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MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 36

by Tom Allen

The OnePlus 2 smartphone (OnePlus Plans Second Exclusive Handset) has been launched. However, in keeping with the company’s theme of exclusivity (and to garner more attention), potential customers must register online before being “invited” …

Samsung Scores Highly in Germany

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s UE40JU6550 curved UltraHD TV ranked first in Stiftung Warentest’s August TV results, with a rating of ‘good (2.0)’, out of eight different models from four manufacturers. TVs were rated on factors including image, …

Apple Storms into Wearables Market at Number Two

by Tom Allen

Following the launch of the Apple Watch, Apple entered the worldwide wearable market in second place in Q2’15 – just 4.4% behind market leader Fitbit. IDC says that 3.6 million Apple Watches were shipped …

TSMC Wins Ruling Against Former Executive

by Helen Vince

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) is reported to have won a lawsuit involving one of its former R&D executives, which claimed that the employee had passed details of TSMC’s 28-nanometer process technology to Samsung. Liang …

Design Flaw Breaks Note 5 Pen Detection

by Tom Allen

A design flaw has been uncovered in Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5, which can break the pen detection mechanism. Inserting the S Pen stylus the wrong way round (i.e. with the nib pointing out of …

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Try a Samsung Phone – For a Dollar

by Tom Allen

In a push to further compete with Apple (Samsung Beats Apple to Flagship Punch), Samsung is giving iPhone customers in the USA a chance to ‘test-drive’ its flagship Galaxy S6 Edge, S6 Edge+ or …

Samsung Approaches Toughpad Sizes

by Tom Allen

SamMobile has uncovered information pointing to a large new tablet from Samsung, code-named Tahoe. The SM-T670 is an 18.4″ Android 5.0-based device, with an LCD display, 1920 x 1080 resolution and an octa-core, 64-bit, …

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Korean Makers Slash TV Prices

by Tom Allen

Samsung is cutting the prices of its newest TVs – by up to thousands of dollars, in some cases. Shortly after the news was shared, LG responded with cuts of its own, to its …

Samsung Improves AMOLED Yet Again

by Tom Allen

The Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ are Samsung’s newest flagship phones (Samsung Beats Apple to Flagship Punch), and feature the company’s latest version of OLED technology. Ray Soneira of DisplayMate has analysed the …

Samsung, LG, Philips and Sony Recognised in EISA Awards

by Tom Allen

Winners of the 2015-2016 EISA awards, from the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), have been announced. The group named Philips’ 55PUS7600 as the ‘Best Buy TV’ winner; LG’s 65EG960V for ‘European Home Theatre …

EISA Mobile Winners are Varied

by Tom Allen

Winners of the 2015-2016 EISA awards, from the European Imaging and Sound Association, have been announced. In the mobile category, results were mixed, with no one company dominating. Huawei’s P8 took ‘European Consumer Smartphone’, …

Microsoft Enters Tablet Top Five

by Tom Allen

The tablet market in Western Europe stabilised in Q2, says IDC, with shipments falling 1.2% YoY to 7.5 million units. This was a significantly better result than the 10.5% shipment fall in Q1. The …