically worked on Q4 data and the 2017 results. I was doing the same as we hurried to finalise the Q4 …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 06

NOA Bringing New Smartphone Range to MWC 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Hangar18, a company from Croatia, will present its latest line of NOA smartphones at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As well as existing models in the N series, the company will also …

Tags:Android| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 02