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Travel the world – stay connected! The EQB-510 by Casio EDIFICE

by Vanessa Browning

New look, smart functionality: the EQB-510, presented by EDIFICE, is already the second generation of watch that can communicate with smartphones – a new casually elegant interpretation of the successfully launched EQB-500. The EQB-510 …

Tags:Casio| Smartphones| Smartwatches

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

MWC 2015 is Upon Us

by Tom Allen

MWC is about to get underway in Barcelona, running from 2nd to 5th March. Here, we present a round-up of various companies and products that will be at what is being called the world’s …

Barcelona FC Fans Get Smartphone System for Tickets

by Helen Vince

Barcelona Football Club has introduced a new ticketing system which allows fans to gain access to matches at its Nou Camp Stadium using their smartphones.

Tags:Payment Systems| Smartphones

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 9

by Tom Allen

Asian sources have said that three major notebook vendors – Dell, HP and Lenovo – are expected to release models with on-cell touch in the first half of this year. The sources said that …

Means to Integrate a Touch ID Sensor into a Touchscreen Display

by Arthur Berman

The subject of this Display Daily article is a technology under development at Apple and in the news during the past few days. To put this development interest into context, recall that the iPhone …

Tags:Apple| Fingerprint Recognition| Patents| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 09

LG: No Change Coming in Smartphone Form Factor

by Tom Allen

Ken Hong, LG’s director of corporate communications, has told Trusted Reviews that smartphones will look the same for several years to come. Future technologies are too expensive and limiting for mass production, he said, …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Gartner: Refurbished Phones Will Impact New Sales

by Tom Allen

The global market for refurbished smartphones will climb to 120 million units by 2017, with an equivalent wholesale revenue of about $14 billion. Last year, the market reached 56 million units. According to Gartner, …

Toshiba Has LCD/OLED Module for Ara

by Tom Allen

Toshiba has shown off several modules for Google’s (originally Motorola’s) Project Ara modular smartphone (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 48). They include a display module for LCD and OLED screens, and connectivity, Wi-Fi and …

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 …

Neptune Reverses Watch/Phone Paradigm

by Tom Allen

Start-up Neptune has an interesting take on the smartphone/smartwatch combination, with its new product(s): the Neptune Duo. The Neptune Duo consists of two devices: the Neptune Hub (a smartwatch) and Neptune Pocket (a phone-style …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 08| Wearable Market

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