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Sony has appointed Hiroki Totoki as the new president and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications, replacing Kunimasa Suzuki who has been made executive VP of Sony Entertainment. The announcement came as Sony released its …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Smartphones| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 44
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Qualcomm has spoken out in support of UltraHD smartphone screens. By mid- to late-2015, there will be several smartphones on the market using the format, the company believes. In an open document, Qualcomm argues …
Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Resolution| Smartphones| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 47
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The Iconia Talk S is Acer’s first 4G tablet. With support for voice calling and two SIM slots, it is intended to fully replace a smartphone. A quad-core Snapdragon processor runs Android on the …
Tags:Acer| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 49
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In an interview with The Nikkei newspaper (http://tinyurl.com/o5vybsm), Sony CFO Kenichiro Yoshida said that the company plans to rethink its smartphone strategy. While the recent finance results (see elsewhere in this issue) showed poor …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 44
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The Blackberry Classic smartphone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41) is now available for pre-order in the UK. It is listed for £290 ($455). The world’s thinnest tablet – Dell‘s Venue 8 7000 (Display …
Tags:BlackBerry| Dell| HTC| India| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets| toshiba| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Wearables
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Infoquest is now distributing its own Android phone brand, Bitmore, in Greece.
Tags:Android| Distributors| Greece| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 48
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Kyocera has taken on Ingram Micro Mobility to distribute its mobile phones in Latin America. The first will be the rugged Duraforce smartphone.
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Laibao Hi-Tech, a Chinese firm, currently produces glass-based touch panels. Next year, it has said that it will extend this production to film-based units for smartphones. The company is targeting monthly shipments of 2 …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Touch| Vol 21 - Issue 49
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Asian sources say that panel makers are expecting high demand for smartphone panels with 960 x 540, 800 x 480 and 854 x 480 resolutions next year. Chinese vendors seeking to improve their low-cost …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 48
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A journalist from Israeli website YNet recently visited LG’s phone factory in Korea, and appears to have spotted an unannounced model. The reporter wrote that it “seems like the G Flex…only smaller”. LG did …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 44
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HTC’s sales in October dropped 5.8% sequentially but were 5% higher year on year at NT$15.7 billion ($513.3 million). Last month’s results brought sales so far this year to NT$155.8 billion ($5.1 billion), down …
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Microsoft has dropped the Nokia branding from its Lumia smartphones, and now images of the first ‘Microsoft Lumia’ handset have appeared online. Posted on Chinese social network Weibo, the images show a device referred …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 44
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