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Force Touch Coming to iPhone, Claims WSJ

by Tom Allen

According to the Wall Street Journal, the ‘Force Touch’ technology on the new Apple Watch and Macbook will also make an appearance on the next iPhone. Force Touch can distinguish between the pressure of …

HTC’s One E9 Appears as Upgrade to One M9

by Tom Allen

Last year, HTC offered a lower-priced version of the One M8 smartphone called the One E8; it sacrificed the metal body for plastic, as well as losing the duo camera. The HTC One E9, …

Tags:Android| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Asus Reveals More Information on New Phones, Convertibles and Projector

by Bob Raikes

Asus was highlighting the ZenFone 2 which was previewed at CES. The display is a 5.5″ IPS unit with FullHD resolution (a 1280 x 720 lower cost option is available), 400 cd/m² of brightness …

Archos Appoints Tech Data Mobile

by Helen Vince

Archos has signed a distribution deal with Tech Data Mobile in the Netherlands to sell its smartphones and connected devices.

Microsoft Files Lawsuit Against Kyocera

by Helen Vince

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Kyocera alleging that three of the Japanese company’s phones infringed seven Microsoft patents. According to a Reuters report, Microsoft has asked a federal judge in Seattle to impose …

Asus Aims to Triple Smartphone Shipments

by Tom Allen

Jonney Shih, chairman of Asus USA, has said that the company intends to triple its smartphone shipments this year. That would put the company’s shipments at 25 million units. Six new markets will be …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11| Worldwide

Samsung Unpacks Two New Phones

by Bob Raikes

Samsung held its “Unpacked 2015” event at the Barcelona Conference Centre on the evening before the show proper opened. It was a big event – with many partners and Samsung staff as well as …

Blackberry Shows new Smartphone and Prototype with Curved AMOLED Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

Blackberry released a new phone and showed a new smartphone prototype at MWC 2015, even though the company was not officially listed as an exhibitor. In a private event, the company showed that it …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Tianma Shows OLEDs and A-si Tablet Panels

by Bob Raikes

Tianma’s OLEDs Looked good and should be here by the end of 2015Tianma was one of only two LCD makers that had meeting rooms on the show floor (the other was Samsung) and had …

Silicon Image Supports MHL Notebook Application

by Bob Raikes

Silicon Image had a booth with several topics as it also housed SiBeam and MHL LLC. Andromium’s dock converts a smartphone into a notebookThe first product that we looked at was a new notebook …

Marvell Specified in Project Ara

by Bob Raikes

Marvell started by showing us the PXA1928 which is the application processor/SoC that is being used in Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone (The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation). The chip is based on …

x Series Intel Atom Processors Aim at Phones & Tablets

by Bob Raikes

Intel was, unsurprisingly, highlighting the Spectre X360 on its booth. The company was also talking about its support of EMBMS and Multicast video which it can support via its 7260 modem platform. It was …