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Tablets Will Fall Due to Phablet Popularity

by Tom Allen

There were 18.3 million connected tablets in the USA at the end of 2014, says The NPD Group – up 90% YoY. More than 8.7 million new customers joined cellular tablet contracts last year, …

LG Prepares Note Rival

by Tom Allen

A Galaxy Note rival has been released by LG – but only for the Korean market, at present. A worldwide release is planned later in the year, but specific markets have not been announced. …

Tags:Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Huawei Goes Premium With Metal Body

by Tom Allen

After it was accidentally leaked last month (China’s MIIT Reveals Huawei Flagship), Huawei’s new Ascend P8 flagship smartphone has been revealed at an event in London. As the MIIT announced, the phone has a …

Huawei’s Smartwatch was Biggest Attraction on its Stand

by Norbert Hildebrand

A new Android Wear smartwatch made the biggest headlines at the Huawei booth. The new device aptly called “Watch” was presented for the first time. The round faced device is so new, that we …

Gear VR Consumer Version Coming This Year, Says Oculus

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s Gear VR (Samsung Brings B2B to Consumer Show) will be launched this year alongside the Galaxy Note 5 – or so implied John Carmack, CTO of Oculus VR. Carmack told Game Developers’ Conference …

InfoSonics’ Phablet is Low Cost

by Tom Allen

US-based Infosonics has stepped up a size with a 6″ phablet: the S6001 Cyprus. A mid-range product, the Cyprus features an IPS panel with 1280 x 720 resolution. It also has dual SIM slots, …

Tags:LATAM| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Phablets to Flood Smartphone Market, Claiming Over 20% of devices shipped by 2019

by Helen Vince

A new report from Juniper Research has found that over 400 million phablets will ship in 2019, a five-fold increase over the 138 million devices estimated to be shipped in 2015. While the iPhone 6 Plus …

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Phablets to Represent 20% of Smartphones by 2019

by Tom Allen

The smartphone market will be flooded by phablets (5.5″ – 6.9″ phones) in the future, says Juniper Research. The firm has predicted that more than 400 million such devices will be shipped in 2019: …

Samsung Display Backs OLED

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display (SD) had lots to show us, but also lots of “no photos” signs and staff were keen to really limit what we snapped. That was a disappointment, so we’ll have to stick …

Statista Sees Move Towards the Phablet

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to a statistical analysis by Statista, there was a jump in the popularity of the phablet during the holiday season. Statista looked at new device activations during the holiday season as defined by the time frame between …

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ZTE Brings Auto Focus to Smart Projectors

by Tom Allen

ZTE USA, a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation (Shenzhen, China), announced its second generation mobile smart projector. The Spro 2 is a follow-on unit to the initial smart projector announced by ZTE at CES 2014 and introduced by Sprint …

UltraHD Rumoured for Samsung’s Note 5

by Raverstead

A tip sent to Phone Arena claims that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5 phablet will have a 5.9″ OLED display with UltraHD resolution – equal to 746ppi. The display will enter productionby August 2015. Display …