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by Bob Raikes
Sources in Taiwan’s supply chain have said that Mozilla is likely to work with Chinese vendors to produce Firefox-based smartphones. These phones will be sold in Africa through Millicom’s subsidiaries next year. Mozilla has …
Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 50
by Bob Raikes
Smartphones – The idea of a modular smartphone has been reported in the news for some time. Think Google’s Project Ara. Part of what makes the idea so attractive is that, should one part …
Tags:Recycling| Smartphones| Sustainability| Vol 22 - Issue 01
by Bob Raikes
Xiaomi has had tremendous success with their low cost high featured smartphone line, kicking Samsung from the smartphone throne in China earlier this year. As a Chinese vendor, they have something of a home …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 01| Xiaomi
by Raverstead
And finally… The age-old (ok, two-year-old) problem: you have a large new smartphone, but can’t reach the top of the screen. Worry no more thanks to Thanko of Japan, which is selling a ‘thumb …
Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Touch Interfaces| Vol 21 - Issue 44
by Helen Vince
Displays – At least, not as much as they used to. In our era, hardware – including displays – quickly becomes commoditized. That is not to say that you can’t obtain a temporary competitive advantage with …
Tags:Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 50
by Helen Vince
sBroadcast/Distribution – Ooyala has released the Global Video Index Q3 2014 which shows the increase of video viewing on global platforms. The index assessed video viewing by platform as a function of the length of …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Streaming Video| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 49
by Helen Vince
Smartphones – Forbes Magazine has named the Russian YotaPhone 2 as 2014’s “Most Disruptive Smartphone”. Really? I would have said it’s the iPhone 6, not because the iPhone is particularly interesting on the hardware side …
Tags:AMOLED| Awards| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 49| Yota Devices
by Helen Vince
Mobile Market – Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S5 sales are 40% down on projected sales with just 12M sold in July, that’s 4M units fewer sold in the first three months than the predecessor Galaxy S4 and the company …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 47
by Raverstead
Video of flexing on contact of glass from Corning
Tags:Corning| Glass| Smartphones
by Raverstead
A team of optical engineers at the the University of Connecticut has developed a way to securely display 3D images by scanning a QR code. The QR codes store compressed, encrypted images that can …
Tags:3D| 3D (Three Dimensions)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 46
by Raverstead
The Multiphone 5507 Duo is a 5″ dual-SIM smartphone, with cloud storage. As well as 8GB of internal storage, owners can access 200GB of Prestigio’s Multicloud storage for one year. Featuring a 3G connection …
Tags:Asbis (Prestigio)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 46
by Raverstead
Robert Yi, head of investor relations at Samsung, has said that the company will cut the number of smartphone models it offers by 25% – 30% next year. Speaking at the company’s Investor Forum …
Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 46
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