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Blu Kickstarter is Cancelled

by Tom Allen

Blu, a high-concept ‘wearable smartphone’ – which would literally curve around the wrist, and uses a 5.3″ flexible OLED display – was due to have its first products shipping in May. This seemed very …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 14| Wearables

Sony Lowers Shipment Target in 2015

by Tom Allen

Sony Mobile plans to ship as many as 38 million smartphones in the 2015 fiscal year (April 2015 – March 2016), according to sources in the handset supply chain. The new figure is slightly …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 14

HTC Leak Shows Fingerprint Scaner

by Tom Allen

Credit: @Upleaks@Upleaks has tweeted images of what is apparently the HTC One M9+. The pictured phone has a fingerprint scanner and HTC’s Duo Camera, as well as front-facing speakers. Rumours put the screen size …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Apple Accepts Android

by Tom Allen

Apple has officially expanded its iPhone trade-in scheme to include Android models, as rumoured last month (Apple to Expand iPhone Trade-Ins…to Android?). Customers are able to trade in handsets from Samsung, Sony and others …

New Mid-Range Smartphone Series from LG Begins Global Launch

by Tom Allen

LG Electronics (LG) kicks off the global rollout of its new mid-range smartphone lineup starting in South America to be followed closely by Europe, Asia, Middle East Africa and North America. This premium but …

Tags:In-cell| LG Electronics (LGE)| Smartphones

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 14

by Tom Allen

Blackberry‘s Leap smartphone (Blackberry Shows new Smartphone and Prototype with Curved AMOLED Display) can now be pre-ordered in the UK, USA, France and Germany; residents of Canada have been told to ‘stay tuned’, so …

New HTC One M9 Widely Available In Stores Beginning April 10

by Helen Vince

HTC America Inc., a leader in mobile innovation, will begin selling its highly anticipated new flagship device, the HTC One® M9 that comes with the industry-leading UH OH™ Protection, online in the U.S. at …

Tags:HTC| Smartphones

Wistron to Manufacture iPhone 6C

by Tom Allen

The iPhone 6C (Three iPhone Models Claimed for 2015 Release) will be made by Wistron, say Asian sources. The phone will be released in the second half of 2015; it will have a 4″ …

Lenovo Splits Mobile Unit by Brand

by Helen Vince

Following the completion of the integration of Motorola Mobility (Lenovo Realigns Businesses Following Mergers), Lenovo Group has split its mobile business by brand. Vice president Zhang Hui will be responsible for global sales of …

Tags:Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Three iPhone Models Claimed for 2015 Release

by Tom Allen

Three different iPhones will be released this year, say sources in Asia: the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus and a 4″ model referred to as the iPhone 6C. All three will use LTPS displays, …

AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Releases Study on Young Driver Safety

by Norbert Hildebrand

The AAA Foundation of Traffic Safety has released a study on driving safety among teenage drivers in the US. The study takes into account the behavior of teenage drivers directly before an accident. The …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Non-PC Production Climbs at Inventec

by Tom Allen

Inventec aims to ship between 65 million and 70 million devices this year, the company said at its investors’ conference. The proportion of products that are not notebooks or desktop PCs will rise from …