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Samsung Wins Patent Appeal

by Tom Allen

A federal appeals court in Washington has overturned a $120 million infringement ruling, made in Apple’s favour, against Samsung. The court said that Apple’s patents on the ‘slide-to-unlock’ feature and autocorrect were invalid, and …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Samsung| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Samsung S7 Display Shoot-Out

by Steve Sechrist

Samsung mobile, famous for its AMOLED displays has targeted high brightness and daylight readability in their newest Galaxy S7 flagship offerings. The S7 and Edge achieved an almost 25% brightness increase over last year’s …

Tags:AMOLED| Samsung| Shoot Outs| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Will Flagship Samsung S7 Sell?

by Steve Sechrist

In its yearly update, Samsung showed its flagship smartphone duo at the Mobile World Congress on Sunday including the Galaxy S7 and Edge (curved display) models. But beyond the extended hype, some say the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| MWC 2016| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Samsung Pay Continues Global Momentum in 2016

by Isaac Oburu

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., announced that Samsung Pay, the most accepted mobile payment service that works at the majority of merchants today, has reached a global milestone – about five million registered users processed …

Tags:Korea| Mobile Apps| Mobile Phones| Payment Systems| Samsung| USA

Samsung Chooses VR, Cameras and Gaming

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s launch event for its next phone, the Galaxy S7, was unusual. The stage was located in the middle of the room, with the press conference conducted ‘in the round’. It meant that the …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Samsung| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Detachables Sustain European Tablet Market

by Tom Allen

More than 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe in Q4’15: a 10.1% decline YoY, says IDC. In value terms, however, the decline was only 1.8% thanks to the rising penetration of detachable …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Asus| Convertible PCs| Europe| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Apple Faces First-Ever iPhone Fall

by Tom Allen

Global smartphone sales reached 403 million units in Q4’15, says Gartner: a 9.7% rise YoY. However, this was the slowest Q4 growth rate since 2008. Smartphone sales rose 14.4% YoY, to 1.4 billion units, …

Tags:Apple| Gartner| Huawei| iPhone| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 07| Worldwide| Xiaomi

Samsung Changes TVs in Europe

by Tom Allen

At its European Forum (Samsung Highlights CES Products in Monaco), Samsung showed off its newest LCD TVs, including the SUHD sets. These had some minor differences to the models shown at CES last month …

Tags:CES 2016| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Samsung Looks to Outdoor and LED

by Bob Raikes

We reported on a pre-ISE briefing by Samsung last week and so at ISE we spent most time looking at products (Samsung Heads for eBoards) with the company. We started by looking at outdoor …

Tags:ISE 2016| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Pen Input| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Transport| Vol 23 - Issue 06