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Android 2014 Share Eclipses Total 2014 Smartphone Market

by Tom Allen

Android and iOS maintained their dominance of the worldwide smartphone market in Q4’14, says IDC, and in fact managed to improve their market share by double digits. These two operating systems represented 96.3% of …

Samsung’s S6 Teaser Hints at Low Reflections

by Tom Allen

Samsung has shown two new teasers for the Galaxy S6, expected to be revealed at MWC next week. The new videos hint at low reflections and a bezel-less design. Find them at http://tinyurl.com/kbbytfv and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 09

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 09

by Tom Allen

Acer‘s H7550ST, introduced at CES (Acer Attempts to Kickstart Notebook Innovation), is now available in Europe. The projector costs €840. Asian sources have said that three major notebook vendors – Dell, HP and Lenovo …

Samsung to Acquire LoopPay

by Helen Vince

Samsung Electronics is to acquire LoopPay, a mobile wallet solutions provider that turns magnetic stripe readers into secure, contactless receivers. Under the terms of the deal, LoopPay will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung …

Tags:Apple| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 09

Snapdragon Rival Coming to LG

by Tom Allen

Phone Arena claims that LG is to back away from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chip in favour of its own device. The chip will be a quad-core ARM unit, with four Cortex-A72 cores and four …

IDC: Record Smartphones Cannot Keep European Mobiles From Stagnation

by Tom Allen

Total mobile shipments fell 5.2% YoY in Western Europe throughout 2014 – the second consecutive year that the market has shrunk. Total shipments reached 174.1 million units. Feature phones continued to plummet, with shipments …

Samsung to Use its $56 Billion Cash to Fund Growth

by Helen Vince

Samsung Electronics’ head of investor relations, Robert Yi, has said that the company plans to use its $56 billion cash to fund growth, which could include mergers and acquisitions. Speaking in an interview with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Park Implies Wireless Charging for S6

by Tom Allen

Seho Park, Samsung’s lead IT and mobile engineer, has written a blog post (http://tinyurl.com/nzvhwbz) on wireless charging – heavily implying that the technology will be a feature of the Galaxy S6. He writes that, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 08| Wireless Charging

NBA and Biglook360 Team up for VR Capture of All-Star Game

by Chris Chinnock

Thought the capture of 180° and 360° video content was a recent phenomenon driven by the capabilities of the Oculus Rift and Samsung GearVR? BigLook360 did its first production way back in 1999 and …

Tags:3D Cameras| Oculus Rift| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Is Your Smart TV Getting Too Smart?

by Aldo Cugnini

Be careful what you say and do in front of your TV – it just might be watching and listening to you – and blabbing to others about you. In a scenario that sounds …

Tags:Privacy| Samsung| Smart TV| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Early Thoughts from ISE 2015

by Bob Raikes

The ISE show was something of a triumph. The organisers had over 50,000 pre-registered visitors from all over Europe and the show was busy and very well attended. Although some exhibitors were grumpy about …

LEDs Rule the Roost at ISE

by Tom Allen

As I write this, ISE has just ended and the Display Monitor team is gearing up to bring you the event report. It is set to be a good one, and hopefully shorter than …