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Samsung Joins the Mile High Club

by Tom Allen

Forget seatback screens; Samsung and Australian airline Qantas have launched a trial entertainment service using the former’s Gear VR headset. The headsets will be provided to customers in Sydney and Melbourne International First Lounges, as …

Samsung Takes Inspiration From Alcatel

by Tom Allen

Polish blog Android.com/pl claims that owners of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 will be able to use accessories to enhance the phone’s functionality. Similar to Alcatel’s Hero line, the site claims that the S6 will have …

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Samsung Profit Fell for First Time in 3 Years

by Helen Vince

Samsung warned earlier this month that its yearly profit would fall for the first time in three years, and this week its results were confirmed. For the year, Samsung posted a net profit of …

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Samsung Kicks Off Indonesian Production

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s smartphone production lines in Indonesia (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 33) have begun operation, according to Korea’s Edaily. The lines will produce phones specifically for the Indonesian market – about 900,000 per month.

Apple Leads Tablet Processors, while Qualcomm Dominates Phones

by Tom Allen

The global market for tablet application processors rose 16% YoY in Q3’14, to $1.4 billion, according to Strategy Analytics. Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung were the top tablet processor vendors in terms of revenue. Apple led with a …

Competitive Pressure Drives OLED Panel Pricing Down

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to an article published by Digitimes, Samsung’s OLED panel pricing for handsets is approaching LCD pricing levels and will reach parity in 2015. The report continues that in 2013 the price premium per Samsung …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Pricing| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Samsung Revamps Tab 4 for Education

by Tom Allen

Last year’s Galaxy Tab 4 tablets (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 14) have been revamped by Samsung to create the Tab 4 Education which was shown at BETT. Developed in partnership with Google, this …

Tags:BETT 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 05

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 5

by Tom Allen

Amazon held a one-day sale of the Fire Phone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25) in the UK last week, cutting the price of the 32GB model to £85 ($130) and the 64GB to £125 …

Samsung has no Interest in Buying BlackBerry

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to The Wall Street Journal Samsung is not interested in buying BlackBerry at this point in time. J.K. Shin, Samsung’s mobile phone business leader said that Samsung is talking to BlackBerry to extend their …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Samsung Drops Qualcomm

by Vanessa Browning

‘People with direct knowledge of the matter’, speaking to Bloomberg, have said that Samsung will not use Qualcomm processors in its upcoming Galaxy S6 smartphone. The company will instead use its own microprocessors, after testing …

Samsung Makes Ambitious Tizen Plans

by Vanessa Browning

Samsung plans to sell 30 million Tizen TVs this year, a source has told Korea’s Yonhap News agency. The figure represents as much as 50% of Samsung’s projected TV sales this year.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Tizen| TV (Television)| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Rumours Fly Before MWC

by Tom Allen

MWC is widely expected to serve as the launch platform for a number of tier one manufacturers’ flagship products this year, given their absence from the CES tradeshow. Rumours about Sony‘s Xperia Z4 have …