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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

LG to Avoid Competition With April Launch

by Tom Allen

An LG source has told Pocket-Lint that the G4 smartphone will not be launched at MWC next month; instead, the company’s next flagship will not make an appearance until April. LG will use the …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Kyocera’s European Smartphone Survives Rugged Use

by Tom Allen

Marking the company’s entrance into the European mobile phone market, Kyocera’s Torque smartphone (KC-S701) is a rugged model meeting the MIL-STD-810 standard in 11 categories. These categories include dust, shocks, vibrations, humidity and immersion. …

Tags:Kyocera| Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Feature Phones Cannibalise Smartphones in Japan

by Tom Allen

According to data from MM Research Institute, shipments of flip-phones rose in Japan last year, for the first time in seven years, while smartphone shipments fell. Flip-phones were up 5.7% YoY, to 10.6 million, …

Seer Headset Brings 100º FOV to Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

Augmented reality headsets either try to be very subtle in appearance, as in the sunglasses styles, or try to provide a superior optical performance without looking at the aesthetic consequences. In this group are …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Wiko Goes Dual-SIM For First Qualcomm Phone

by Tom Allen

French company Wiko has unveiled the Ridge 4G: a 5″ smartphone with dual SIM slots and – new for Wiko – a Qualcomm processor. The 1.2GHz Snapdragon 410 processor is a quad-core device with …

Tags:Europe| France| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 08